Beginner Gardening: Where did you get your love of gardening?, 1 by Calif_Sue

Calif_Sue wrote:
It's beautiful!

My Dad started collecting cymbidium about 10 years ago, had quite a collection. He just collected them though, my Mom always felt sorry for them and fertilized and watered them. He did divide them eventually when they got too crowded. We used to tease him and say they were boring, day in and day out, the same blooms for months and months, they never looked different. With a daylily, there was something new to go look at every day, or roses, always something different and changing. But after a while, seeing these cymbidiums in full bloom, you eventually get drawn in and there was this beautiful green one he had that I just fell in love with. A year before he got sick, he divided it and gave me half. I now treasure it and in the fall I repotted it and just last month noticed it's finally settled in enough and is sending up a bloom stalk. Cymbidiums now remind me of my Dad.

This was the first year I got it, new blooms yet to come.

This message was edited Feb 8, 2009 6:25 PM