Hybridizing Is in His Blood: For H.R Norton, the Major Allure of Orchids Has Been the Opportunity for Creativity

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IT ALL STARTED IN 1976 WHEN KATH-erine Norton decided to go to her local North Carolina orchid show. Not an orchid grower, she decided to attend the show simply because, "I wanted some orchids," she says. Katherine joined the American Orchid Society that day. She also found the orchids she wanted and brought home some blooming cattleyas to her husband, H.R Norton. "A week later," says daughter Carol Campbell, "they had seed pods hanging on them." The hybridizing bug had bitten H.P.