Hybridizer Sandy Murphy is passionate about orchids and enjoys the process of creating new varieties. She plans to register an especially nice hybrid with England's Royal Horticultural Society as Phalaenopsis 'Winter Sunset'. Hybridizers' goals may be wide-ranging. One goal may be to create beautiful new colors, another to create an especially hardy plant. When plants are hybridized, their offspring may have what's called "hybrid vigor," meaning that they're more disease-resistant, vigorous or free-blooming than their parents. Most of Sandy's hybrids have produced larger-than-anticipated flowers.
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