Bob Cox spotted a Seattle Post-Intelligencer Piece on the 1950 book “Home Orchid Growing.” They say this book is still the bible for growers — amateur and professional alike, — and did for orchids what Julia Child did for French cooking, said one orchid lover. Her greenhouse still contained hundreds of orchids when she died April 30 at age 93 in Des Moines, where she lived with her daughter.
“She’s the reason we have orchids in Trader Joe’s,” said Northen’s daughter, Betty Lyons. “Truly, she was an orchid grower’s orchid grower,”
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