Walking into a Jacksonville Orchid Society meeting feels a bit like stepping into a greenhouse where the plants have personalities and the growers know every quirk by heart. The room tends to hum with that soft, excited chatter only orchid people understand—someone showing off a Cattleya that finally bloomed after two stubborn years, someone else lamenting a Phalaenopsis that “should have spiked by now, honestly,” and a couple of new faces trying to decode why half the plants on the show table look impossibly perfect.