"Dorcas Brogdon... her... greenhouse, manufactured by Turner, is covered with a diffuse fiberglass. The greenhouse is slightly sunken into the ground and sits on a block foundation, four rows deep.
The floor is 15 to 18 inches of gravel and the benches are wood slats. It is heated with propane and has a backup system in case the primary should fail. There is a cooling system - a swamp pad - that keeps the temperatures down in the summer. The greenhouse is 14 feet by 38 feet, and... space in it is used to accommodate the maximum number of plants. ... There are hanging baskets of plants that have baskets of plants hanging from them and another tier hanging from them, and plant-covered benches are under these. ... orchids mounted on bark that is then mounted on wire frames that rotate on hardware. ... There were... Paphiopedilum venustum from Sikkim and Nepal; Neofinetia with chains of complicated, fragrant white flowers from Japan; ... Aeranthes from Madagascar with 2-inch green flowers... Schoenorchis micrantha from Vietnam and Malaysia with 1/8-inch flowers mounted on a piece of cork to Grammatophyllum scriptum from the Philippines and New Guinea, whose flower spikes can tower well over 6 feet. ... stems of Laelia anceps shot out 3 feet from their mounts ending in... lavender and white flowers. A... velvety purple Princess Makasa vanda hung from the rafters. Dendrobium abberans with white flowers and a trace of fuchsia... Schoenorchis juncifolia... white Cattleya... Bob Betts... Brogdon became acquainted with orchids in 1977... Her first orchid was a cattleya... She quickly built up a collection, and because she was going back and forth to the Outer Banks for six months of the year, she would pack up all her plants and move them with her. She was moving close to 100 plants when her husband built her first lean-to greenhouse in 1994. The current greenhouse was built in 1997. She joined the Triad Orchid Society in 1995. ...The first plant she ever exhibited, a Paphiopedillum Green Up Time, won an award of merit" URL: http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354178058 photo (small) : http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urlmainpicture&blobheader=image/jpeg&blobkey=id&blobtable=MGImage&blobwhere=1173354177895&ssbinary=true&cachecontrol=2%3A0%3A0+*%2F*%2F* *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
