Lessons from a master - Ted Green

I have just come back from a few days with Dorothy and Ted Green and I have to say his plants are well grown and really beautiful!!! Here is a photo of H. kanyukamariana (on the right) and H. kastelbergii on the left, growing on their back lanai with full sun until about 1 in the afternoon. They also grow very dry...something I am terrified of doing...but am going to change my ways. I have a lot of photos and will post them here...

The cat is sitting on a fiberglass corrugated roofing over his 'shade house' where he grows many of his prize orchids and some hoyas. I know he uses chicken manure on his plants...and MSU. The key is to outdoors where there is good air circulation and to growing dryer... I have seen the difference and am going to tweek my growing too. Of course, many of his plants have been outdoors for many years..... Yes...H. linearis in the middle!!!

Here is a rock in the back yard. I saw the D. ruscifolia in abundance....and also some Vanda orchida and H. cumingiana (or it may have been goamcoina ...), also H. densifolia and a couple of others....

And this is a Dischidia which lept from the bark where its' leaves were about the size of a nickel, to a palmtree where...well, you can see the size of them!!!

And here's Ted with the most exquisite H. megalaster I have ever seen!!!! Gotta put my runt outside if it can do that!!!!

Wow! Amazing photo's of some Amazing plants! Thank you for sharing ... keep the pic's coming!



Do Dorothy and Ted Green live in Hawaii near you?

They live on Oahu which is the island where Honolulu is....and where I have to go, sometimes, to see a Doctor (really limited medical services here on the Big Island)...so I combine it with social events since the trip is free (paid for by HMO) It is wierd but reality.

*sigh* Hawaii IS paradise

Karen...believe me...it takes a certain amount of care to grow hoyas the way Ted does...

The Dischidia is a beauty, Carol. Where is it originally growing from at the bottom of the palm? ie, the ground or a pocket in the trunk somewhere?

Dominic

Dom...here is a picture I took of Ted taking a picture (HAHA)...in the lower right you will see the original plant, mounted on a piece of Tree Fern Bark. The size difference between the mounted dischidia and that growing on the tree is amazing!!!

And this amazed me: H. elliptica!!! I guess this one just doesn't like captivity!!!! Mine is going outside immediately!

Another part of the garden with tropical lushness all around. Ted is, by avocation and career, a Landscape Architect and artist, I might add, and the garden is terrific!!!

I was wondering where it was coming from..:))
I have some mounted on long sticks and the new growth is much bigger than the original cuts....Im interested to see if they continue to expand... I really like them. I havent many trees here, but I have some nice lichen stone walls..I have an idea..,will post next year after I see if it works!!