Thomas Powell may be known to you as the distinguished, award
winning editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter, The Avant
Gardener, and the author of popular garden books. But, back in the
nineteen fifties and sixties, he and his wife Betty were just
starting out in horticulture when they were suddenly drawn headlong
into the high flying world of the orchid trade, in the days before
tissue culture and mechanized greenhouses made the world's most
beautiful flower available to all. The cast of orchid-obsessed
characters in this book range from super rich, even titled
customers to explorers, breeders, lecturers, judges, growers, and
professional orchidists of all sorts. If you have ever been part of
a special interest organization or a competitive flower show, you
will laugh with recognition at these boisterous tales of the old
days when newlywed New Yorkers Betty and Tom took on the world of
orchid collecting and showing with innocence and energy. You will
enjoy Betsy West's spirited illustrations, too. Tom, in this
tribute to Betty, lays out the perils and pleasures of lecturing to
snorers and poisoners, foiling pollen purloiners, corsaging buxom
matrons for the horse show, and blanketing caskets with lovely
orchids for gangster funerals. He takes you along for tours beset
by beauties, bores and boars, the challenge of keeping a behemoth
boiler going to save the orchids from bitter cold, an artful escape
from a wife swapper, and the ultimate heaven/hell experience
managing thousands of raging and rabid orchid exhibitors at the
"greatest flower show of all time." This is a story of the heights
of Mother Nature and the wild ways of human nature. Aphid in My Eye
is a treat for anyone who has ever admired, seen, or attempted to
grow an orchid.
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