Anton’s hobby blossoms Big band musician and composer, Glenn Miller once ‘dreamed of blue orchids’ but local orchid grower, Anton Wehman doesn’t just dream about orchids, blue or otherwise, he spends hours growing, nurturing and showing these beautiful flowers as he explained to HELEN PERRY. Hobbies often bloom in unexpected quarters but when Anton Wehman bought his wife a phalaenopsis orchid 15 years ago he had no thought of taking his mild interest in the exotic plants any further. But since that early visit to a Howick Orchid Society show, he has become an avid suburban grower with more than 200 plants putting on their own show at his Howick home.
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Over the past decade and a half Anton has held various positions on the local society’s committee, as has his wife Janet. At present both are involved in helping organise the 2016
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