I will like to share and hear how your love for Orchids started it?

[camille1585]

I too love reading all these stories about the beginnings of orchidaholic-ness! Funny to see how a lot of relationships start with 1 orchid that was bought for the heck of it.

I got my first orchid in spring 2006. I was studying horticulture and my school would sell plants in a section of one of the greenhouses. I got a pink Cymbidium which made several beautiful spikes. After that I didn't think much more about orchids for another 2 years, which is when I got a phal (an equestris hybrid) for the heck of it. A friend saw the plant and tore a bulb off an Onc she had (both of us didn't even know much about it other than it was an orchid).

So I found myself with this nearly rootless single bulb and in my search for information on what to do with the thing, I landed on Orchidboard. And THAT is what truely started the orchid addiction! I now have 50 or so orchids, and I'm preparing an order for another 5-6 from a German grower.

The Cym and Phal are still alive and blooming, but the Onc bulb (as could be expected) died.

[alsorchids]

I came to love orchids after years of out door flower gardens in California and New Mexico. Becoming a blooming idiot was easy for me. Some five or six years ago I purchased Calla Lilly bulbs available at a garden center and have successfully raised them since. Then I happened to look on line and saw the beauty in tropical plants, especially true blue bloomers. Raised most of those successfully also, when someone close to me said "with all the care your giving these plants you might as well raise orchids". I had the greenhouse, so I did research on orchid kinds/care and started with mail order Oncidiums, which I still have. From there it was off to the races! Love researching and buying on line.