My Mother's Orchid Garden

Over the years, my mother was given several different varieties of orchids for Christmas and Birthdays.  If the truth be known, we were at a loss to know what to get her and she seemed to like orchids and they seemed to like her because they flowered so well.

Eventually, they became too large for her to keep indoors, so being a product of The Great Depression and therefore not being capable of throwing anything away, she would plant them in pots at her front door.

Every few years, the orchids would outgrow the pots and so she would break them up and plant them in the garden.












This is the result.