John, you sound just like one of us. I hasten to add that I am not Australian but do have many friends among the orchid community there. I often read in the obituary pages of the Miami Herald that so and so had a great collection of orchids that they "grew and loved". It almost always turns out that they have plants in their yard and on their patio that an orchid care service looks after on their weekly calls! Hardly a real orchid grower in my estimation. I have some wonderful lifelong friends in the English orchid business including Keith Andrew ( a most talented hybridizer ) and Brian Rittershausen of Burnham Nurseries. They are of course Brits and not Poms!
 
Andy Easton
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