For a long time, this blog served as a digital greenhouse journal, a quiet space to record the slow unfurling of a new bloom or the steep learning curves that come with managing a collection of over 50 specimens. It was about the moss, the humidity levels, and the tactile joy of watching a new root tip push through the medium.
But as my research into the history of orchids grew, I realized that I’m not just growing plants; I am living alongside a history that stretches back centuries, to the first-century woodcuts of Dioscorides and the Materia Medica.
