When I lived here in NC the first time leaving in 1990, my hubby n I grew and hybridized orchids and I was additionally into Roses. We had a greenhouse attached to our home. 15 x 15. At any give time an array of beautiful and fragrant blooms.
It was cats forbidden territory but o occasion I smiled and we found one on a shelf of plants . Sleeping away
The desire for something better or unusual was the key for hybridizes. We Specialized in cattleya and Phalaenopsis and we were active in large Triad orchid society. None of the breeders were into very dark hybridizing of any variety. Marketing and merchandizing had huge demand for the blooms. The darker very minimal to non existent
Spunky AKA The Train’s
Grandma Moses
Lived to 100+
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953, was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life’s History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees.
Moses was a live-in housekeeper for a total of 15 years, starting at age 12. An employer noticed her appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, and they supplied her with drawing materials. Moses and her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. In 1905, they returned to the Northeastern United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New York. They had ten children, five of whom survived infancy. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis.
In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: “The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter’s first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring.
.. In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild.”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses