Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Our posts crossed, Ursula.
Thanks for the suggestion to submerge the plant. I have been doing that once a week for a while. But that's obviously not often enough to drown the ants. Wonder how wet I can keep that plant without it getting sick, too?? It is well and truly attached by roots to the mount.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Great idea. I think I'll plan to do that once the flowers are finished.
On the little phal, above, do I dare remove that whole leaf? It is the newest leaf on the plant, and I'm worried I'll damage the growth point. I've been circling it with my sterile box cutter, but haven't mustered up the nerve to cut it yet.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Elaine, I would cut the leaf off....it is hard to do, but where it's so close to the crown, I would be afraid that it would spread into the crown.
Jim...you've got some great pictures of beautiful blooms there...I especially love your Blc Golden Tang...!
Nice Brassia!
Regarding the blooms on a Vanda - I could imagine the amount of light the plant receives is responsible for the degree of compactness on that spike? Less light, spike is more "stretched" out. More light/ sunshine - compact spike.
thanks Jim, good point Ursula. I love the Vanda Jim, the flowers just look bunched up and not all the way open flat. im trying to find a pic of the same type of Vanda of mine but can't. Guess yours has more flowers and being a different type of Vanda to mine theres no point comparing. Keep the Vanda flowers coming Jim.
Ursula, your Bl. Tiny Kiss and Epi longipetalum x Laelia lundii are both adorable...love em!
Bpl. Golden Peacock 'Orange Beauty' is beginning it's show, first of two spikes....This is one of my favorites!
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
I've had this yellow Spathoglottis on my Wish List for ages, and finally stumbled across it at Lowe's yesterday. It was the only one, too! Nice little plant with 2 spikes in bloom and a third coming - for $4.95! I do love a bargain. Jim, I recall seeing yours out in the garden, do you keep them in pots out there or in the ground?
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Elaine, I grow mine in a large ceramic pot under the oak tree.
Quote of the day: "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." - Bertrand Russell
Jim
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." -- Steven Leacock
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Great quote, Jim. We do need to be eternal optimists, to keep planting and nurturing all these lovelies, don't we.
I think anyone who gardens but is a pessimist would give up after a few plants died. To put it another way, the inevitable loss of some plants "weeds out" the pessimists.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Ah, the scent of Chocolate with a touch of Vanilla - Onc Sharry Baby. My old plant is working on 3 spikes right now.
Vanda tessellata is a small plant and this is a first spike for me. The flowers have a very beautiful scent, especially in sunshine. ( I got it a year ago at the Silva Orchid Fest from Orchid Limited. It was blooming then, so this spike is right on schedule.)
Cleisocentron merillianum has tiny blue blossoms, finally opening this week. I have been watching the pretty little buds for weeks ....I will get another picture when all are open. The keiki is growing well, so I am hoping my plant will survive even if the top part ever dies off. ( I bought this one many years ago)
im trying to find a pic of the same type of Vanda of mine but can't. Guess yours has more flowers and being a different type of Vanda to mine theres no point comparing. Keep the Vanda flowers coming Jim.
