"63rd annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show... Speaking...
Eric Hansen, who has spent more than 20 years documenting... elements of the orchid world for National Geographic and Outside magazines and for books such as... "Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust and Lunacy." Hansen's cast of nonfiction characters includes a collector who did jail time for orchid smuggling and a Santa Barbara grower who carries a gun while tending his plants... grower-collector Lance Birk, whose "The Last Orchid Hunter" details his successful search for the exceedingly rare Laelia orchid [which one(s) ?] in Brazil. (Successful... until it was stolen from him by another plant hunter.) ... former UC Irvine ecology professor Harold Koopowitz... an expert on the effects of deforestation on wild orchids... Koopowitz's newly published "Tropical Slipper Orchids: Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium Species and Hybrids." ... orchid-themed art... oil paintings by... Ralph Waterhouse... photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe." URL : http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/feb/28/the-subject-is-orchids/ photo : [caption : "Paphiopedilum Krull's Emerald Meadows"] http://media.venturacountystar.com/vcs/content/img/photos/2008/02/27/20080227-151933-pic-63260697_t600.jpg ************* Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
