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03-12-2016, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Kalasin
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Hola from Northeast Thailand!
Hi airbuddy at the Orchid Board, I am suddenly getting much more appreciative and interested in botany and orchids and what not as the locals are ripping what little is left of the monsoon forest out by the roots around here, with calls from the village chief to make everything look neat and tidy. Nothing we can do really, the orchids and all the other life is being destroyed with even some gusto. It is really horribly sad.
But, my wife and I have the idea to really try and make a show case out our yard and get a kind of mini rainforest going for the purposes of showing people that having a rice paddy and a new pick up truck and a village that has no trees and plants to make it look untidy is not where its at. So that is the upside, perhaps we can all learn more about orchids, mosses, epiphytes etc. and be part of the solution to all of the forest burning that seems to be a fashion here in Southeast Asia with the destruction of Borneo, Sumatra and the horrific fires in Thailand's north as well.
On the plus side, there seem to be many places here to buy all kinds of wonderful plants and orchids to take in and make part of a massive domestic garden.
Hope to learn more about orchids that do well in the very hot temperatures we have here 35-42 degrees celsius during the hot season. I am really only realistically able to grow outdoors.
I was also recently at the huge indoor cloud forest in Singapore and that sparked my intrest in replicating natural spaces. Though, in our case, obviously it is too hot to have a small outdoor cloud forest type garden, unless there are some tricks I've yet to learn. Would like to travel to Malaysia Mayanmar or Indonesia or other places and check out the orchid and epiphytes, I think I will be doing that soon, and maybe even Thailand if all the forests for epiphytes are not completely gone yet.
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03-12-2016, 09:25 PM
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03-12-2016, 09:45 PM
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Welcome to Orchid Board!
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03-13-2016, 03:53 AM
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03-13-2016, 12:46 PM
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Hello and welcome to the board. I'm so sorry to here about your rain forests. I hope you and your wife can get a nice yard full of orchids and other plants.
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04-16-2016, 08:07 AM
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Sorry for the late welcome, but welcome to Orchid Board  |
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