GardenBanter.co.uk - Field Trip!

Steve wrote:
Three of us from the "Adirondack Orchid Society" have planned a field
trip to Piping Rock Orchids. http://www.pipingrockorchids.com/
You may have seen their big ad in Orchids magazine offering their first
Phrag kovachii flasks plus seedlings and flasks of kovachii hybrids.
None of us are big spenders, so I assume there will be no kovachii
returning to the Adirondacks this time.
More than likely, I will not be buying anything. My collection is a
little heavy in the slipper department as it is. I WILL keep my eyes
open for a plant that might make a worthy souvenir of the trip. If
nothing grabs me, I'll leave the buying to the other two.
Time for bed. I start the first leg of the trip in about 8 hours. I'll
let you know how it goes.

Steve

I did go today. We ended up staying there for 3 hours. Glen Decker
talked to us just about the whole time and he didn't show any signs of
getting tired of us being there. I don't think he gets any visitors on
an average day. We were certainly the only ones for the hours we were
there. The place is not set up to attract visitors; in fact, it is very
well hidden. No sign by the road and the greenhouse is not visible to
the outside world at all. Only the number 2270 on the mailbox across the
road from the gravel driveway tells you that you are at the right place.
I have now laid my eyes on hundreds of Phrag kovachii and kovachii
hybrid seedlings. Nothing with kovachii genes is in the price range I
allow myself, but I did come home with 2 nice, small, seedlings of other
interesting crosses:
Phrag. Andean Fire 'Michelle Lee' AM/AOS X Phrag. Sorcerer's Apprentice
4N 'Fantastic' = Phrag. Sorcerer's Fire
and
Phrag. Ashley Wilkes (Eric Young x warscewiczianum)

I'll have to wait a couple of years to see how the flowers turn out, but
that's the way I usually do things.

I have pictures. I'll have to get them ready and post them on ABPO. That
could happen as soon as tomorrow. It depends on what else demands my
attention.

Steve