Time for a new monthly thread. We came from The thread "Our Orchid blooms in May 2013" in Orchids forum
Please join us in posting your June blooms here. Ursula is spending the weekend at her lovely property in Pennsy so asked me to start the new thread. Hopefully she will return with some wonderful pictures to share.

All of these pictures were taken yesterday afternoon.

Let me begin with this large Brassia Rex 'Walomao Spotless FCC/AOS. The flowers are huge and pure yellow.


Moving from screaming yellow to screaming red, this is Epi. Pacific Sizzle 'Flameout' X Pacific Pepper 'Mulligans'.


Here is a primary hybrid Phal. called Phal. Mancervi.


Mcv. Frances Fox 'Sunspots' now seems to be holding her color.


The ribbon winning Grammatophylum scriptum seems none the worse for wear after the show.


This is Brassavola tuberculata.


The troop of hand puppets are still here. This is Sarcoglottis sceptrodes All of the pretty leaves are gone, just the blooms now. It should leaf out later.


This pretty NOID Phal. wanted to be included.


Gongora smaug (Gon. clavidora X Gon. pterodactyl) is still flying about.


Tampa's own Encyclia tampensis


Still in the Encyclia corner, Encyclia cordigera, var. rosea is still looking good.


Epicatts really do well for me. Here is Epc. Rene Marques 'Tyler'.


I love the colors on this Blc. Hawalian Leopard 'Mai Ling'.


Blc. Golden Tang just keeps pumping out the blooms.


Speaking of prolific bloomers, here is Carol's Gerberara Snow Ballet, Florida edition.


Something a little different, Maxillaria tenuifolia.


Another prolific bloomer is species Dendrobium antennatum.


Psychopsis Mendenhall alba 'Yellow Butterfly' has a new bloom.


As for ground orchids, the yellow Spathoglottis plicata and the Spathoglottis George Swirl are both blooming.


Hanging under the oak tree is Epidendrum radicans.


Last but not least, B. nodosa X C. netrasiri 'waxy' is just opening some new flowers.


That brings you up to date on the OC activity and gets us off to a good start in June. Please join in.

Jim

Oh my!!! Jim, you have a whole Orchid Show going on in your OC, just wonderful!!! You need to start the monthly threads more often!!

Just trying to live up to the standards you have set for us.

Jim

You've really got it all, Jim! Love the Mcv. Francis Fox 'sunspots'!

Thanks,Carol. I find orchids like that by searching for Schomburgkia hybrids.

Jim

Amazing show, Jim. The Den. antennatum is just great, love the antennae.

Update on my rescued Lc. Star Parade 'Volcano Queen' that now has all five flowers open.

I love the Volcano Queen, Elaine!

And Jim, I am at the "tongue-smilie"....

Great show, Jim

Nice flowers, Jim, way to get June off to a great start!

Thanks, everyone. My most expensive orchid acquisition during the recent Redlands trip was a large Schomburgkia tompsoniana in spike from Plantio La Orquidea. There was one in bloom that I fell in love with but it was sold so I opted for this one in spike. Kathy loved it as well but I think she thought it was too big to travel on the plane. Anyway, the flowers began to open yesterday and I hope you like it as much as we did.

Jim

Very pretty, but it would have been awkward on the plane.

It fit nicely in my truck.

Jim

I have a few today
Nageliella (Hartwegia) has 10 spikes bobbing in the breeze. Only three are new spikes
The best close up I can get on this
This NOID snuck up on me. The petals are actually very pale lavender. Any guesses?
Den. Tuanani only has 2 flowers this year
Paph. Wendbourn X rosydawn is doing an encore. It bloomed in Jan.

Beauties, Carol, love the Den Tuanani! I was lookin at all that lovely fruit in the first pic. Nectarines?

Mm hmm, Kathy would have had to buy ithat Schom a seat of its own, you wouldn't want to put it in luggage with that big spike . . . very expensive orchid indeed! (Plantio folks would have likely shipped it for her, actually)

It's absolutely lovely, Jim. You need to venture down to Sarasota more often though . . . That baby rode all the way to Redlands in their truck, then back past where it started in your truck before heading home to Odessa.
B. nodosa 'Big Jim' with all his flowers open. (sorry for the repeat, I just hate to post without a picture)

Carol, I'll bet a nickel your NOID has some Laelia purpurata in it. Also, very nice Paph.

Elaine, you can post Big Jim as many times as you want. I love it.

Jim

Jim, the Schomburgkia is certainly worth it. I like it very much!

Carol, I am glad you posted the Nageliella!! That one is so impossible to photograph. Mine started up too and I just deleted a bunch of fuzzy closeups. You did very well. I love the Cattleya!

Elaine, 'Big Jim' looks great!

Nice show, guys. Carol, you are way ahead of me this year. Lats of growth but few buds.

Ok here it goes:
All Orchids are now in the cage for their Summer vacation, I got the job done on Thursday evening, just in time for the weekend. Now comes the greenhouse clean-up, that is major exercise...

There is a Fly-party in the cage as the blooms open on Bulbophyllum graveolens 'Mount Millais' - the blooms aren't really stinky, who knows what those flies are thinking.


Cattleya luteola is a small plant, I am glad it was very warm the last couple of days, this one usually aborts the buds if kept too chilly.


I took some inside for a better picture -
Encyclia Orchid Jungle ( have to look up the clonal name0


Pleurothallis mathildae


Probably Ascocentrum garayi


Cattleya aclandiae


Dendrobium hercoglossum


Lycaste consobrina


Phrag Sorcerer's Apprentice


Pleurothallis tribuloides - cooked Lobster claws!!


Epic Rene Marques 'Flame Thrower'

And the Neofinetia falcata are coming into bloom one by one. There are a bunch more.....

Benisuzume

Gojo Fukurin

Hakuun

Kinrokaku

Nigashidemiyako

Onamiseikai

Shutenno

Suruga Fukurin


And I always love the nice scent!

Elaine, The Nageliella lives in my lemon tree.
Ursula, Yeh! it's tough to get a picture that does it justice. Love that Phrag! I hear you are in for some more bad weather.
Jim, I've looked at everything I could , trying to ID that pass along, and the closest I have found is C.jennmanii, but there are so many similar....? It's sure smellin' up the shack though. I'll bet you had NO problem getting that Schlom. in your truck! Hmmm.....