| Petite Plaisance began in 1981. Fifteen years ago, Jim’s and Ron’s interest in species quickly mushroomed into a passion that overshadowed their extensive miltoniopsis, miniature cattleya, and phalaenopsis hybridizing programs. Petite Plaisance has a reputation for well established plants beautifully grown in pots, teak baskets, or on hapu or cork mounts. Most of their offerings are mature, blooming-size plants. Two growing areas, cool and intermediate to warm, permit them to subspecialize within the realm of native plants, and their extensive collections of Bulbophyllums and Lepanthes are impressive. Jim and Ron have introduced their plants to orchid lovers on the East Coast at the Greater New York Orchid Show and on the West Coast at San Francisco’s Pacific Orchid Exposition. Petite Plaisance, located an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge on the rolling hills of west Sonoma County on the fringes of the California Wine Country, is open most days by appointment. Jim is a past-president of the San Francisco Orchid Society and on the Publications Committe of the Trustees of the American Orchid Society. |
| e-mail Petite Plaisance orchids@sonic.net |