Hello from (a surprisingly sunny) England!

[Paddy]

So hello everyone, I am Paddy, age 17, i live in England and i am studding Biology, Chemistry, Physics and maths at A-level (if that means anything to any non English members). As with everyone else on this forum I like my orchids and currently have a meager 9 in my collection (but you have to start somewhere!). I was first bit by the orchid bug back in 2009 when I did some school work experience in the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and saw their amazing labs for Epigenetics of plants, to the orchid laboratory where they breed only orchids. As you can imagine this was an amazing experience (not knowing anything about orchids) seeing rooms dedicated to the propagation of orchids, some of which had only two plants of the species left on this planet! This inspired me to buy my own orchid at there shop and that was where it started. But then things took a turn for the worse! Exams and other events meant that I forgot about what i had seen and only picked up one or two plants. But now I am back! I recently have added four plants to my collection, all of which I picked up from the supermarket I work at (don't kill me i know how some people feel about this source of plants!) for a grand total of £12 which include to Phals, one Cymbidium and one Miltoniopsis. So that is me and I hope to hear from you all and hopefully learn a lot (and maybe one day teach someone something!) Cheers!