Karin! Lovely photo!

Wish I had that orchid. Good to see you over here too, Karin.

We love the Aerangis luteo alba var rhodosticta too. We have two and both are in spike right now. Waiting for the blooms makes me impatient!

Here is another that takes forever to develop, but when it blooms it is oh so nice. Stanhopea embreei.

So intricate. Splendid.

the Stanhopea embreei! The scent has to be lovely too!

Light rain and 93, humidity up and away! The camera on my IPad is fogging up, but here are repeats, I was hoping for better light.
Lc Puppy Love 'Hawaii' is first bloom sdly for me.
BLC Bryce Canyon 'S' an old favorite for its bright colors
BLC Willette Wong 'The Best' I got in bud from Hausermann's, well worth the shipping with three blooms and four lead plant.
Still not enough light!

Beautiful blooms, Roberta! I can relate to your weather...except for the rain! 94F here, with 49% humidity! Ugh! for me, but the plants look like they're enjoying it! Send some of the rain down my way, would you!?!?!

Great flowers, Bert. Like you, rain is in the forecast every day for the next five days. We had a really severe thunderstorm yesterday, early PM, and it really popped with lightening, wind gusts of 50 mph, and 2" of rain.

Wonderful Show, Roberta! I love the color on the Lc Puppy Love 'Hawaii' !

Bert, your 'Puppy Love' is a little bit like my Mount Hood 'Orchidglade'.

bright light, 2012
shade, 2013

I'm really liking that one, Ken! Can it beat Lc Puppy Love with fragrance too?

Jim, I'm thinking LC Puppy Love is a very old cross, because I remember 'True Beauty' as one of my favorites way back, I'm thinking 70's.

I think the 'Orchidglade' is very fragrant, but it is a fall bloomer, so I can't remember for sure. Many of my orchids have become twice-a-year bloomers, but so far, the 'Orchidglade' only blooms yearly. I am hopeful.

These orchids don't have quite the mauve/lavender/fuchsia of the 'Orchidglade' (there are so many variations of these three color names, I never know what to call these colorations). My wife, who is the artist in the family, says the color is either lilac or ultramarine pink. Whatever the color is (I'll let more knowledgeable folks with an artist's eye name it), I love some the variations of this primary color. And I thought the nomenclature was confusing.....

Right on, Roberta. Lc. Puppy Love (C. Dubiosa (1890) x L. anceps) was hybridized in 1970.

Ken, how did that Phal sneak into the catt pen? Wonderful color to brighten my day.

Melissa, beautiful Stanhopea embreei and I can almost smell it from here. You are tempting me to take another shot at growing Stanhopeas.

Jim

I was kind of going by color (whatever colors these would be called) rather than genera.

Ken, I'm no artist, but I would call those colors all variations of what my mother called "orchid pink" appropriately enough.

If the artists go by the colors on their paint tubes, well, my box of Crayolas has one called "orchid" too! It's exactly the shade of my little Den. bigibbum flowers.

Elaine, my wife says that artist's color is ultramarine pink, or at least very close to it. I will leave this question to those who understand and use colors. As I said, I am lost when it comes to accurately using color terms.

Ken I really like your speckled Phal too. Speckled and Freckled blooms are a favorite of mine.

Got this Trichoglottis philippines 3 years ago, and it finally bloomed. It lookes like a little face looking back at you.

Certainly a lot of pretty color here and some very nice forms too!! Good growing, Ken!!

Mj, nice Trichoglottis bloom. I wish mine would start saying peep.....

Beautiful sunny and comfortable Summer weather this year here in NJ, no complaints so far.
Vanda Sansai Blue 3N opened up this week. I lost the mother plant a few years ago, but this keiki is doing ok.
There are a few confused Wasps buzzing around the Vandas, probably responsible for the occasional small hole.

And the some of the Neos keep on blooming.