Karma Forester

Welcome! My name is Karma. I live in Gothenburg Sweden and I am a certified orchidophile with a penchant for orchids of the Pleurothallid Alliance, but we don’t have an exclusive relationship...

I am also the editor for the Swedish Orchid Society magazine "Orkidéer". If you would like to contribute, or know of any interesting orchid stories or people - please send them my way!

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Vandas on summer vacation 2011

It is that time again… and you really know it is summer when the orchids get to go on holiday. Well, at least some of the orchids… Same place as last year, although the little red cottage by the coast has been painted black this year the scenario is the same. This year the Vanda vacationers [...]

Vandas on summer vacation 2010

Here we go again… We have moved to the summer cottage by the coast and of course with a bunch of bare-rooted orchids in tow…  A slightly larger crowd than last summer, mostly smaller young plants, but otherwise more or less the same. This year I made up a small sun shade for [...]

Vandas on winter vacation

It has become a bit of a tradition to have all the vandas tag along on our vacations, so I figured I would post a photo of this year’s group. Since I grow my vandas bare root they get a bath every day (or every other day now when it is a little darker [...]

Vandas on summer vacation

Finally it is time for some summer vacation!!

The vandas had to come with us to the summer house since they require daily watering. And why not? After bringing one (the princess Mikasa) on ski vacation last winter, I figured that all of them deserved a few weeks at a nice little red cottage by [...]

Vanda orchid on ski vacation

So we are up in Sälen skiing over the new year holiday and I could not find a babysitter for my vanda… So the little princess had to tag along to the montains. It turned out to be kind of cool to have her along on vacation though – as any vacation definitely is [...]