ABOUT US
 

Juno Beach Orchids has been family-owned and operated for the last ten years. I'm Kenni Judd, and among many other jobs, I'm the self-taught amateur webmistress, so please let me know if anything on the website is not working properly.

I got hooked on orchids many years ago, by either coincidence or divine intervention :<), when we bought a home with a small gazebo in the backyard. Someone told my mother it was an "orchid house," so with her usual zeal, not to mention a total disregard for my previous history as a plant-killer, she decided it "ought" to have orchids in it. She promptly gave me a few plants, and a book to go with them. I duly potted them up per the instructions, hung them in the gazebo, and pretty much forgot about them for a few months.

Then one day I walked by the gazebo and saw that several of the plants were, of all things, BLOOMING! Instant addiction -- this was my kind of plant! [I had tried many other kinds of "houseplants," but usually managed to neglect them to death.] I found my way to Orchids Anonymous on Prodigy, where I met some local folks who invited me to visit a local orchid society. Next thing I knew, the gazebo was overflowing with orchids, I was reading everything I could find about orchids, etc., etc.

That's when Mike had to get involved. My collection had strained the gazebo past its capacity, so together we designed a small backyard shadehouse, and then he built it for me. In the process, he couldn't help but learn a bit about orchids, but he still wasn't really "bitten." That came much later--and wouldn't you know, the plant that hooked him was one I had around just for "variety," rather than one of my favorites! Mike has since built -- almost single-handledly -- our current shadehouses, and either modified or built a number of "hobby houses," orchid arbors, etc., for our customers.