It took only one visit to Hawaii in 1976, for Peggy to fall in love with the flowers, the land and the people. Each time she returned to Hawaii she found it more and more difficult to leave and so she decided to bring a little of Hawaii home with her. She started with Plumeria cuttings and then began cultivating orchids. “The exotic Cattleya, graceful Phalaenopsis, and mysterious Paphiopedilum made me feel like I always had the spirit of Hawaii with me,” she says. Other than a few college art courses, she is self taught and first experimented with oils in 1980 while taking groups lessons...more
