Dendrobium speciosum to me is the King of Orchids. I have loved the Australian bush all my life, and get away whenever I can for walks or fishing the rivers on the East Coast of New South Wales. During one of these walks with my brother in the late 70's we came across a plant of Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii. It was a massive clump that had fallen from a huge eucalypt and I removed 5 canes and brought them back to me in Sydney, it thrived and grew into a clump over 2m across.

Over the next 10 years I developed a love of all orchids and especially species orchids, from all over the world, which we grew in a bushhouse in our backyard.

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