terrestrial_man
Well-Known Member
I am Jerry Copeland and live in Santa Maria, California.
My interests in orchids really began with an opportunity that Mr. Paul Gripp, of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estates, gave me back in 1968 to work for his company. Prior to that my only experience with orchids was in growing Goodyera pubescens in what was called a Partridge Berry Bowl that I had purchased from Arthur Eames Allgrove in the NE USA. I really had little knowledge of orchids at the time of my hiring but I did know how to grow plants as I was growing many, mostly native California species.
While my first year of employment was spent repotting oodles and oodles of cymbidiums I was given the charge of cultivating all the non-cymbidium genera at SBOE. To say I was staggered is an understatement but it was one challenge that I not only looked forward to mastering but enjoyed the opportunity to understand how the many different genera needed to be grown. While I loved the cats and less so the phallys, and hated the dendrobium nobiles!!! I really enjoyed the cool house with the paphs, the lycastes and the cool growing odontoglossums.
Since those few years so many years ago I have been just maintaining a small home made greenhouse with tropical plants and some orchids, notably Ludisia, paphs, phrags, and lycastes. However I found that I enjoy writing and have learned html and have set up a website in which I have posted various journals in varying stages of growth that include one on repotting Paphiopedilum delenatii, a sheet on Lycaste, and just lately a journal on Jewel Orchids in addition to other journals posted or to be so.
You can visit me at:
http://www.jsionline.freeservers.com/
My primary interest at this time are in phrags besides the lycastes and the jewel orchids. Looks like I will have to do up a journal on my phrags!
My interests in orchids really began with an opportunity that Mr. Paul Gripp, of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estates, gave me back in 1968 to work for his company. Prior to that my only experience with orchids was in growing Goodyera pubescens in what was called a Partridge Berry Bowl that I had purchased from Arthur Eames Allgrove in the NE USA. I really had little knowledge of orchids at the time of my hiring but I did know how to grow plants as I was growing many, mostly native California species.
While my first year of employment was spent repotting oodles and oodles of cymbidiums I was given the charge of cultivating all the non-cymbidium genera at SBOE. To say I was staggered is an understatement but it was one challenge that I not only looked forward to mastering but enjoyed the opportunity to understand how the many different genera needed to be grown. While I loved the cats and less so the phallys, and hated the dendrobium nobiles!!! I really enjoyed the cool house with the paphs, the lycastes and the cool growing odontoglossums.
Since those few years so many years ago I have been just maintaining a small home made greenhouse with tropical plants and some orchids, notably Ludisia, paphs, phrags, and lycastes. However I found that I enjoy writing and have learned html and have set up a website in which I have posted various journals in varying stages of growth that include one on repotting Paphiopedilum delenatii, a sheet on Lycaste, and just lately a journal on Jewel Orchids in addition to other journals posted or to be so.
You can visit me at:
http://www.jsionline.freeservers.com/
My primary interest at this time are in phrags besides the lycastes and the jewel orchids. Looks like I will have to do up a journal on my phrags!