"Alice... Parry Gripp... careers in the family business on More Mesa the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate...
looking forward to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the nursery this summer. Alice... a graduate degree in geology, and Parry... in English literature... their father Paul and their mother Anne, owned and ran the orchid nursery for almost 30 years. Before buying the business in 1967, Paul Gripp was manager for Robert Chrisman, who established it in 1957. Chrisman retired from the insurance business and moved his orchid collection to the Goleta Valley, bringing along Gripp, who worked as his gardener while attending college. Chrisman reportedly discovered his first orchid in a Thrifty Drug Store in Beverly Hills, and that same orchid... Laelia anceps, has the place of honor on a piece of giant Sequoia at the nursery today. Alice and Parry Gripp... took over several years ago... their dad... still helps out on a volunteer basis. ... Parry is the photographer, webmaster and head of shipping... Alice is bookkeeper and director of customer relations... the Gripps ship primarily to collectors... They also sell and ship cut flowers. ... The Gripps, with eight to 10 full-time employees, specialize in outdoor temperature-tolerant varieties including dendrobiums, cymbidiums, laelia anceps, stanhopeas and cattleya hybrids." article URL : http://www.goletavalleyvoice.com/cgi-bin/business/readarticle.cgi?article=641 ************** regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
