Who Are We
Yep, That's Us
Sorry, the drawing is all you get. While Diane takes a great picture, I just couldn’t risk another camera on myself. No, I already tried one of those cheap throw-a-way cameras, now the photo processor company is mad at me (it costs lots of money to fix those fancy machines). Besides I don’t want to scare you off.
Ok, enough silliness. Orchid Magic does not grow any orchids nor do we sell any orchid plants. Orchid magic exists only in cyber space to provide you with information about orchids and maybe in the future make a little money with advertising or commissions for recommending something good (not a real concern of mine at this time).
Lets back-up a bit. I am John Swart and the other character in the drawing is my wife Diane. The two of us have been involved in horticulture for the past 30 years (ouch, NO I didn’t tell them how young you are). Diane is a licensed landscape contractor. Me, I sell anything that grows. My first sale was at age nine when I went around the neighborhood selling a wagonload of fuchsias that I grew. Ten cents each in quart milk cartons. Sold them all! I was rich!
I have worked at foliage, bedding plant and orchid nurseries. As well as spending 10 years as a wholesale florist. But the best jobs were working in the orchid nurseries and working at the Orchid Zone was truly a great pleasure (Thank you Terry).
I have been addicted to orchids for 30 years and along the way have managed to hook Diane with the addiction also.
And the twist in all this is I am sitting in a nursery on 17 acres in Oregon with over 40 greenhouses and not an orchid in sight.
We obtained an old almost abandoned nursery and for the past several years been cleaning out old overgrown plants and berry vines, slowly bringing the nursery back to life. The greenhouses are old water pipe hoop houses and I would go broke heating them for orchids (might go broke cleaning out the berry vines anyway…they never end and I have to keep checking behind myself). What do we grow? Perennials mostly, for sale to the local garden centers in the Portland, Oregon area.
The website was restarted to bring back some of the pleasures that we remember with the orchids. Working on the site makes for a pleasant evening after a slow rainy winter day. During the hectic days of spring and summer don’t expect much for changes on the site.
What is Orchid Magic? Simply said it’s a vehicle for providing you with information about orchids. The plan is to keep adding to the site, providing you with more and more information about orchids and orchid care. The goal is to make Orchid Magic your starting place for online orchid adventures.
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