Malala has gone...

 

 

 

It is with regret that I have just learnt that Michelle ANDRIAMANAMIHAJA, creator of the world-famous company " Malala orchids ", left us April 6th of this year.

 

We knew each other since only decade, but I felt for her a big tenderness, but also a big gratitude for of what she made for years in favour of the orchids of Madagascar.

Naturally these orchids she sold them, but by making the effort to come from time to time to sell them in Europe, in spite of the administrative and financial difficulties , she allowed small collectors as me to have access to the Grail, to the Malagasy orchids which we see only in books and which so much make us dream.
 

Conscious of the wealth and the big diversity of the orchids of his island, Michelle welcomed so much that she could the specialists of any nationalities in journey in Madagascar and sometimes, under these shadehouses, some discovered a not yet described novelty.

 

A lot of new species have been discovered thanks to her.

During mu journey in 2011 in Madagascar, Michelle and her husband mari Raoul, had welcomed us at their home so my friends can discover her collection and see in flower some orchids which we did not have been able to see during three weeks spent in the Highlands.
 

Her installations of culture were "simple" because no need of greenhouse in Madagascar, it is simply necessary to protect the orchids of the ardent sun and the sometimes violent wind. Of simple wooden shadehouses are enough to grow and to obtain marvelous flowers !!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

But MIchelle was tired these past years...

Tired to see what her beloved island became, to see what the People made it undergo and maybe simply tired of a well charged life, its numerous working years in France and of her  pension  deserved well on her island where she and Raoul had chosen to return to end their life in conditions harder than what they had known in France for years.
 

Last September it is Raoul who went out and since the fatigue of Michelle went only by becoming more marked, until this April 6th of this year when she left us.

 

Relaying in peace Michelle now that you found Raoul and  thank you for all that you made for the Malagasy orchids, for the Malagasy cause ... I'll miss you!!!!