"Once the garden on the farm of Staart Van Paardeberg... after a period of neglect, two men, Mike Tibbs and Simon Field, have set about restoring it to its former glory ... there's a view of a mountain, whether it's the Groot Drakenstein, the Paarl mountains, or Table Mountain in the far distance...
Tibbs and Field moved to the farm Staart Van Paardeberg two years ago and set to work to restore the overgrown garden to its former glory. ... Tibbs is an expert orchid breeder... returned to his first love, growing orchids. ... spent three months on horseback in Indonesia searching for orchids... Tibbs... is a judge in three countries - Japan, the United States and South Africa. He's just completed his 10th book on them. He's working on his next one, on vanilla... On the farm, Tibbs has started the Exotic Plant Nursery, where row upon row of orchids grow, many collector's items. He breeds orchids, many for the export market" source : http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=342&fArticleId=3270672 ********** regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
