sugarcane said:Gigi...if you see one buy it for me and I'll come get it! and maybe stop by Apopka on the way

Lindsey I will be on the look out of it for you.


Lots of beautiful blooms Ursula but that mini Vanda in the pot is the best!

Jim, congratulations and you will be great at it!!! I will ask my co-worker who attends the Tampa Orchid meeting to say Hello to you!

Ursula, what a lovely little Darwinara, the color, the shape, just everything, and do tell about that pot.

I was at Lowes the other day and they had Better Gro baggies again! I bought two Den lindleyi to replace the one that died a year ago. Then I posted to my MOS FB page and our club went over and pretty much cleaned them out!

It has been a couple of years since I have seen them there so it was nice to see a comeback.

Nothing really blooming for me right now, but lots of spikes. Hoping for some good blooms very soon.

a vanda in a pot...now there's a vanda I could get excited about! That does have great color Ursula!

Gigi..I'm standing by!

Regarding the mini Vanda - this one came from Silva Orchids and they had it potted up in small Orchiata/small bark. The plant looked happy so far and so I left it alone.
You are looking at a plant with Neofinetia falcata in its parentage, so this one is just a slightly larger blue flowering Neofinetia hybrid.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
And both parents are Neofinetia (renamed to Vanda) falcata hybrids.

I like these Neo hybrids, they are pretty and easily manageable. I keep them sunny in the greenhouse and during our Summer they are a bit protected in the cage and that corner blocks some of the noon time sun under a Cherry tree.

I agree. The little neo-Vandas do well for me too. They are much easier to care for than the big ones.

Jim

This cute window sill size Grt. Why Not bloomed last October and here it is again with a new spike.


and in the re-runs department...Jfk. Apple blossom 'NN' and ?

Pretty!

I'm late to the "show" since I am occupied at the Asheville Orchid Expo/AOS Spring meeting. Jim, can I write you in in November?

Lindsey, your mystery orchid looks a lot like my Appleblossom 'Lemon Pie'.

It does look similar, Alice... I really love this one and it has a beautiful fragrance as well!

Finally home, and boy, does this humid air feel good! Can't wait to see what's going on out in the cage and garden but this one, Star Ruby 'Xanadu' hit me in the eye and nose when I went out the door even in the dark! In the first picture the two flowers were completely overlapped, and I couldn't quite figure out why that flower looked so big. Second pic I separated them so the dorsal sepal is sort of bent forward on the left one.



Den. aggregatum saved a few flowers for me, such a sweet thing!

It is always nice to be home again, right?
Nice blooms to greet you!

Welcome home Elaine!

I've been playing 'catch-up" with all the posts, and drooling all over my keyboard!

I have a few things going too:

This is Den. Yellow Song 'Canary' and a little keiki of it that I mounted a couple of years ago:


Epi. radicans:


Dem. anceps:


my little jewel orchid, ludisia discolor I believe:


A pretty big orchid I got from Jim at Florida Suncoast Orchids. I love the colors!
Den. Palolo Heart (Den. Hawaiian Heart x Den. Ahulani Hinojosa)


A tiny little mounted phal that does not have a name. I love the way the buds are pointed like teardrops!


And another NOID pahl getting started:

These either belong to my friend Marisa or I took them at our Orchid Society meeting last month (before my batteries died at the worst time...we had some GORGEOUS plants and I could only capture a few. Grrrrr...)

Marisa's:




From the OS:


This one put my Yellow Song to shame!


I couldn't get over the size of this plant...it's on a 4 1/2 ft stand!

Gorgeous, Patty! Let's be sure to go to the Orchid meeting on May 2nd? I will be home for sure then.

I didn't even remember buying this Den. superbum but here it is blooming for me after I exiled it to the garden for cold/dry treatment this winter. It has two nice new canes starting up, as well.

YES Elaine, for sure...I HAVE to go to this meeting because they are doing a re-potting thing and the pres said I could bring my baskets to sell! I think my son's friend is going to come so he can help me out with the containers of baskets...would you like to ride with us this time?

Isn't the Superbum the same as a Hono Hono and Den. Anosmum??? Mine is very confused this year because of the odd winter we had...only 2 canes made flowers and the others are all naked, AND it's already making it's new canes! The Cuculatta (I have to check the spelling of that) is the same kind of Dendrobium, just a different color, and it's very late this year but it is setting blooms along all the canes, with no new canes forming yet!



You can see all the sprouting blooms on this one.


Here's what I was doing last week (helping a friend who didn't know where to start!) Before and After:

Here is what they both looked like last year"

I think I need to catch up here, you all were busy , busy!!

Patty, what you call Ludisia discolor is not Ludisia discolor, but... I grew that plant many years ago, check out Ledebouria socialis.
Nice show, your Dendrobium anceps has a lot of blooms/ growth!

Elaine, nice blooms on your Den superbum!

According to Kew Den anosmum and superbum are the same and they are the Honohono Orchid. And they smell awesome!!

Beautiful blooms I have a lot of that ledebouria socialis also called silver quill. I think it is in the succulents.