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Three Ages of Cymbidium Suave

Three Ages of Cymbidium Suave

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 : of the latter day convicts

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...

Never say never : 1998

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...

My Bush House

My Bush House

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...

Botany

Find out more about orchid botany, including pollination, plant structure, parts of the flower, photosynthesis and more…

Back to Kroombit Tops : 1997

Back to Kroombit Tops : 1997

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...