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...
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...
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...
A tribute to my mate Barney…
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...
The following is an extract from an article I wrote 25 years ago. It was in the ANOS Sydney Group Bulletin, The Orchidophile. It demonstrates well the way I was hooked on the Australian bush and the world of native orchids. Not many people make trips like this any...
Note: These words were written in 1989 but they are still relevant in 2018. Enjoy. WHEN I first joined Sydney Group in 1982, one of the first species I remember seeing in the flesh for the first time was D. schneiderae. There were three or four benched and, being...
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I wrote this story way back in 1997. It’s a summary of a trip we made to Kroombit way back then. It represents a typical sort of an escapade. By 2013 I had been to The Tops on 13 trips. The pics are scanned from old slides. A bit scrappy I guess. My wife refuses to...
Note: This article was written before the Dockrillia genus was created to accommodate the terete members of the Dendrobium genus. At this time, 2018, both Dendrobium and Dockrillia are both used by various botanists when referring to section Rhizobium members of the...