Chris, I'm so happy for you...will ya look at all those buds!..the color on that plants leaves looks great!

Thanks Lindsey, I hope I can keep them going now through the hot summer.

I think rescue orchids are always over-achievers.

Because:

They managed to live, so are rewarding you bountifully for saving them?

Or they lived because they were over-achievers?

That is the question....

Wow Chris that will be a beauty!

Chris, you have put a lot of work into those rescue plants and they are thanking you now. You will be enjoying those flowers for months. Good growing.

Thanks Daisy, Gigi and Alice, I guess I have put a lot of work into these but a lot of the credit for getting these where they are goes to some great people here at ATP when I first brought these guys home from Walmart last June.

Finally my pretty Phaius 'Ocktoberfest' has opened its first flower. (sorry, I posted these on another thread by mistake)

Very, very pretty.

Very nice Phaius, Elaine.

Jim

Oh, that is nice!!

No problem, Elaine, I just deleted the extras! Perhaps Carol / @ctcarol will respond again here in this thread.😊

Sure. It's still beautiful!

Love that one , Elaine ! Have you had it long?...do you remember where you got it?

Yep, Lindsey, I got it from Rafael at Plantio la Orquidea here in Sarasota, but I must admit I've had my eye out for more Phaius since then (maybe 3 yr. ago) and haven't seen any. Chapman's up in Apopka used to carry lots of Phaius, too.

You still need to get down for a visit to Plantio, Tropiflora and Selby. The next Festival at Tropiflora is the first weekend in April. It's fairly likely I'll be out of town (greeting the new grandbaby in Salt Lake City) but you and Jim should certainly get on down here!

In the meanwhile, I took some pictures today, playing with ultra tiny blooms.
Remember the Oberonia toppingii? The whole clump of fans is smaller than the palm of my hand. The individual blooms are the size of small pinheads!!

Buds at the tail end of the dangling spikes, ready to pop

And here are some attempts to show details of open "blooms"


Another mini is this Maxillaria minuta with is yearly flush of tiny blooms which are less than a cm in size

And a third one is Ceratostylis philippinensis with its teensy numerous white blooms.

Nice job on the photos, Ursula.

Jim

Thanks, Jim!

What lovely little plants, Ursula. The flowers are so sweet.

(and thanks for correcting my boo boo with the Phaius photos)

These plants are amongst the group of small species which I have hanging over the fish tank for extra humidity. Every so often I pour the fish tank water over them. Seems ok.

Just beautiful flowers and great photography, Ursula.

Really nice photography and extra special really nice tiny orchids.