Hi everyone my name is beck. Im from Far Northern Australia which is nice and tropical and great for growing orchids!! I only have around thirty orchids but love them!! We have some beautiful native orchids of which I have a few, the rest of my orchids are all different varieties. At the moment I am trying to discover beautiul ways of growing or mounting them which is not in plastic pots. I was browsing the net for this when I came across your site I'll look forward to joining in on your dicussions even if I am a bit of a rookie....
How ya going mate ! Welcome to OrchidBoard. Are you able to get orchids sent from other places? I know Australia has very tight quarantine laws. I got a few orchids in Singapore and they were confiscated by the customs at the airport in Brisbane. That sucked !
G'day mate! You'll really enjoy being here...it's a great group of people, willing to share their expertise, success stories and even the failures ! This is a great place to be for a rookie, as all of us were once rookies at one point in time and have learned a lot along the way. I've only been growing orchids for about a year and I've learned most of what I know from forums such as this, along with my local club meetings. Welcome and enjoy...
Welcome the board Beck. Yet another rookie to join the ranks. I was starting to feel like a minority here in orchid board. Now we newbies can gang up on the seasoned growers and ask away.
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