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It is August 1. and Summer is running way too fast for me! And with this we like to start a new thread for the month!
My C. Penny Kuroda 'Spots' opened just in time to do the job!


Rhynchovola David Sander does its August bloom



And tiny Angraecum distichum blooms a bit, it looks happy in Ken's @drdawg Coconut halves amongst a fern hitchhiker.




Please all join me here and post away!

C. Penny Kuroda 'Spots'....
I have loved her forever.

It's all very pretty, Ursula. 🤩

Has Bill posted? I'd been away on vacation so I wasn't able to read all the messages.

Abigail, here is another way to follow a member's post -
type the name into the search box
view posts by "name"
you have the choice of seeing the individual posts.

Oh thanks! I completely forgot about that

Question:

Did I wait to long to get an orchid? Should I wait until the days begin to warm up again, or can I get them during the fall?

Fieldsof_flowers said: Question:

Did I wait to long to get an orchid? Should I wait until the days begin to warm up again, or can I get them during the fall?

You can buy Orchids any time!

I'm probably going to get one next time I go out. I have to go back and look at the tips and answers you all gave me to my questions. I should've bookmarked!

Bill is in Ohio!
I am about 3 hours from home. Had a great visit with my kids. Talk soon everyone!!!
I stopped by to see Ursula on Thursday!
Later all.

The only time you have to be concerned buying orchids is the winter time Abigail. They do not like temperatures around freezing. Exposure to outside temperatures, say 36 degrees as an example, with a breeze blowing creating a windchill can cause a great deal of damage to an orchid. It could only take a few minutes for that to happen. Otherwise you will have no trouble.
Just getting an orchid from a warm place, into a cold parked car could prove fatal. The fairly thin structure of an orchid flower like an Oncidium or Phalaenopsis can freeze easily. Plant tissue turns dark, soft, from a mushy green for a leaf, to black in a matter of hours.

Obviously I am safe at home!! I miss them too much already.


That's Nick with his better half Marta!

I'm glad you had a nice visit, Bill!

That makes sense about the cold parked car.

I was a victim of the reverse. I
Left 3 Vandas in a car parked in the shade with the windows down 2" or so. I went and bowled in my league. About 2 1/2 hours later……. TOAST!!! They were turning soft in spots on leaves and I tried to save them. No luck.
I thought in cooler temperatures of February, low 80's, breezy, that they would be fine! I was horribly wrong.

Whoa! They really can be delicate at times.

Welcome home Bill! Sounds like you had a great road trip.
I read yesterday that my area had the hottest July on record
I don't know how my plants cope with such long stretches of over 100 degrees out at the bench.
There's a few hardy ones that opened up over the weekend.


Eny. Jairak Canary , one of the Apopka bargain plants.


Bc. Bessho, blooming for the first time.


Ruth. Creation 'Summer Choice' , also blooming for the first time.

Thanks!
I got my butt kicked in "Boggle" and "Scrabble". I got off to a hot start in Game #2 with a 40 point word, then 26 more points but like in games 1 and 3, I pulled a large amount of one point tiles. Even if you cover double word scores, it is hard to win that way.


I should have tried cheating as we were outside. "Hey, look over there!" 🤪

Lindsey, they are looking unscathed! 💕
After yesterday's cool 70 ish degrees, we are supposed to be ramping back up to 100 F by Thursday. Yesterday I took the younger two grandchildren to the town pool, they were as happy as clams at high tide in the water. I was glad to haven taken a polartec top along, coming out of the water.


Bill, I haven't done it in a while, but Scrabble is great in German!! mississippidampfschiffkapitän! 😄😄
It was great to see you here!! 👍

Anyone here does Wordle? We do the english and german version in the morning. Fun!!

I do.
I am trying Worldle as well. That is very tough for me.

My Rhynchovola David Sander is now fully open.

That's so cool looking!