I am just here to enjoy and drool on everyone's beautiful blooming orchids!

Dutch slippers It always blooms this time of year for me and the 3 slippers are cute?


and Phragmipedium Sorcerer's Fire starts up

cute shoes Ursula! One of my club members grows this and I find it really hard to get a good picture of...yours is nice❤️
Some new stuff here


Myc. Edward L. Waldin , Jr with a couple of random buds at the end of the last spike




Rlc. Star Parade 'Volcano Queen'
and a neat comparison of an old bloom on the left and a just opened one on the right of Bc. Bessho

The Myc. Edward L. Waldin looks interesting, trying to ruffle and twist?
Nice color change on the Bc Bessho!
Lindsey, always nice "stuff" on the bench!!

on the shoes 👠 so adorable!

Lindsey beautiful blooms! the twisty blooms are my favorite.

It rained here again so I started removing the middle leaves of my Vanda so the upper and lower branches both have sets of leaves. I might put rooting hormone and spaghnum moss to speed up the rooting.

Gigi, please do keep us posted on your vandaceous progress! So interesting and useful!

Definitely will, this is the first time I will force it to root faster so keeping my fingers crossed they will not rot!

Another surprise spike on C. gaskelliana coerulea x self. I saw it peeking out at me when I moved a few plants to spray. Oh, hello!

Had to hold the flowers out from the side of the basket to get a picture.

Then I propped the stem out with corks and a little micro-sprinkler. Hoping the flowers will re-orient themselves the right way up.

This plant is very scruffy, and due for re-potting and I have all the stuff ready to refresh it nicely, but, guess I'm waiting until the flowers finish now . .

Spraying down the orchids and turning on the fan early today - it's cookin' out there! No clouds visible in the sky = the brutal sun just heats up the place.

My sweet little 'Yellow Bird' putting out a couple of nice flowers. I'm always pleased to catch them at this stage before they're entirely yellow. They seem to put on the red dots in hot weather, much less in the cool.

Sorry for the repeat on C. gaskelliana coerulea x self but today it is so much more blue than it was yesterday. Not doing too well on flower orientation, though. The one facing away from the camera is the only one that's upright . . .

It really is, and love seeing repeat blooms

These 2 beauties are blooming at the USF Greenhouse ( part of my club's 2024 auction inventory)
neither have tags, please chime in if either looks familiar)


this is a bifoliate
and this Vanda looks like a hybrid...maybe with Mokara?

and from my bench


Pot. Creation 'Summer Choice' with a less than perfect flower.


and in the Summer ReRun group


Grt. Henry Wan


a recent addition Bc. Fantasy Bird


a second spike opens on Encyvola Jairak Treasure 'Kakapu Bird"

Lindsey, your bench is coming back beautifully.

Must be just wonderful to sit there and enjoy the display of beauties!

Catasetum Pileatum 'alba' from Waters Orchids.
First Bloom.

Prabhisetty

Prabhi, it is really nice!

Lindsey @sugarcane

sugarcane said: These 2 beauties are blooming at the USF Greenhouse ( part of my club's 2024 auction inventory)
neither have tags, please chime in if either looks familiar)


this is a bifoliate
and this Vanda looks like a hybrid...maybe with Mokara?


BigBill looked at it and he thinks the bifoliate is probably a C. maxima hybrid, looking at the strong influence of the maxima lip.

and the Vanda -
[quote]The purple spotted Vanda reminds me of a popular hybrid that has been making the rounds, it looks like Vanda Gordon Dillon x Pda. Mimi Palmer. Very pretty, purple, spotted with a more open form than Gordon Dillon.

There you have it. Thank Bill.

Epidendrum Cristatum hybrid.This is a hybrid from Trinidad,is named after someone by the name of 'Ragbhir'tried to get the name of hybrid but did not succeed


Name: Epiarhorn Kevin Mark Ragbir
prabhisetty

Prabhi, I tried to find your pretty hybrid in the RHS database, Epidendrum cristatum as Pollen parent has 9 entrees, but I am striking out trying to identify one.
https://apps.rhs.org.uk/hortic...

Bill

I had no luck identifying Prabhi's plant with OrchidWiz, either. Just not familiar enough with Epidendrums to be sure what it could be.

Flowering here for the first time is Cym. erythrostylum 'Springfield':