Thinking "dry thoughts" for you Jim and Elaine!
About the Enc tampensis seeds - normally I would agree with you on needing flasking service and all that. Kathy surely remembers our visit to David Walker's greenhouse a few years ago. There were tampensis/and its hybrids growing in many places, the seeds just blew around and started plants on a mount here and there, blew into a pot, flowered in many places. You might remember my pot with the so called tampensis 'Chocolate', which turned out to be a happy mix of tampensis and some others, which is a good example.
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Seems your dry thoughts are helping, Ursula! So far the heavy rain is offshore, both on our side and over on the Dark Side. There is one blob down near Ft. Myers that might move on up towards us, but let's hope this is the last of the monsoons for this week, at least! I'm lucky, our house is on "high ground" i.e. we are 29ft. above sea level and no lakes nearby to flood us. My garden is very happy - and very weedy! - from all this rain.
Glad to hear bout the Tampensis seeding itself in that greenhouse. Since this is its native habitat, and the weather IS so wet, I think we're in with a chance although I suppose it will be years before I actually see recognizable plants.
Here's the seed pod, and second pic is a stem cutting of one of my Phaius that has put up a tiny shoot! (Epidendrums rooting around them too)
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
I need more than dry thoughts as it has been rainning since early afternoon. I'm not even going out there to look.
It's hard to believe that most orchids require flasking and a lab crew while tampensis seeds blow around and sprout everywhere. What makes it so different?
I have another NOID Catt opening today. My lens fogged up a bit on the first pic.
Jim
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Well, what do you know! My new little Bulbophyllum flabellum-veneris has flowered. It had a little spike that looked dead and dried up so I was really surprised by this. The flower is about the size of a quarter.
We are packing tonight and heading for the North Carolina mountains (Franklin) tomorrow for a week of what we hope will be fresh and somewhat cooler air. We plan to visit Laurel and Steve in their place at Maypop on Sunday. It will be good to see them again. I don't know how much internet access I will have so hold the fort for me.
Jim
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Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Love that little bulbo flower. Have a great time, Jim. I hope the weather is good for you up there!
I'm sure you'll have new blooms in the OC when you get back, too. That's my favorite part of going away - coming back to a week's worth of changes in the garden.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Wonders never cease, I discovered a small spike on that Cym ensifolium alba which has been sitting in my collection for a bunch of years and never said "meff". The blooms were already a bit damaged when I saw them.
Cattleya aclandiae has a couple of beautifully scented blooms. The roots on this mounted plant are very long.
Cattleya Penny Kuroda 'Spots' opened the first of 2 spikes.
Bulbophyllum graveolens 'Mount Millais' has a Fly party in the cage. This Bulbo has a sort of waxy cinnamony scent and is not all all stinky. I wonder what attracts the flies so much that they actually get stuck in the flower at times and expire!! And the Flies make a mess of the blooms too!!
Lc Sacramento Rose was one of a bunch of Hoosier Orchids' hybrids from some years ago. It is beautifully fragrant.
