She must have got it from the long line of St Kitts planters she was descended from. When I told a colleague I liked going into the bush to find wild plants, he said I was one in a million. That may be true, but not in this instance. There can't be only half of another person like me in the Republic. Avid orchid collectors often risk thorny undergrowth, mapepires and tarantulas in search of specimens.
All plants come originally from the bush.
They were all wild till somebody tamed them. Then botanists produced hybrid versions. The undiscerning eye looks at the forest floor and sees only tangled weeds. Look more carefully, distinguish them individually, and you find the most beautiful things. I have a shrub with pale green leaves that turn silver in the sunlight.