For a very, very long time I had only concentrated on growing one genus of orchids: Paphiopedilum, but then I kind of made some room for Phragmipedium. Other type of orchids were just not my cup of tea you see, and some of the reasons were quite trivial, cattleyas because I couldn't get them to bloom, phalaeonopsis, well because everyone had them and they just lost the wow factor for me. There were other like cycnodes, which I completely don't like and i find the whole rest routine a massive pain in my spine. And also oncidium because the ones available near me were just meh ugly, and my poor Aliceara was having a hard non blooming time. But then we moved, to a nicer house, with more room. In the January of this year i made a super special effort to get the cattleya to bloom because it was a gift from my other half so i decided I really have to. The results were spectacular, so I got adventurous. As I said, I made some room for phragmipedium. Suddenly I found an oncidium
Spending my free time in mastering the difficult (let's be honest) art of growing orchids, as well as trying to share my knowledge to people around me in the United Kingdom and further.