I guess I've always liked plants, from the time I was a wee little baby. I had a few houseplants that I got for my then-girlfriend (now wife), and they were doing fine, but I was scared of orchids because I kept hearing that they were so hard to grow and would commit suicide at the slightest wrong move. Anyway, I got one for myself on sale in March, fully expecting it to be dead within a week, but the thing just kept going. A month later, I saw another one that I liked at IKEA, and managed to resuscitate it. After that, I got the bug and started reading a bunch of stuff online and finally went to a for-reals orchid store. Since then I've been gradually collecting and now have a total of 14 (13 if you don't count the one I divided).
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