Hello From Queensland Australia.

[kg5]

One of my jobs as a child was working at the Cymbidium Nursery down the road. That is the the best part of 50 years ago. Good memories from my home town Sydney.

Started full time work at 14 as a bricklayer- stone mason and in the process did a lot of work with the hard structure of landscaping. Cut a lot of sandstone from a quarry.

My wife and myself spent a lot of time looking for orchids in the Royal National Park south of Sydney. Sadly many of these beautiful tree orchid were hacked out of the trees. They could of taken a back bulb but no they had to take all of them. Some of these orchids were the size of a car boot. Very sad when you find a friend that has been stolen.

So landscaping took me into horticulture and I got a diploma in horticulture. Worked with my tools for 6 years and went into multidisciplinary supervisory horticulture for ten years. Had the privileged of putting together a Parks & Recreation department just south of Brisbane. At the end of doing the hard yards it lost the challenge or more to the point I had a total gut full of horticulture people and walked away.

20 years later our home of 26 years is on one of the Southern Morton Bay Islands Brisbane and is going to get a neighbour. Which is going to be an eye sore. So I am building a bush house and hot house for orchids on the SE side of our house to the fence line. It will be 14m x 4m or 45feet x 13feet. The orchid houses will have full sun for 9 months of the year.

So I am interested in a lot of different orchids in our growing area. Top of the list is Dendrobium in the hot house & Cattleya's in the 70% shade house. So the journey begins!

Great Forum and Hello To All! kg5