READ THIS BOOK!!!
Well written and highly entertaining. Orchid Fever is not just a book for orchid lovers (like me) but anyone who is interested in conservation, horticulture, travel, international trade or just likes to find out how the real world operates. Overall a wonderful account of people passionate about plants and bureaucratic insanity.
orchids are addictive
This is a very interesting book for any plant lover especially those who try to grow orchids. Makes you think twice, maybe three times, about what government can do to the environment and people who really care. Don't trust any government to do the right thing.
Woulda been 5 but it was too short.
It has taken me 10 years, but I am now able to buy an orchid plant at Long's, care for it, repot it, and have it bloom more than once under my control and responsibility. I am that much an amateur orchid enthusiast, no foreign travel, no cloning, no $1000 species for me. Certainly no show winners. But orchids thrill me. I have 14 plants (I just bought another one: dayglo green with fuscia petals)all of which are in rather good health. Some have little nubs of flower stems on them.
This wonderful book has inspired me. It has entertained me, and made me laugh too ("What's dog food?"). I have learned so much, and I now feel the depth and tradition and botanical (cellular, even) heritage that motivates and directs the DNA, hypothalamus, and higher-functioning regions of the brain of the orchid-lover. This book and its stories have added a romance and knowledge to my love and care of my plants.
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