For those who are interested, I have three blogs in which I post a lot more pictures than I post here. If you are interested, please have a look. The first blog highlights the tropical orchids I grow: orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/ I am no longer posting on this blog since I am no longer growing t…

3 years ago / 2 584 visits / 4 comments / 6 people like

I have been growing orchids for nearly 35 years, longer than I've been hunting and photographing native orchids. I've grown them outdoors, in a small greenhouse and on windowsills, but mostly in a homemade wardian case or orchidarium. I've had two of these cases, the first built many years ago when…

7 years ago / 6 502 visits / 3 comments / 5 people like

I've grown tropical orchids for many years, mostly cool-growing miniature orchids, but in recent years have become interested in native orchids as well. We live in western Washington State and have in the state a total of 42 native orchids including varieties. Most of these we have seen including so…

7 years ago / 1 866 visits / 4 people like

I haven't been around for almost three months and several of you have asked whether I'm okay and whether I'm still active on Ipernity. Here's what's been happening. Back on March 22 I went in to emergency at the local hospital with what I thought and the doctors first thought was appendicitis. An ab…

7 years ago / 1 500 visits / 37 comments / 10 people like