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It is September 1. and here we are with our new thread for the month.
Let me start with this pretty doublet of C. loddegesii x Rlc Cynthia


Trichoglottis atropurpurea/brachiata keeps on opening


and Paph Odette's Beauty opened the first of two buds


Please all join in and post away!

Trichoglottis atropurpurea looks cute. The leaves look cute, too

Very pretty Ursula!
Loddigesii x Cynthia is just "Pretty In Pink!!"

Wow Ursula! What a beautiful way to start the month!

They all are so pretty!!

Trichoglottis atropurpurea/brachiata is just wonderful. Love it!

Thanks. Ted, it is a real warm grower! Full blast sun year around here in NJ. Thanks to our hot Summer it is blooming nicely this year!

Wow is it really September already??!! on your beautiful orchid photos to start the month Ursula.

And congratulations to Lindsey her orchid got featured in this weeks newsletter!

https://garden.org/newsletter/...

Oh Ursula, your C. loddegesii x Rlc Cynthia is so pretty
I wish I could get my
Trichoglottis atropurpurea To produce more than 2 flowers, they are such cool flowers with the crazy lip and thin white picotee.
Thanks Gigi, I wish I could take credit for the Fascelis bloom , all credit goes to the grower I bought it from ( and of course, my Visa card!)
There's some new stuff to share this morning.


2 spikes of Grt. Why Not open


Some pretty stuff that opened last month but still looks good today


A bag baby that's a little disappointing… I was hoping the Triumphans would be more visible
El. Richard Mueller × C. Triumphans


And my little Trichoglottis atropurpurea with 2 cute flowers. Ursula, have you noticed that yours opens on the same day every year. This showed up in my Facebook memory for the past 3 years

What!
Now hold on a second. Opens on the same day? That is incredible. My goodness!

Lindsey, not on the same day for me, but surely fairly close! I find that this Trichoglottis really needs really bright and warm conditions to bloom, and we don't always have such a nice hot Summer as we had this year. Mine is doing its best ever since I got it probably around 20 years ago. It is a fairly long plant by now. I am enjoying those neat blooms!!
I love your Why Not too!!

I just went into the cage to take a look at Ken's Coconut plantings. Those Coconut halves came from him! Happily I noticed the Angraecum distichum has some cute blooms.




And Vandachostylis Viboon Velvet starts up with two good spikes.

Viboon Velvet is just so beautiful!!!

A couple of years ago I thought that one was a goner, but it grew a good Keiki! The Keiki is blooming here. I am happy it made it!

Man, that is pretty!

Newly opening today for me: V. Robert's Delight still quite cupped, but coming along with nice vivid colors.

Also the nice white NOID Den, one of my Apopka bargains that do so well. Alone, and in a group shot with all the B. nodosas for a symphony in white.



(Please excuse the mess, unlike Ursula's greenhouse, my pool cage is at it's most cluttered and dirty at this time of year. As soon as the weather cools and dries a bit, it gets cleared out, and entirely power-washed.)

Not only did this Vanda Delight Robert, it delights me too!!!
Very pretty Elaine!!

Me too! I always enjoy Robert's Delight.
Regarding the cupped blooms, I grew that Vanda for some years and the blooms on mine always stayed somewhat cupped. One of my fb Orchid friends, also an Orchid Judge, told me to gently water the blooms along with the plant. Once wet, one can gently straighten those cupped blooms out. I did that and it worked quite well.

Ah ha! Thanks. I'll try that tomorrow when more of the blooms are open. Or maybe after it rains IF it rains. So far all sound and fury, lots of thunder but not a drop of precip yet.

Here we go, before and after shots of V. Robert's Delight having his petals popped outward.
cupped

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