Ted, that can't be easy for you right now, I really hope you get everything sorted out and fixed soon. We missed you here!

Jean, I think some Orchids actually seem to need a change of scenery every so often and pampering them doesn't always lead to blooms. I still have some of my Phrags outside and a few others. I have never flowered my Max picta - it just adds growth year after year, so I am trying to "scare it a bit" by leaving it outside until frost. Let's see if that works. So far it looks good.
Keeping my plants outside over the Summer seems to give them a definite change in conditions and it is for most of them positive. Yes, I lose the occasional plant too, but...

More new blooms today here, Bc. Punakea just opening, and Lc. Star Parade 'Volcano Queen' open all the way now. They smell great!


Forgot to add, what a shame, Ted, and our sympathies! We have missed you, bet you've got some blooms to show us?

Ohhh, both are very pretty, Elaine. Gotta love your on the beautiful pink bloom!!

Some old, some new ( for the season) today around here -
My old Aerangis biloba had a small surprise spike, I discovered it while moving things around.


Ceratostylis rubra was in fine feather today


My Cattleya x labiata ( noid) starts opening one of several spikes this season


Cymbidium Amazing 'Marlow Orchids' is blooming a couple of months later than previously


Darwinara Rainbow Stars


Neostylis Fuchs Ocean Spray is a bit more floriferous than usual and keeps on spiking.


Neostylis Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird'


The new growth on Slc Patricia Taaffe 'Neptune' looks a lot better since I mounted the plant and I am keeping it in full sun


Ad Tolumnia Pink Panther is a cutie


Hope you enjoy!

I really like the Neostylis Fuchs Ocean Spray.

Thanks Jean!
This one is fragrant too, nicely compact and not fussy at all!

All lovely, Ursula but I am crazy about that gorgeous fall-blooming Cymbidium! Wow, what pretty flower shape and color.

I have the Bc. Punakea in full bloom now with another spike on the way.

Elaine, the Bc. Punakea looks great!

A warmth tolerant Cymbidium! Even I can bloom this one!

We arrived back home at 2:30 this morning. Flying United is an adventure! I need to rest, will post tomorrow.

Jim

welcome home, Jim!
.....sounds interesting.

Very nice waxy white Aerangis biloba, Ursula. I love it. Also, your Neostylis Fuchs Ocean Spray is really putting on a show. A very nice group of bloomers.

Elaine, great color on the Bc. Punakea. I may have to look for that one.

Out in the OC, my Brassia Memoria Fritz Boedeker 'Witch Doctor' is blooming nicely. I have had this orchid for several years and it blooms every year at this time.


This NOID Dendrobium is too pretty to pass by.


Blc. Golden Tang is covered with blooms. I think everyone should have this one.


A nice look at Degarmoara Flying High.


Finally, a last look at the NOID Catt.


Jim

How very nice, Jim!

Come to think of it, my Brassia hybrid hasn't said peep this year. We have to have a talk....

I had picked up this tiny Macroclinium manabinum in February from Ecuagenera (edited for name correction)
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
and it is blooming!
If you blink, you miss the event, the blooms are very delicate and small. Pretty! The whole thing fits into the palm of my hand, and the umbels measures about one inch or so.


And this beautifully scented Lc Mini Purple 'Shibuya' SM/JOGA really took off after I mounted it horizontally on African hardwood. ( I picked up some attractive pieces of Mopani hardwood at my local Aquarium store, they are not just for fish tanks, but also used in reptile cages, terrariums and they are really sturdy.) I have another small plant of this, it never grew properly in a pot, I now mounted it too like that.

What a sweet face the Mini Purple has. But those tiny Macroliniums!! They look like jewellry! So much diamond dusting on those petals they are just amazing. Fantastic photos, too of course. It has pretty markings on the leaves, too. A genuine tiny treasure.

re Macroclinium - pretty little thing, isn't it? And it is a warm grower, which is easier for me! I had it now hanging over the fish tanks where it is nice and humid.
I took a couple front-on pictures just now, to show the lip a little better.

After blooming twice a year for three years, mine just frizzled up. I plan on getting another! I find it hard to take photos since they are like fireworks and very 3-D.

Any special tips, Kathy? Looks like you did well, three years and blooming.
Tell me about the photos , I am so glad, we can nowadays delete a few dozen pics and keep just a couple. This one really needed a dark background to show anything.

Ursula!

Not only was I drawn to this sight to ask my question because I have an Orchid question to ask;...but I was looking for a thread with a name I knew.

What pictures and what Orchids I have never seen!

I'm gonna be checking in here to learn now.
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My question is simply; what is this ground type Orchid that a neighbor gave me cuttings from a couple of years ago? This is the very first bloom on many more stalks just starting.

Thank you and anyone reading this that might tell me.

Pretty one, David. Looks like an Epidendrum to me, but Ursula is certainly the authority. a picture of the leaves and/or the whole plant would help with ID.

I have red, orange and yellow ones that look like that. Are your leaves similar to these?

Oh please, no authority here.
Looking at the lip which faces upwards ( non-resupinate) in your picture, my first guess would be Epidendrum secundum (type).
In Epidendrum radicans blooms the lip faces downwards which is normal for most Orchids. ( resupinate).