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South Africa  2002 Overview

The link above will take you to an overview of my South African trip taken during January of 2002.  There will be separate reports on individual growers also presented during the coming months and links will be provided as they are finished. The tentative list follows:

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Hildegard Crous

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Sid and Marlene Cywes

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Nicolas and Wilferd Duckitt

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John Duff

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Floris and Hilda Haasbroek

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Eric Harley

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Hubert Kurzweil

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Bill Liltved

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Francois and Sandy Mellett

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Ingeborg Meyer

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Louis Vogelpoel

South Africa 2002  Slide Show

This will link you to a page on which there is a slide show of some of the wild Disas that I encountered during my travels. You may have to increase the screen resolution of your computer screen to 1024 x 768 to see the slide in total as they are 700 pixel square photos.

New Zealand Disas 2001- An overview  

Besides the overview, which you can reach by the link above, there are separate reports on the individual growers in the list below.  All of the links below have photo essays connected with them.

bulletTudor Caridoc-Davies
bulletTrevor & Teresa Gillbanks
bulletTaranaki Summer Display
bulletCesar Zapata
bulletGeorge Fuller
bulletGrahame & Nola Hill
bulletRon Maunder
bulletBetty & Royce Cullen
bulletL & R Orchids
bulletJack McKinlay

Pictures of Awarded Disas

Some AOS awarded Disas.  Pre 2000.

The South African Trip of Dec. 1999

A bit of an overview of a two week trip with Wally Orchard.  In addition, there are pages about the bigger growers I was able to visit during the brief trip.  The links below have photo assays connected with them.

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An overview of the trip

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The Cywes - Part 1

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The Cywes - Part 2

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The Duckitt Nursery

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Louis Vogelpoel - This is a reprint of his out-of-print pamphlet on "Disa uniflora"