South  Africa  2002

During the last few years I have been fortunate enough to to spend about 8 weeks tramping around the South African countryside looking for those elusive Disas which only seem to be around in good numbers after a fire.  While tramping around, I have been very fortunate to have the assistance of old friends in finding Disa habitats but each trip has also added a number of new friends to the scene.  Were I to try and list them all, I'm sure that I would miss one and to prevent any slight, I just say "Thank You All" and trust that they know who I mean. 

Some of my South African friends are also growers of my favorite orchid genus and pages containing their setups and flowers are presented here for your information.  They include:

In addition, you can read the trip report for locations and see some of the flowers on the slide show.

A goodly number of people are not included above but that is because they are hikers or botanists or some other classification but I either haven't seen their growing setup or they don't grow Disas but just enjoy them in the wild.