I'm getting very excited for this trip - due in no small part to the suggestions here. Thanks!
Naoki, those videos of Cypripediums are stunning! Tom is very lucky. Also, fun site. I of course had to read more articles.
Euplusia, I'm hoping to do a similar kind of trip. Im glad to hear that it's fairly safe!
Jean, I'm totally not going all by myself; the boyfriend is also going. But we are not taking a tour,so in that sense we will be by ourselves. I will take lots of pictures and hopefully have a blog on which to post them.
Kevin, I've only been growing for about 8 or 9 months and have inexpensive phal hybrids. I'm very much a beginner. I do like your suggestion to go see orchids in order to learn about them. I think a day trip to parkside orchids is in store. Plus there's an orchid show a few blocks from me in a few weeks - now I have to go! But please don't tell me to buy orchids; I have to make plant sitting as streamlined as possible, lol. When I get back next spring though, I think I should buy all of the orchids that I learn about between now and then! I can resist temptation for six months, right? And why did it not occur to me to make a long weekend in PR? Silly me; that's brilliant!
Philip, thanks for confirming the seasons! I'm travelling in January, February and March. I'm sorry- I must not have said that earlier! Perhaps toward the end of the trip some orchids will begin blooming? Even if we see one orchid in the wild, I'll feel exceeding lucky!
Silje, thank you for linking to your blog posts; I was able to read them through google translate (that led to some clumsy and funny sentences, but it worked)!
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