The Kuching Orchid Garden, located next to the Governor’s Astana, opposite the Kuching Waterfront, makes part of the city banks bloom with beauty. Located in a park, the Orchid Garden serves as one of the city’s major tourist attraction offering both horticultural and botanical interests. The orchid garden boasts a magnificent collection of 79,000 mother plants comprising 112 species and hybrids of orchid. The park is developed and managed by Kuching North City Hall.

The Kuching City Orchid Garden project is made up of Nursery and Garden displays. Most of the collections here are an exquisite variety of Borneo species consisting of epiphytic and terrestrial orchids, planted in the open, shaded or semi -shaded areas.

Among the famous Borneo Orchids found in the garden were the Lady’s Slipper (Paphiopedilum Sanderianum), Caelogyne Pandurata (a unique green and black-flowered orchid), Bulbophyllum Beccari (a species which releases an unfavourable smell), Vanda dearej (fragrant flower) and the Phalaenopsis Violacea commonly known as ‘Orchid Normah,’ which was declared the state flower of Sarawak on Aug 28, 1983. Orchid Normah – light green in colour and flushed with bright purple towards the base –is commonly used to produce many colourful star-shaped “novelty” hybrids.