Tony - Orchid Board

emntee · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 06:55 AM

Hi All

I am Tony and I live in Perth, Western Australia on the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean. I grow a wide variety of orchids in a hot house and a cool house (that's one without winter heating.) Summers here are hot and can stick around the 40C mark for days at a time. This is semi desert country where it hardly ever rains between early December and late March, meaning that the humidity in so low as to not be worth talking about. Winter temps can get down to 2 or 3C overnight but usually warm up during the day. Min daytime temps would be around 14C on rare occasions

Makes for interesting orchid growing.

I am webmaster for a couple of orchid societies here. The Wanneroo Orchid Society
http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eemntee/page2.html
for which I do a monthly online newsletter with pix
http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eemntee/page49.html

Plus the Species Orchid Society of Western Australia which has over 1000 pix of Western Australian native orchids taken by the late Ron Heberle
http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eemntee/page18.html

The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia also has a monthly newsletter with pix
http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Eemntee/page17.html

All this helps to keep me off the streets.

Please enjoy

Tony

cb977 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 08:35 AM

Hi Tony...nice intro

I know with the time difference it's difficult for oyu to get into chat while the rest of us are there...but it would be nice to have you join us again sometime

Marco · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 09:00 AM

Welcome Tony

emntee · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 09:05 AM

Thanks folks. My main computer is on the blink and is having repairs. All my bookmarks are on there and I am reduced to using my laptop.

Chat with you soon

Tony