by Gerry Walsh | 13 Feb 2023 | Rock Lily Man
A beautiful Australian Native Orchid For as long as I know, I have chosen to growIn the realm of currawong and crow.At home in the trees living life as I pleaseAs I toss with the moss in the breeze. At peace here so long, where the Lyrebird’s songAnd the chant of the...
by Gerry Walsh | 13 Feb 2023 | Rock Lily Man
Terry was a guy I worked with for 7 years back in the 70s. He came from Liverpool. By that I mean Liverpool on the Mersey, back yonder in England. He would have done better to come from the western Sydney suburb of the same name. He left school in about 1974. He saw...
by Gerry Walsh | 13 Feb 2023 | Rock Lily Man
This is an event I wrote about in 1988. I still chuckle when I think about it to this day . . . In September 1988, Kevin Kiwi (not real sir name), a New Zealand native orchid grower, came over to Australia for the big conference held in the Sydney Domain. Kevin and I...
by Gerry Walsh | 13 Feb 2023 | Rock Lily Man
I picked him up in Mudgee, he was only six weeks old.Ten pups in the litter, a squirming fluffy fold.How to choose from the throng of faces pleading me to see?Nine laid down in the heat of the day, but one danced at my knee. I gave him the name of Barney . . . I chose...
by Gerry Walsh | 13 Feb 2023 | Rock Lily Man
When this website had been running for 20 months or so I came to a crossroad. I hadn’t put up pics of my own infrastructure. It simply didn’t occur to me. But now I must relent to the many requests and to many strange inquisitive looks when I reply to those queries...
