Hmm. I think the ones with the black background are always good, I like the last one in the first row is the best. I think that's what you really see.

Bert, I still maintain that looks like a silk plant and isn't real. It's just too perfect!

Bert, that is a lovely orchid ! And great photo, too!

This is a C walkeriana x LC Puppy Love, smells strongest in early mornings. I had puppy love plants in the early 80's but I don't remember the fragrance being as delightful as this LC Ann Agaki 'H&R' HCC/AOS.

Thanks for the feed back! Btw the bloom is slightly scented, a bit musky.

The LC Ann Agaki 'H&R' HCC/AOS looks too perfect to be real….

Ursula, the Embreea is just fantastic. I like the photos with the dark background, too.

Bert, the little pink Ann Akagi really does look perfect, but my goodness it has such very short stems on those large flowers!

Speaking of strong fragrance, I was cooling off in the pool this morning after gardening and smelled a wonderful sweet scent, turns out it was from the two flowers on my little Volcano Queen, over 6ft. away, outdoors with a breeze blowing! I hope the raccoons don't raid the place tonight because of that delicious scent!

Charlie was very proud of his Vandas (which I hope these are them). He said they grew very well up the trunks of Foxtail Palms.

How very pretty, Glen! I always wish I could do that!

Elaine, I would take that pretty Volcano Queen inside to enjoy the lovely scent!

That Volcano Queen is a looker, Elaine, and the fragrance is a bonus.

Glen, the first picture is certainly a Vanda but the second one leaves me puzzled. Do you have any more pictures of it?

Some new flowers out in the OC:
First up is Den. Green Elf X Den. Andreé Millar. I looked it up and it is not registered.


Then there is Den. Chan-Chao.


No name change here, this is still Brassavola tuberculata:


If you like really bright red, I give you Epi. Pacific Rivalry:


Here is Epidendrum [Epi.] Green Hornet, also called Encyclia Green Hornet and now called Prosthechea [Psh] Green Hornet. No, I'm not saying a word.


Finally, Epc. René Marqués 'Tyler' is back in bloom after a short break.


Jim

Beautiful blooms, Jim!
I just love the red Epidendrum!! Gorgeous color! And that is a really cool bloom on the Den. Chan-Chao.

My Epc. René Marqués is now done blooming! ( I have the 'Flamethrower')

Wonderful, Jim. I really like the stripey lip on Den. Green Elf X Den. Andreé Millar.

I've had a plant of Den. Andree Millar for 3 years and have only ever seen one flower, but I imagine that's where the striping came from. Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I should look at re-potting it or something . . . It's surely not happy. Well, one of two things will happen, I can kill it or cure it.

Jim, here are more pictures of that orchid.

Thanks, Glen. That's a very interesting Vanda. I like it.

Jim

I dug around a bit yesterday trying to get a name of sorts. ….

So, what is better than one Embreea rodigasiana?
Two of course!!

simply outstanding.

Jim

They are amazing and just beautiful, Ursula. Are they related to the Gongoras? The lip has a bit of the look of those funny little Pterodactyls.

Elaine, the synonym is Stanhopea rodigasiana. So I would think more Stanhopea than Gongora. But if it comes to the weirdness scale,
it ranks right up there with both!

I looked it up when that first bud just puffed and puffed.
http://www.orchidspecies.com/e...

I am now waiting on a second bud on a Coryanthes. I looked it over the other day, wondering why it didn't bloom yet and unfortunately it did bloom, but despite having it in a mesh basket, it didn't push through. Darn! So I cut away the basket and just suspended it as is with coconut fiber around the roots, and I will fashion a basket from the wire fence material. That seems to work well for these type of Orchids for me.

I spent a couple of hours in the orchid shack yesterday cleaning up, watering, spraying, and trashing what the heat wave killed. Here is whats left that's photo worthy.
Lycaste deppi superb, Laelia X still looks good, Lycaste consobrina


The resturant reject Phal that my son paid $2 for is still in it's spagnum sleeve but has a branch. Encyclia adenocaula, Slc. Aloha jewelX C. Orchidglade


Brassanthe 'Bill Worsley' is shedding it's flowers now, but still looks good

Carol, so beautiful I love them all, but the Encyclia adenocaula really stands out for me!
What are the temperatures now?