Weather conditions were troublesome for weeks as parts of the country witnessed the worst floods in decades during February. But, the weather inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory is positively warm and humid too.

Orchids significantly need the heat and moisture for their survival. Orchids are valuable flowers, as two of the top seven most expensive flowers belong to orchids, said Mother Nature Network.

Orchids are now providing a signal to Britons that this frightful weather, with record rainfall in January, will get over soon. The annual Orchid Festival was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and it ended on March 9. The ornate blossoms are providing gardeners around the world a reason to be happy as better days seem to be near.

The display at the month-long orchid extravaganza highlighted the grit of Victorian-era orchid hunters. It is not an easy task for orchid hunters to bring exotic plants from places like Papua New Guinea and the Amazon basin back to London, as it takes months or even years of dangerous expeditions.

Conservatory manager Nick Johnson said it must have been very dangerous during Victorian times. Few months have to be spent on sea voyage to reach these places. They have to hire 40 or 50 people to carry equipment into the field through a territory that is extremely dangerous. They lose a lot of people during in their stint.

Orchids are collected from the Andes and the plants get spoiled even before they are loaded onto ships, leading to hard work of weeks and weeks to go in vain.

"This British obsession with orchids has lasted 150 years now," Johnson said. "We try to do a little education but at the same time have a little fun and add a bit of color to peoples' lives this time of year", said Johnson.