Pretty, as always!
I do love that parrot sketch! Monty Python always cracked me up.

I took pictures in the greenhouse, when I came back from the dentist.
Didn't hurt a bit, except she had a most uncomfortable headrest on that dentist chair. Next time I come with my own pillow.......

Will now look at what is in my camera!

Ok here we go:
This little Aerangis citrina is with me for many years and hangs on. Two small spikes this year, so tiny!


I posted the Asctm Mona Church the other day, more buds are coming along


When I bought the Dendrobium smilliae a few years ago, I was really hoping to rebloom this beauty. We are doing ok!


Another look at the Epc Kyoguchi x L Seagulls Tangerine, I hope you admire my repotting skills…..


Two plants of Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' - the first is a small division of my older large plant. Silva Orchid divided it for me and I kept a piece, which took off nicely last Summer for me. The second plant was my smaller one….
Both plants have a bunch more spikes to open.


Lc Rojo again - progressing nicely


Laelia mantiqueira - I like it a lot


Oberonia toppingii is opening these pendulous spikes from the tips, the individual blooms are barely visible with the naked eye.


Slc Hazel Boyd 'Debbie'


Take a look at the pot containing the (dormant?)Habenaria medusa, they are coming to life! Two tiny tips!


Sedirea japonica - for some reason I seem to be able to hang on to this plant for a few seasons now, after killing quite a few through the years.


There are lots of my alba Epi secundum spikes right now,

and the purple noid secundum x shows some blooms too


and Gongora Pterodactyl continues to produce spike after spike


Whew! Hopefully you enjoy them as much as I do!

Wonderful show, Ursula. It makes me want to go out to the OC and heck on my Habenaria medusa but I'm afraid it is too dark. Great blooms on Sedirea japonica. I love it. Good repotting ingenuity on the Epc Kyoguchi x L Seagulls Tangerine. Whatever works! I don't know what my Dendrobium smilliae var. alba is doing but I'm not impressed. It may be time to threaten it with drastic action.

Out under the oak tree, Cym. Cotton Club 'Winter Princess' is putting on a show.


Lots of blooms on the Arundina graminifolia. Interestingly, the plant in the ground seems to be doing better than the one in the pot.


Cym Leodogran 'Cradlemont' continues to be the big show stopper out there.


Phaius Nun's Cap is blooming


The nursery where I bought the palm tee today gave me an Epi. today. They are such nice people. Anyway the flowers are small but I thought the color was unique.


Jim

Thanks, Jim.
That is some gorgeous Epi you picked up there! Looks great!
You are doing very well with those Cyms. I love the Phaius! Beautiful Arundina.

That Mona Church is still impressing me! And Slc Hazel Boyd 'Debbie' is so bright I might have to adjust the color on my screen! Great job everyone!

I don't have anything blooming but Mom's orchids in her bathroom are. I was trying to nap the other day and she felt the need to bring one in and show me. I'll try to remember to go take some pictures soon.

Serious cymbidium envy here! None of mine are showing any signs of blooming. Maybe they're just months behind yours, like my Phaius are? I just do not get it. (except that they may be sulking from being re-potted? )

Ursula, a treat to see your pretty 'chids, especially the little Sedirea - I got one last fall, and mounted it on some cork, it has attached nicely to the cork, so that is encouraging.

Thanks so much, Elaine and Melanie!

I gave up growing these large Cymbies years ago, but when I see these warm tolerant plants in their full glory here, I am sure tempted to pick up another Showgirl!

Ursula, tell me about it. And I can bloom them!

I can't even get my truly good size Cym ensifolium to cooperate! It has to be a dud….. at least in my hands…..

Most of my ensifoliums don't bloom, they are hard. Best are the ensifolium crosses! But I can hardly contain my excitement over the Cym. goeringii that is in SPIKE and should bloom any day now (slow as molasses but keeps getting bigger!) I'd say this is my biggest orchid accomplishment EVER!

I would be tickled pink!!

Fantastic shows, Ursula and Jim! Too many to mention individuals.

Only my phals are doing anything right now. Here is the Dtps. Luchia 'Pink'.

Pretty one, Ken!

Just wandering around the forums and came across this beautiful orchid parade of blooms, lovely!
I noticed many are not posted in the database, we really would love to fill in some of these blank spots! The images are easy to import right from the threads here when you enlarge them, you can import your own or even someone else's.

Sue, I truly have no objections regarding my images to be added to the database.
I just got so discouraged to see many wrongly identified Orchids entered into the DG data base, that I, myself simply didn't see the point then of adding my images to it. But- surely this is now different here… I see that Katie has stepped up to the plate and started to add my "stuff" , it is certainly fine with me. It certainly would be a whopper of a job to start adding mine? Scares me a bit…

It is just a matter of time for me. If someone wants to import my images, have at it. Accuracy should not be a problem but understand that the DNA folks will change the names at the drop of a hat.

Jim

Over on DG, it is a hodgepodge and a mess, I agree Ursula. I tried working on it a bit, reporting errors but it's just too overwhelming.
Over here, admin tries really hard to make sure things are correct and if members find errors, they are easy to report and we try to be quick about fixing things. If someone here is comfortable about orchid info and ID's, they would be an invaluable asset in assisting in the Orchid Databases. Ursula? Anyone can submit data proposals to flesh out the details. Perhaps someone would want to add details for the plants they own, using their inventory list.
For instance, Jim, if you go to your profile, click on the images you have contributed, you can add each one to your inventory list by clicking on the blue 'Add this Plant to your List' button. If you check my profile page, you can see that I have created multiple inventory lists for the plants I have. You can add notes to the plants and even print out the lists.
It would be a shame to let these beautiful images 'disappear' in the threads, much nicer to share them in the database for everyone to see. By the way, Dave has disabled the right-click/copy function when someone enlarges the database images so they can't be lifted and used elsewhere.

P.S. Katie is Dave's oldest child and she and her brother Jon have been enjoying adding to the database and cruising around the forums. They just added a new baby sister to the family about 3 hours ago!

Sue, coming at this from the other direction, I'm a dummy - an inexperienced orchid grower compared to Ursula and Jim, but have a few nice orchids that I am sure of the names on. I tried what you suggested and clicked on the "Add to Database" link at the base of one of my pictures. It turned out to be not so simple.

I entered the name, and got "no match". Ok, so that orchid isn't in the database. Then I entered just "Encyclia" which is an orchid variety with many different cultivars. Still no match.

Then I entered just "Orchid". What came up was a list of common names of orchids like "Bamboo orchid" and "Nun's Orchid" and "Florida Butterfly Orchid". Well, the Florida Butterfly Orchid is an encyclia, (so there IS an encyclia in the database . . ) but this one I was going to enter doesn't have a common name so it's not on the list. I don't know how to add it.

Am I looking in the wrong place to add a specific orchid type? I think an orchid database needs to have sub-categories for at least the most common orchids like Cattleya, Laelia, Phalaenopsis, Vanda, Encyclia, Epidendrum, Dendrobium etc. Still it will get complicated by orchids that are crosses of the common types, eg. a "Blc" is a Brassolaeliocattleya. Where's that going to go?

What I'm saying is unless someone starts a 'framework' for an orchid database, it's doomed to become a hodgepodge like the one at DG. In fact the list with the common names of orchids already IS a bit of a hodgepodge. There are just so many types and crosses of orchids and most of them don't have common names! They come with tags that say "Brass. David Sander X Rhyncholaelia digbyana"