Mid-Winter Pick-Me-Up w/ The Orchid Rescuer, Terry Richardson

This week, Cultivating Place welcomes Terry Richardson in conversation with Abra Lee. Terry is known to many as The Black Thumb: Orchid Care Made Simple, an intrepid, enthusiastic, and encouraging orchid rescuer, educator, and storyteller. Terry has helped thousands of people rethink what it means to care for plants, specifically orchids! Terry’s journey began not with expertise, but with curiosity and failure. He is a self-proclaimed “black thumb,” as opposed to the more well-known "green thumb". He began rescuing discarded orchids, specifically Phalaenopsis, and gradually learned how patience and consistency could revive even the most neglected plants. It’s a good winter's tale. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit Photos courtesy of Hudson Valley Seed Company & K Greene; Photo of K and Doug by Annie Tomlin, Modern Farmer. All rights reserved.

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Mid-Winter Pick-Me-Up w/ The Orchid Rescuer, Terry Richardson is an episode from Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place.

This episode is 00:53:49 long.

This episode was published on Jan 22, 2026.

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