hey you orchid maniacs! - Orchid Board

elsombrero · #1 11-07-2006, 03:01 PM

To everyone who takes part in the forum, HOLA! I am a guy who loves orchids and is currently thinking about a little trip to central america (costa rica..maybe). If people have experiences of orchid collections (or even national parks which they particularly like) in that part of the world, would like to hear all about it.
xox elsombrero

cb977 · #2 11-07-2006, 03:03 PM

Hello and welcome to OrchidBoard

A trip like that sounds great! Where are you located? What do you grow? We'd all love to hear more and see some pictures

Marco · #3 11-07-2006, 03:08 PM

Hello elsombrero. Welcome to the forum

Ross · #4 11-07-2006, 04:14 PM

Welcome! Tell us a bit about youself. You never know, one of us might be interested in going with you

I mean, I am ready to leave in less than 10 days for a 2-week jaunt to the Big Island of Hawaii to see the gardens, orchids and volcanoes.

wallyworld · #5 11-07-2006, 06:06 PM

to the board!! Lucky you being down there!! It is always good to hear about other people's growing areas!

Gin · #6 11-07-2006, 07:27 PM

to the forum

..... Gin

justatypn · #7 11-07-2006, 09:50 PM

Aboard elsombrero, glad you joined the OB, a wealth of knowledge awaits you. Enjoy the

gallery. Where are you located and a road trip sounds wonderful, keep us imformed.

Tindomul · #8 11-07-2006, 10:20 PM

Hi elsombrero. I hope I can go to Costa Rica someday. Three reasons, Frogs, Orchids, and beaches!!!!

esungirl · #9 11-07-2006, 11:14 PM

Hey and welcome! There's nothing like seeing a orchid in it's natural habitat. Sounds like a great idea for those non-workaholics!

Erin

elsombrero · #10 11-08-2006, 09:02 AM

Thank you all for the warm welcome to your forum. More about me- I live in England, had a small mixed collection of orchids (but at the moment have very few, because moving around -two phalaenopsis (hybrids!) and a treasured seedling of Paph rothschildianum x sanderianum. So that is the list of my plants-but will hope to contribute photos to the forum as time goes on.
On the subject of photos: you take a digital photo, the file size might be somewhere around 2mb, but you want to reduce it to 30kb or 50kb for the web-what free software lets you do this?

The software with my camera does isn't much help with this. (The answer may be "just go and get photoshop elements, mate" but if there is a free one, so much the better)
Good growing to everyone, elsombrero