A POSTMAN with a passion for orchids has named an award-winning flower after his wife. Tom Watson, of Darlington, won three awards for an orchid he entered at the Newbury International Orchid Show.
The evergreen flower, a disa uniflora, was given an Orchid of Excellence rosette, the Heather Brown Cup for Best Disa and a cultural commendation from the Royal Horticultural Society, which meant Mr Watson was able to give his orchid a name - Deborah Ann after his wife.
He said: "The disa is a difficult plant to cultivate and you have to have really good plants to get something like that from the RHS. It was a tremendous achievement; you have people from all over the world there."
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