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I have a confession to make - I am a serial hoarder. I like collecting things, be it teddy bears, good books, good watches, fountain pens etc. Among my favourite hobbies is collecting orchids. I still maintain 2 large collections in 2 countries, but latel...  

I honestly never viewed or appreciated orchids or any other botanical species in this way until your post. So thank you for opening my eyes to this beauty.

Really thank you for reading this post. I wish I could share some of these orchids with you. Thing about orchids (they can be shared), thing about watches (they cannot be divided and shared). There are many beautiful orchids worldwide, for example in Euro... 

Caledenia species, from Blue Mountains Sydney Caledenia species, from the lower reaches of Blue Mountains Pterostylis species, from the borders of Lake Parramata, Sydney Dendrobium speciosum - the rock lilly. This orchid is found on rocky areas near fores...  

as a man of science I’ve always appreciated the depth and breadth of what nature (including our own human species) can show us of true beauty. I’ve been trying to highlight the existence of this organic beauty that is all around us for my kids, and this a... 

One can push kids to an intended direction by seeding thoughts and ideas in their imagination. I think if I did not get amazed by orchids, I could have continued playing videogames till no end. Perhaps if there was watchmaking in Singapore, I may have bee... 

Here’s one rare orchid for u Nico. Dendrobium falcorostrum. It grows exclusively on Antarctic beech on highland forests in NSW. The tree it grows on is an ancient type of beech, theorized to be on the Australian continent even before it split off from the...  

Cheers Marc

If you drill down, almost everyone has an interesting and personal story to tell... and yet I can still be surprised by a pastime such as this... wonders of nature indeed. Lovely photos as well as a very interesting tale. Casey .

wish you a great week!

Many wonders there. I think it is great climate to grow exotic plants there.

Memories of a time gone by

I got into this hobby as a kid. I used to get addicted to videogames and my dad used to try to wean me off the videogames. And so, he bought me an orchid book, and let me have a small area in the balcony to grow orchids. He was right - the videogame addic... 

for me as this is far beyonds what my shallow knowledge of orchids, which i get to know when I was a kid when my dad grow a few at home....all the normal stuff but his tale about watches which stuck me into this WISdom abyss thank you to enlighten me

hope you adored the flowers. 🌸 🌺 🌼 💐

your orchids and my little critters, are pretty similar to one another. There's in infinite variety of them, out there. One just has to go look...

It’s a beautiful world filled with marvels of nature. Have a great week Sergio.

No talents, just hyperactive and need to control the overactivity with activities

have reopened. There are limitations, to be sure, but with the vaccine I.D. cards being issued by individual countries (ahead of the Pan European one) it's possible to fly and not having to be quarantened on arrival