"The Soroa Orchid Garden... Pinar del Rio province, presents a desolate scene after being battered by hurricane Gustav.
... harbored 700 species... destroyed by wind gusts that reached 300 kilometers an hour. The colonial house built by the previous owner Tomas Felipe Camacho also suffered the fury of Gustav, which reached category four in the Saffir Simpson scale. In spite of the devastation caused by the storm the main collection of orchids survived, assures... Ernesto Mujica, explaining that 400 varieties make up the main heritage of the locality. However... 60 percent of the species that existed in the open and highly valuable plants were lost. Now the priority is to care for the flowers in installations that lost their covering and suffer the effects of direct sunlight. Another objective is to rebuild the orchid garden constructed in 1943" URL : http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BCC0B720D-C727-419D-8FD4-4B47196B5500%7D)&language=EN **************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
