"Weyman Bussey... the first orchid he saw blooming in the wild. ... 1966, when he was 12 years old... in south Florida...
"When I saw my first Encyclia tampense, commonly called the butterfly orchid... he says. "It was the beginning of the last 39 years of orchid addiction." ... Bussey lives in Houston... he specializes in showy Mexican orchids... He's founded companies that commercially grow orchids on two continents... He travels the world giving programs on their care... After seeing that initial butterfly orchid, Bussey... learned an elderly woman had an orchid-filled greenhouse near his childhood church, he skipped religious services for the next five years so he could visit her. Soon he found a greenhouse to grow his own... he was only a ninth-grader. In 1972, he attended the World Orchid Conference in [Medellin] Colombia where he fell in love with the country and its plants. He went there to live and work with orchids, eventually meeting his current wife. He's also studied and worked with orchids in California. When he's not working with or hunting orchids in Mexico, he teaches school." URL : http://www.dailypress.com/features/home/garden/dp-orchidsnov10,0,256697.story?coll=dp-entertainment-utility photos : 1) [caption : "... Acineta hagsateri... inhabits cool humid pine-oak forests above 4000 feet in the southern Sierra Madre del Sur area of Mexico." http://www.dailypress.com/media/photo/2006-11/26354457.jpg 2) [upside down]: [caption : "Stanhopea tigrina... fragrant Mexican orchid with flowers up to 8 inches across." http://www.dailypress.com/media/photo/2006-11/26354458.jpg 3) [caption : "Erycina echinata is found rarely in the semi-arid lowlands of the Pacific coast of Mexico"] http://www.dailypress.com/media/photo/2006-11/26354459.jpg 4) [caption : "Weyman Bussey (and...)"] http://www.dailypress.com/media/photo/2006-11/26354455.jpg *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
