Long time no see!

[jai_star]

Originally Posted by SunnySmiles

Hi fellow orchid geeks!

I am logging in for the first time since 2021 (gasp!) and thought it a good opportunity to reintroduce myself... I wasn't super active back then, I was training as a horticulturist at the time and really only just starting out with orchids.
Fast forward to this year and I am part of the team looking after quite a sizeable orchid collection (roundabout 4.000 plants) in a botanic garden.
I am somewhat more experienced now but at the same time very much still learning! It's a big orchidaceous world out there

Looking forward to some fun and enlightening conversations with you all!

Love from London

Svenja

I have recently reignited my love with orchids and returned to this site

Sound like an amazing job you have theire please do share some photos of the grow space and those beautiful orchids in your part of the world

[SunnySmiles]

Thank you all! Nice to be back

Originally Posted by jai_star

I have recently reignited my love with orchids and returned to this site

Sound like an amazing job you have theire please do share some photos of the grow space and those beautiful orchids in your part of the world

I work in Kew Gardens here in London, in the Orchid Unit of the Tropical Nursery where basially all of our tender back-up collections are kept (i.e. everything that is not on permanent display in the public glasshouses). We are a small team looking after 5 different climatic zones, cool through to warm growing. There are a few strong points taxonomically speaking: big Bulbophyllum collections, Dendrobium, Coelogyne, Maxillaria - but really there is a mix and match of a whole lot of different things. I mainly look after thw intermediate-warm growers but help out here and there with everything else too!
We don't (currently) have good photos of the nursery collections, which is a shame, and hopefully at some point in the future we'll put some up to share with the wider world. For the moment best I can do is to dig through my own pics and post some on here in a few days!

Svenja