"... "Some people may not get past the big and showy stage," says grower Paul Gripp. ... "We don't do what's fashionable..." says the 75-year-old patriarch of Santa Barbara Orchid Estate...
"We're an orchid museum," son Parry says. This 50-year-old oasis, a block from the sea... "We have plants no one would buy for 20 years," says daughter Alice Gripp... "There has to be a chain of custody. You have to be willing to keep it even when it's not popular." ... The Gripp clan has offspring of plants dating from before 1900... The Gripps have specimens of Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Westonbirt'... sturdy, coveted parent to many a 20th-century hybrid... ... the tiger-striped Cymbidium tracyanum... the plant is a division from the 1890 specimen... Paul Gripp... arrived here as a young man in 1957. He came to help the estate's founder... Robert Chrisman... Gripp bought the estate from the man... 10 years later. His children, Parry and Alice, took over the five acres in the early 1990s. ... The cool-loving Cymbidium... blooms where temperatures drop 20 degrees [that is much !] between daytime and night." article URL : http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/home/stories/031607dnlivoldorchids.166d9e.html ************ Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
