I riro mai i ahau taku Bulbophyllum tuatahi i tētahi hui whakawhiti kaiwhakatipu, kāore au i te tino mōhio ki taku e uru atu nei. Nō muri mai ka kitea e au koinei te momo nui rawa atu…
Whai muri i ngā tau maha o te whakatipu ōkiti i roto i ngā kohua noa, ka whakatau ahau ki te whakamātau i te whakatipu ōkiti ki runga i tētahi papa rakau, i te hiahia kia pai ake te mārama ki tēnei tikanga i kitea tonutia e au i roto i ngā whakaahua…
He ingoa rongonui tō Masdevallia, he nui atu ngā mea e ārai ana, ehara i te āwhina: "he ōkiti uaua, mā te hunga whai hauhautanga anake." He pono te kōrero mō te pāmahana, engari kāore i oti—ā, koia…
I roto i tētahi ngana pai ki te whakateretere i te tipu o tētahi ōkiti i ahua puhoi, i whakamahia e au he tongi ki te kukū teitei ake i te mea i tūtohutia, me te whakaaro "he…
I riro mai i ahau taku Epidendrum tuatahi i te mea he tipu iti noa iho, me te mea he ringa noa iho o ngā kakau angiangi, kāore i te tino kitea. Kāore au i tino tumanako ki tētahi mea mai i taua tipu iti, engari i roto i ētahi marama…
Ia wā ka kawea mai e au he ōkiti hou ki te kāinga, ka ātete ahau i te whakamatautauranga ki te neke tonu atu ki tētahi kohua ataahua ake, ki te whakanoho rānei ki tōna tūranga whakamutunga. I ako ahau i muri mai…
Ko te huarahi tino kino rawa atu mō te nuinga o te tangata ki te tautuhi i te mate ōkiti: ka kite rātou i tētahi rau kōwhai, ka rapu "rau ōkiti kōwhai", ka kimi i ngā take e waru pea, kātahi ka whiriwhiri i te…
Ko te hunga e whakatipu ana i ngā ōkiti i Ūropi, i te Hononga o Amerika rānei, me whai whare kati kōtuhi whakamahana mō te nuinga o te tau. I Brazil, i te nuinga o te whenua, ka taea tēnei…
I tae mai he pātai āwangawanga mai i tētahi kaipānui mō tētahi tauira whiri rerekē, koretake i runga i te rau o tētahi ōkiti hou, he tohu i kitea e au, i muri i taku rangahau nui…
Mō te wā roa, kāore au i te mōhio me pēhea te tautuhi i te wā e tika ana kia whakawhitia te ōkiti ki te kohua hou, me te waiho i ētahi tipu ki te papa kotahi mō te wā roa rawa tae noa ki te putanga mai o te raruraru...