Odp: international orchid experience?
Czesc !
I am from Poznan, I am sure you know it :)) but here is a small info for those who don`t know it : it is quite a big city, placed 300 km from the capital (Warsaw), 300km from Berlin, 300 km from the Baltic Sea and 300 km from the mountains. The story about your grandmother reciving an orchid is really unusual. If you could get some more iformation about that, you can write a nice story and publish it on one of the polish orchid sites. Here are some adresses : www.storczyki.org.pl , www.orchidee.prv.pl ( with a very nice gallery) and on-line shops like www.orchidarium.pl (also with a nice gallery) and www.orchidsklepik.pl From what I know, orchid growing was pretty popular among the well-off, before the II WW. There were orchid houses attached to the palaces. Some polish botanists discovered and described new species, eg. Jozef Warszewicz. Growing orchids at home is rather a new hobby, because obtaining them was very difficult, but there were some commercial growers, selling cut Cymbidiums or Paphs. greetings Martha Użytkownik J Fortuna w wiadomości do grup dyskusyjnych ... Czesc! I am Polish too, originally. Where in Poland are you from, Martha? I grew up in Ozarow Mazowiecki, a small town about an hour from Warsaw. I was not interested in orchids yet as a little girl when I lived in Poland, but my grandmother, who still lives in Poland and who now has two orchids (a Phal and a Cym) too, recalls that before the war she knew a man who had an orchid greenhouse in Poland (I think she said he got into orchids after visiting Argentina), and he once gave my grandmother (who was a young woman then) a lovely orchid plant that had a terrible stench to attract flies. :-) But she loved the orchid corsage he once gave her, which luckily did not stink. Joanna "samaki" wrote in message ... I have been a lurker for some time so I`ll use the opportunity to show up. I come from Poland, I am pretty new to orchids, I grow them for two years or so. I`ve got around thirty plants. It is relatively easy to buy unnamed hybrids of Phalaenopsis, Cymbidium and Paphiopedilum so I have a couple of them. As for the botanical orchids, there are about three vendors who organise imports from all around the world, I`ve bought from them nice Coelogyne and Oncidium Twinkle. There are some Orchids Societes in Poland also, and up to ten exhibitions each year. It is a great newsgroup with such nice people good growing Martha Użytkownik J Fortuna w wiadomości do grup dyskusyjnych .. . Reading the posts by Via (Hillevi P) from Sweden, I thought that it would be really interesting if residents of different countries (or different states) would like to share with us a brief review of orchid cultivation and/or wild orchids in the countries where you live in. I realize that we are very fortunate here in the US: we have many vendors of orchids who we can visit or order from without needing to import from abroad, the availability and affordability of orchids has been improving fast (one can buy orchids at local supermarkets, at least in the many major urban areas), orchid growing is quickly becoming a very popular hobby. I am always very interested to see glimpses of other cultures here. AusDigi has been posting photos of wild orchids growing in Australia on ABPO. We have a whole bunch of rgo'ers who come from all over the world, plus I am sure that many of the lurkers are from interesting places as well. Even within the US, the experience of growing orchids in Wisconsin is very different from growing in Florida. We have been encountering some of these cultural differences over time. I recall one poster assuming that a question referred to orchids grown in a greenhouse because where he came from people do not grow on windowsills (I believe it was in Australia, I will need to check archives again). I am always a bit jealous of those of you who can grow orchids outdoors. I think it would be interesting if you shared more with us what it is like in your nook of the world. Joanna |
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