The guest designer of the New York Botanical Garden’s 2026 Orchid Show spent his boyhood wanting to become Batman. Now he aspires to be a different superhero: Mr. Flower Fantastic.

“I guess my focus is about saving nature,” he said, “which ultimately, I think, saves people.”

Mr. Flower Fantastic — it’s his nom de bloom — spoke with me last week in the garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a steamy, sunny refuge from the Bronx’s surrounding Arctic air. He and a team were installing “The Orchid Show: Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle,” an urban landscape overrun by wild delights. Opening on Saturday and running through April 26, the exhibition reflects the two Jamaicas that have influenced its designer: Jamaica, Queens, where he grew up, and Jamaica, the island, his mother’s ancestral home.

Inside, familiar New York structures sport tropical twists. Instead of ivy, lush layers of pink, white and fuchsia Phalaenopsis — the common but extremely varied moth orchid — cascade down a brownstone facade. A dumpster crammed with trash bags also overflows with blossoms. Mock subway stops — Orchid Avenue and Desert Avenue — appear, as well as a flower-filled newsstand where visitors can pick up instructions on orchid care.

“There’s a sort of uncanny way that he enlivens the objects that we surround ourselves with,” said Joanna L. Groarke, the garden’s vice president for exhibitions and programming. “The things we collect, like sneakers, or the things we see every day, like a hydrant, a fire hydrant that’s been opened up to cool off in the summertime. And he’s got this really creative way of bringing those to life, using flowers.”

MFF, as he likes to be called, has created city scenes that are recognizable and yet, like him, unidentifiable. He preserves his anonymity with a respirator mask that also keeps his beloved medium from aggravating his severe pollen allergy.

Anonymity is “honestly the most authentic way to share my work,” he said, “and to share it with an open heart, freely, without being criticized for being anyone I am or anyone I’m not.”