Yes, DH spent a year's orchid budget installing copper strips at both the doors to the pool cage. At least I know now the snails won't come in that way.

Little Stellis is just sweet - look at those pretty little fringed petals.

Cute Setllis

This little Stelis is one of my husband's favorites!

Elaine, that will hopefully do the trick! I am envisioning snails and slugs standing in line at those doors now....

Another couple of warm and sunny days and then we start looking at steady night temps in the low fifties F here. Time to haul every plant back inside. The greenhouse sparkles and so do all windows around the house. Mustn't block the light, right?
This was probably one of the better Summers regarding Orchid growth for me - very little black rot and that only on minor plants. The larger orchids/mainly Catts did fine and so far it looks like a promising bloom season. Keeping fingers crossed!

We're all looking forward to seeing lots more of your wonderful blooms, Ursula.

We had such an extreme amount of rain, I'm surprised I didn't lose more to the Black Plague. I had several plants lose a few leaves, and one a couple of pb's, but so far have only lost one Phal, and it didn't have any black rot! I've learned that I can probably water my orchids a lot more than I have been in the summer. Most of my plants have a fantastic amount of healthy new growth, so I am hoping to see more flowers coming along, too.

Accidentally posted this in the August thread (I've been a little out of it today) so here it is in September...

Finally, I have blooms to share! Both of these orchids were purchased at Byrd's going out of business sale where Melanie went a little crazy. LOL! And today I noticed a third one that has a bud on it so I brought it inside the shade house where it will hopefully, be protected from little rodent nibblers.

Here's Pot. Burana Beauty. The blooms aren't very big but they're cute! And they smell nice. I had two clusters of blooms but one of them got sunburned in Dad's pressure washing incident. So one of the clusters look a little dried out even if they did bloom. But this cluster looks bright and pretty!



The other bloom is Blc. Hawaiian Affection x C. Velutina. I had no idea what this one was going to look like but I have a soft spot for orchids with Hawaiian names. This one is really smelling up the shade house (in a good way)!

It's still pretty in Sept.!

Melanie, thanks so much! (I did delete both your and Carol's follow-up post in the August thread)

The Potinara Burana Beauty is very cute and I am familiar with its scent, I like it a lot! Nice Blc. Hawaiian Affection x too!

Nice blooms, Melannie. I like both of them. Good growing

Jim

Some stuff in bloom here
Ascda Peddler's Velvet Gold opens another spike


Bl Tiny Kiss likes the new basket this Summer


Ctna Why Not


Dendrobium moniliforme Miyakohime has been blooming a bit here and there this Summer, but these last blooms are so tiny - it is blooming on a brand new keiki!


Epidendrum longipetalum x Laelia lundii blooms again


And Miltonia regnellii blooms on a lower tier in the cage


We are supposed to have another really hot Summer day today with temps in the nineties. I guess I will be joining my grandson running through the Sprinkler today....

Beautiful show, Ursula. I like all of them but my favorites would have to be Bl Tiny Kiss and the Miltonia regnellii. I have some new plants in bloom too but it is just so hot out there right now. No rain for a few days so the temps are up and some of the grass is stressed. Choir practice tonight and all day palm school tomorrow. At least my orchid presentation is almost finished. We leave early Friday (7 AM flight) for Indiana and my high school class reunion (50 years). Oh my, where does the time go?

Jim

I'm leaning towards that lovely flashy Ctna. Why Not. Besides I like the name.

I like your Milt. better than mine! The petals recurve too much on Milt. spectablis (bicolor)


My freebie Sobralia opened a flower this morning. The plant is only about 2" tall


Blc. Erin Kobayashi X stono river opened a single flower after being repotted last month

Thanks!

Jim, enjoy your class reunion! We did something like that ( 40 years) some years ago, it was a lot of fun!

Carol, my Miltonia curls sometimes too, for some reason just not this time. I love, love the Sobralia. We saw so many Sobralias in Ecuador flowering right on the road embankments, they were just gorgeous. I bet I have this one identified in my Ecuador report, I have to scroll through the pictures.
The Blc is so delicate!

I just had to take a couple more pictures of the Habenaria medusa as the three spikes are now fully open to the very last bud.

Love, Love, Love that Habenaria! I did go through the Sobralia pages, but there weren't pics of all of them, and I didn't find a match. It may be an unregistered cross. It's pretty, anyway, and it was free.

Carol, I looked too and didn't find yours. I agree, on the x and it sure is pretty!

Regarding the Habenaria, I figured this is it, and from here on will slowly go down. I kept it inside the last few days so it wasn't exposed to the elements. It was fun to see it opening!

Just back from choir. Ursula, great picture of the Habenaria!

Carol, pretty colors on your Miltonia and I love the Erin Kobayashi cross.

Jim

Great blooms all. Just wanted to check in. Lynda is in Chicago and the UP this week, so we are running the shop shorthanded.

We just went through some really foul weather here! No fun driving through it!

edited to add, I hate spellcheck!!!! I know I wrote driving, but it said thriving.