There are some wild orchids that live way high on rocky outcrops on the mountains. They grow in clumps, and have white flowers. Another kind is a sort of dendrobium sort, I don't know the name. It has small greenish flowers, a very rough(?) stem and climbs up tree trunks.
There's a hardware store with a garden section, and they stock orchids, I'll have to ask where from. There's an active Orchid Society with monthly meetings, and a nice show every year over President's birthdays holiday, used to be George Washington's birthday, Feb. 22.
Ten years ago I got all carried away with orchids, now I'm calling myself a recovering orchid owner!
Orchids can be mail ordered from a lot of places, Puerto Rico, Florida, and others.
I remember Andros in the Bahamas, gorgeous tall orchids with nice clumps of small purple blooms, terrestial, along the side of the road! Getting mowed occasionally!
Water here, rainfall, is unreliable, so any sort of long term gardening is a trick.
I worked for some wealthy folks for a while, they had a bed of huge Vandas growing under slats, between the house and cliff, protected from wind. The orchids were planted in gravel. They were well taller than my head, bloomed madly, and had roots from high on their stems to the gravel and rooted well into the gravel. I don't know anything about the bed, and there was no one to ask.
Am very tempted to plant my one Vanda in a big pot with large sized gravel.
And, Hooray for the bump! Let's hear what it turns out to be someday!
