Hi Lindsey, so nice to see you here on the forum!
What comes to mind seeing your lovely Orchid is Papilionanthe teres, or something along those lines…pretty!!

Carol, the places we visited were a lot cooler than a NJ Summer, that's for sure. You started out with a jacket, took it off around noonish, put it back on as the rain clouds rolled in by afternoon. We only visited the warm lowland on the way back/ driving through.
Here is my link/part of the trip report talking about the climate zones in Ecuador.
http://garden.org/thread/view_...

Hi, Lindsey. I have managed to keep one last Copper Queen, a division from your plant, and it is now loading up with buds. It should pop in a week or so. It will be interesting to see whether the flowers are yellow or coppery in color.

Thanks , Ursula. I'll look at it again.

Everyone's blooms look great! Here are a few.

Paph Ho Chi Minh opened last night and should open a bit more tomorrow. The Bulbo is a primary hybrid and I can't recall the Dendrobium name unless I look it up and I'm too tired at the moment.

Nice Show, Melissa! I love the Paph!!

Ken,
My Copper Queen always opened copper then turned yellow..It will be interesting to see what you get. I grew mine outside in the summer (April -October ) usually then in the greenhouse where the temp was low 60's at night and 80+ during the day. I'll look and see if I can find some photos.
Melissa, your Bulbo is really cool!

The rain that came through yesterday brought a cool front through so we are 77F today! Awesome weather for July!

Lindsay, my Copper Queen just started blooming and there will be more blooms to follow. There is at least one more florescence with buds. The color is a nice, rich copper-bronze. My growing conditions are nearly identical with yours. My 'Emerald Isle' has just started blooming and so far has five flowers, 6-7" in diameter and very fragrant. There are lots of other buds so this specimen plant is going to be loaded. Three years ago, before I divided this plant, she presented me with 34 flowers, starting in September and finishing blooming in early December. The whole house had a wonderful fragrance from that one plant. My Eurychone rothschildiana is also blooming (first time). This is a sub-compact/miniature either mounted on cork or in a small hanging basket.

I will get some pictures of those three plants.

Ken, this is one of the pictures of newly opened flowers...I'm still looking for the bright yellow that
it matured to. This large plant had 5 spikes open at one time with 5 flowers on each spike and what
a spectacle it was! I'm glad you are as happy with it as I was ..I know the postage was astronomical
but what a happy , easy plant you have now!

OK, here goes. Nothing like what's in bloom for many of you, but I will take it.


Gramm scriptum v. 'Kiilani', a compact or perhaps sub-compact

Copper Queen just beginning to open. There is another inflorescence with three buds

Den. NOID. There are two other stems with the same mass of flowers. I couldn't get them all in


One set of flowers has this soft lavender on the fringe of the lip and the other set does not. There are at least two more inflorescences in sheath and bud. Three years ago, before I divided her, she had 34 flowers and was in flower from September until early December

Eurychone rothschildiana, a compact (sub-compact?)

Phal. equestris with three color variations

I have numerous other plants in sheath and/or bud, so it looks like August will be colorful.

Nice show, Ken!! You have a lot blooming there! The Grammatophyllum scriptum bloom is very showy!

My wife loves that one. That is her next painting.

Beautiful!

Love the Eurychone! I have one but it is not doing anything at the moment.

Some stuff blooming this morning, some still going strong, some fresh -

Vandas Peddler's Velvet Gold and Ratchaburi Beauty.

Restrepia antennifera usually blooms somewhere on that clump and Angraecum distichum doesn't have a distinct blooming season either.


I was moving some plants around ( had to clean up an Ant invasion on a plant ) and realized the Bulbo Jersey was blooming. This one is echinolabium x lobbii and doesn't have any scent.

This plain old Neofinetia falcata does well mounted and always blooms when the fancy Neos are pretty much done.

If you are looking for the easiest Orchid to grow and bloom, Prosthechea cochleata has to be it. The plant is rarely without blooms.

Fabulous show, you sure can thank the ants for helping you discover that gorgeous bloomer!

How I wish for a whiff of the beautiful Neo. falcata scent. Mine is so tiny, but growing. I fear it may be years before I see a flower even though it was sold to me as 'blooming size'. Hah.

Hey, Lindsey! It's good to have you back with us!

Wow, so many flowers for us to admire.

Melissa, although I don't have any fond memories of Ho Chi Minh, his namesake Paph is a winner. Very nice indeed. Nice Bulbo too but it looks like a stinker.

Ken, great show! I'm quite fond of the little Eurychone rothschildiana. Nice flower on the Grammatophylum. I repotted mine last year as the wires were rusting through and I don't even have a spike forming at this time. I guess when you repot, you can expect to lose a year of blooms.

Ursula, I'm glad to see some beautiful Vanda flowers as all of mine seem to be marching in place for a couple of years now. I just don't know what is wrong. Very pretty Neofinetia falcate as well.

A couple of new blooms out in the OC yesterday and a couple of updates to go with them. First up is Aliceara Sunday Best X Rst. bictoniense.


Then there is this NOID Dancing Lady Oncidium.


Update on Stlma. Kelly 'Lea'. I love the color on this one.


Finally, the big elephant in the greenhouse is still Lc. White Spark 'Panda'.


Jim

Ohhhh, beautiful!! Jim, that big "Elephant" is still a showstopper!
Btw some Vandas can be stubborn to bloom, so I have been told. I seem to be doing best with those from local growers, perhaps they were divisions from flowered plants, I don't know. You certainly have the perfect conditions for Vandas.

Jim, I love the color on Stlma. Kelly 'Lea', too! And all my vandas seem to want to bloom through the winter. The last two winters when I've had to carry them back and forth inside during cold spells I've had so many blooming. But during this heat I get nothing from them. And I bought them at all different times of the year, but they seem to have made up their mind not to bloom until the weather cools.