A FEW YEARS ago, I stood completely enchanted at a sales booth at the Dresden (Germany) orchid show, admiring these fine, small plants with magnificent flowers. A member of the Dresden orchid group immediately brought me back to reality: cool greenhouse, air conditioning, almost no fertilizer, high humidity and, if a snail kills a plant in one night, simply put, very difficult. Returning home, I checked the internet to see what the different forums and groups write about their growing conditions. I had a small greenhouse, cultivating warm-growing paphiopedilums and phragmipediums, which I did not want to sacrifice. With my husband Erich, we got to work and a new greenhouse was built, divided into warm and temperate zones, and the old one became a cold house.
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