Orchids
Does anyone else here grow orchids?
And I mean by growing devoting unconscionable amounts of time on what amounts to a foreign weed. Growing orchids is less a hobby and more a socially-acceptable obsession. There really IS no reasonable interest in orchids: you either think "Pretty flowers" or you eat, drink, breathe, sleep them. Not much of a middle ground here.
Were it not for the fact that all orchids are adult the moment they bloom, fiddling with their reproductive bits, even discreetly done in the privacy in one's home or greenhouse, might seem indecent. Ah, the pitfalls of being a hybridizer. I get funny looks all the time when I go into what orchids really do to reproduce.
I have the opinion that you don't have orchids--orchids have YOU, and somehow you live with THEIR foibles. But they make good houseguests, and they're worth having around. The flowers make it all worthwhile. No jewelry on earth can possibly compare.
And I mean by growing devoting unconscionable amounts of time on what amounts to a foreign weed. Growing orchids is less a hobby and more a socially-acceptable obsession. There really IS no reasonable interest in orchids: you either think "Pretty flowers" or you eat, drink, breathe, sleep them. Not much of a middle ground here.
Were it not for the fact that all orchids are adult the moment they bloom, fiddling with their reproductive bits, even discreetly done in the privacy in one's home or greenhouse, might seem indecent. Ah, the pitfalls of being a hybridizer. I get funny looks all the time when I go into what orchids really do to reproduce.
I have the opinion that you don't have orchids--orchids have YOU, and somehow you live with THEIR foibles. But they make good houseguests, and they're worth having around. The flowers make it all worthwhile. No jewelry on earth can possibly compare.