He drove 90 miles from his home in Homestead to Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, home to 50 native orchid species. That’s about half of Florida ... to a plant nursery, Fairchild ...

My love of orchids started when I was a child. Growing up in South Florida, my dad had a collection of orchids that happily grew outdoors year-round under the shade of a tangelo tree. When I went to ...