My name is Terry and I am what I think is known as a 'magazine member'. I live too far away from London (near Taunton in Somerset) to attend the monthly meetings but I do enjoy reading the magazine and belonging to the Society. In a strange way the Covid-19 problems have increased my ability to interact with the OSGB. I can now enter plants in the online table show and now we have this Forum!

I am an active member of the South West of England Orchid Society, based near Taunton and attend shows in the South West and occasionally further afield.

I have been growing orchids for about 25 years and now concentrate on Cymbidiums. I am lucky enough to live in the country and have a large garden with enough space for a couple of 10'x 8' greenhouses.

I have made one hybrid, Cattleya Ella Lucy Jones, where I did everything from pollination to sowing to replating and finally flowering. Since then I have sown and grown on dendrobiums, cymbidiums and cattleyas. As my sowing and replating is done in a glove box rather than a Laminar Flow cabinet, my success rate is less than 40% but originally I only tried it to see if I could!