Many people do, Elaine!

Carol, nice Show, love the Coelogyne and I really could flip for the Trichopilia suavis, what a beauty! Yours is very lightly colored, so delicate!

Thank you! The Coel. is a very straggly, ugly plant in my environment, but still it blooms. I'm very happy with the Trichopilia suavis. I may have to try some of the other ones.

Lovely Carol. We still need to meet up. Are you going to the Santa Barbara Show?

Probably not. You have my Phone#. Call when you're in the neighborhood.

Every year I sulk about the Santa Barbara show
Carol, love that Cym. Of course.

Why sulk. It is a little warmer here, and the way things go around here with rain, after our recent storms,we aren't due for any for about 2 years. Show is a week from this Friday. If you go, Lynda and I will pick up Carol and meet you there.

It's a nice dream!
I did go to Redlands last year. Check that off the dream list.

I'm still trying to get her to come to Tampa where Elaine, Melanie and I will take her to Apopka.

Slow day here on the orchid thread. Lovely day, cool and crisp, so I spent some time out in the OC. This may be the first bloom on Phal. amboinensis 'white' X Phal. gigantea. I guess it hasn't been named yet. I've had it for years but have no record of ever blooming it.


Smbc. Dulatiaca 'Lava Flow' AM/AOS is now in full bloom. You may want to wear sunglasses to look at this one.


A last look at the fully open but fading C. maxima.


I think these pics capture the purple on Zygo. Advance Australia AMAOS very well.


Finally, an artsy picture of Den spectabile. I tried to frame the flowers in a window pane that was reflecting across the OC and out the windows into the yard. Oh well, easy to delete.


Jim

Back from a birthday party here, the twins are going to be 7 years old this week!
Pretty show here!!
I like the artsy shot of your Dendrobium spectabile, Jim! Don't delete it, it is pretty cool!
I love the Phal!

Actually, it's really cool Jim! It's incredibly hard to get a decent picture of those flowers.

But to be honest, that Phal is absolutely bee-yew-tee-ful. What an amazing pattern of spots.

You're so right, things are very slow right now. All my bloomers except Green Hornet are fading and I have hardly anything coming along except a tiny Phal and some Epi's that are taking their time.

I took some pics this morning -
Lc Tropical Pointer 'Cheetah' opens two speckled blooms


Epc Kyoguchi x L Seagulls Tangerine opens a branched spike, some early blossoms here


And, I couldn't resist taking some more shots from the Pot. Redheart 'Neptune', this time in nice sunshine.


A tiny spike on the new Asctm Mona Church


And did I mention that I love the color on the Lyonara?

Looking back, that Trichopilia suavis is outstanding, Carol. I love it and will add it to my want list.

Great show, Ursula. My favorite is Epc Kyoguchi x L Seagulls Tangerine which I will also add to my want list. Epicatts do well for me. I also love the color of Lyonara.

I'm just back from church and am off again to sing at the John Knox Village Assisted Living Home with a group called the Friendship Singers.

I can't believe the twins are 7 years old already. I think we were back on DG when they came into the world.

Jim

I like the pattern on that Phal. too, Jim. Very different. And Ursula, the color on your Asctm Mona Church is so delicate and beautiful!

Slow orchid time here, too. But everything else is coming into bloom so I guess I shouldn't complain. I'll be overrun with caterpillars before I know it! I've already seen several species that are uncommon this early in the year. Weather in Florida sure can vary from year to year! Oh, and Dad said the oak tree hovering above my shade house is apparently getting pollen on everything below it. I may have to take a hose to the shade house. I'm not sure the orchids would like to be covered in someone else's pollen.

Hey, you might get a really weird hybrid.

I'm not worrying about it, and mine certainly have pollen all over them. Seems like it would be a natural thing to happen to orchids in most places, Melanie.

Most orchids in the 'wild' survive on nutrients from the stuff that falls from the trees, right? It might be really nutritious - we can only hope!

Forgot to add, those are all my favorite colors, Ursula, especially the little Ascda. It's really tiny, isn't it. Had not realized until I saw the label in the picture for scale.

Hmm. That Epi. Kynoguchi X L. seagulls Tangerine just went on my want list. Very pretty!

I just found a few while watering----
Pot. Cameron's Magnatism Has three spikes open and the division is starting too. Blc. Picotee Passion has opened it' first flower, And Laelia Gouldiana has graced me with a late spike.

Carol, very nice blooms! I love the picotee on the Picotee Passion, so pretty!

The Asctm Mona Church is supposed to be a hybrid of miniatum x ampullaceum. I am saying "supposed to be" since most miniatums are really garayi or whatever, not miniatum. But - I like these type of hybrids very much, this one is so little and blooms already. I picked it up at the recent Deep Cut Orchid Show in the beginning of February together with a few more little ones like that.

Talking about stuff falling from overhead trees into our Orchids - finally last year I was able to convince the adjoining back yard neighbor to cut down a bunch of diseased trees which rained all Summer black-spotted leaves into the Orchid cage. I was so happy when these trees finally came down and I didn't have to pick that stuff daily out of my Orchids.

Ursula, From what I've found on line, you got the pick of the crop with Epc. Kynoguchi X L. Seagulls Tangerine. Most are a deep orange, and I don't need any more orange. Will you leave it in a pot, or mount it? Actually Picotee Passion is also from SVO. I've had about 50/50 luck with their plants. Some do really well for me, and some just sit there. I think I will swear off seedlings. I want to know what I'm getting.

Some more stuff in bloom here today! I spent some time moving my larger, very heavy Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' to the front, which involved a whole bunch of Orchid - moving. We should have a nice show again this year.
This one here is now a small division of my large plant which I let Silva Orchids chop apart last Spring. ( a second plant)


Lc Rojo continues to open


Laelia mantiqueira is a cute little rupicolous Laelia with sparkling little blooms held on a tall spike


Phrag schlimii continues to bloom


One of the spikes of the Dialaelia Mizoguchi 'Princess Kiko' is still blooming, but it is ready to go


And the Dendrobium nobile is a happy plant right under the ceiling

Carol, I got my Epc x from Fishing Creek Orchids/ Harrisburg PA some years ago and it is growing in a clay-pot. Hmm, I guess I did get lucky with that one. I like it.
I think Picotee Passion goes on my wish list. I picked up a couple of things from SVO, one of them is their Trichopilia Suave Margin which I really like.