ORCHIDS

Anne's great love is her garden and particularly her orchids and I freely admit that I know nothing about them so I hope all these below really ARE orchids. She has a large shade house filled with pot after pot of them and living where she does she is also able to have a few of the hardier ones, such as the Crucifix Orchid, growing almost wild outside in the garden beds. She has told me the names of all these orchids below but unfortunately I didn't write them down and since she isn't on the Internet I cannot send these photos to her so that she can name them for me again.

I am afraid that all you can do is drool over such a beautiful display.























I wasn't all that keen on going into the shade house because it is a haven for spiders, lizards and the occasional snake. Some of the spiders are bigger than the palm of your hand and like to hide underneath the pots, so in spite of her love of nature, there are times that, when Anne picks up a pot and balances it on her hand, it can suddenly be thrown into the air when she feels some movement between it and her hand !