Lindsey is blinking..... I don't blame you one bit.
After growing the lindleyi for quite a few years I managed to stumble across the jenkinsii at a show. I simply snapped it up because I was curious what the difference between them was. I was remembering Maypop Laurel years ago discussing these plants and their size, and me going to measure mine.

This tiny Paph Mystic Isle opened a cute bloom over the weekend. I like the two green dots!

Have you seen Bart Motes' very informative video here?


I made it a sticky.

And blinking that it might ( after all the conversation) be ok to call it aggregatum!

Ursula, I haven't watched the video, though I probably will, just for fun, but I live your little Paph.!

Thanks Carol!
Do you all use this Kew garden checklist to check what is the accepted name of a species or the synonym?
http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/prepa...
Accepted names are in bold letters.

Lindsey, I just found where you asked me to look up a couple more names for you. The first one you gave me is Bl. Richard Mueller X C. fascelis. It is still not registered so you must still use the parents names but there is another problem. Change the Bl. on Richard Mueller to Bc. Then the problem: There is no C. fascelis. There is a C. Fascelis and a C. x fascelis and they are completely different. C. Fascelis is a hybrid orchid as indicated by the capital "F". C. x fascelis is a naturally occurring cross that is considered a species. The x between the genus and species name means naturally occurring and the small "f" indicates it is a species. Look again at the tag and try to decide if it says C. Fascelis or C. x fascelis. I looked up all possible combinations and it is not registered.

The second one is a mess too. There is no such orchid as Blc. Carolina Orange. First of all it is now an Rth. but it must be Carolina Orange D'Or or Carolina Orange Glow. Also, note the spelling and genus change of Ctt. Anduril. Once again I ran all possible combinations and it is not registered so no name. I hope this helps.

Jim

Yikes, Jim! Sometimes seems like OrchidWiz provides (a version of) clarity. Then sometimes it provides us with . . . all that.

I think I need another adult beverage.
The first one is a Krull-Smith hand written tag..looking at the photo of it..it is clearly a Capital 'F'...a little knowledge can be trouble...I probably thought it was some foreign language ...like Latin..so therefore must be a lower case 'f'.

The 2nd one is also from K- S and definitely Carolina Orange Glow x Anduril... thank's for the spelling correction on that one...the font they use is not the best, as the dot above the I is connected to the I.
You'll have to send me a bill for all this sleuthing!

Hi everyone! I haven't been doing much gardening-by-computer lately as I'm trying to get as much done as possible outside before I start my summer hibernation.

I gave the front of my ex-husbands house a face-lift (he lives next door) for him...

BEFORE:



AFTER:





I've also been working on my side yard, and re-arranging a paver patio--had to move them away from the GIANT stump of a bishofia (?) tree that I had to have removed because it was beginning to interfere with my foundation, even though I LOVED it because it shaded my bedroom and entire roof from the harsh afternoon-to-sunset relentless sun! Now it's just a mess, and my room gets HOT, HOT, HOT!!


I do have a few little orchids in bloom (I can't even take credit, most things are fending for themselves right now!)

my Mother's Day gift to myself opened a third bloom...and there has been NO color change (as someone suggested might happen when I posted before)


While taking a breather, and looking around, as I worked on the side yard I spotted something purple up in the ficus tree...it turned out to be a bloom on a noid schom. that I didn't even realize was in spike for the first time since I've had it (about 5 years or more!).


This one is pretty faithful, but the blooms didn't seem to last very long this time, less than a week I think!


And this guy is SO much happier since I moved him from the front of the house to the side of the house where he's getting some afternoon sun:


That's all for now!

Nice face-lift, Patty, and for an EX at that. Gosh.

Your orchids are doing wonderfully well. Boy that huge tree was almost against the house. Are you leaving the stump to simply rot?

geese Patty..you've been busy as a one armed paper hanger over there! The before and after pictures show all your effort...but I'm with Ken on the reaction...you are a better person than I am...( and maybe your ex is a better man than mine! )
My Golden Peacock gets a richer shade of yellow/orange as it goes on..but the two things I love most about the plant is how long the blooms last and how generous a bloomer it is.

I will simply say that the work was done for "community-enhancement", and leave it at that.

Patty, what a wonderful lady you are! That looked like work!

I love your gorgeous bloomers, that Schom is a beauty. The Lc Schillerana looked a bit like a pretty L. purpurata to me, so I looked it up at RHS. Interesting!
Have a look if you like
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Hmm, it doesn't let me post the link, only if I click on one of the Hybrids. Just type Schilleriana into the Grex line and hit search.

Patty now gets to admire her work because she lives right next-door. Plus, from what I've seen she gets along well with her Ex, which is pretty neat.

It's really beautiful, Patty. Let me know if you need more plants . . . ? Weather's supposed to be less humid for a couple more days, then we'll be going into summer dormancy. (the people, not the plants)

You guys are too funny! When my ex and I got divorced (on our 18th anniversary) we already owned the house next door, I said to him at the time, "We don't have to hate each other just because we can't figure out how to love each other anymore...and the best thing for our son (who was 12 at the time) is to be close to each other." It was rough for the first few years I'll admit, but I set 3 goals for myself...1) I was not going to stoop to his level, 2) I was going to set a good example for our son, and 3) when it was all said and done I was going to be able to look at myself in a mirror. Mission Accomplished!
Nowadays we are pretty good friends. He takes care of my Honey-Do list and I feed him...a lot! We must have dinner together 4 or 5 nights a week! We spend holidays together, he brings me with him to his family's gatherings...etc.
Actually we get along better now than before and he certainly spends more time with me now than he did while we were married....but the best part of all is that now when he's being a jerk---I can just send him home! I would recommend married people give it a try....it makes life so much easier!

Back to plants...

No, Ken, I'm not going to just let the stump rot...that's just an invitation to the termites! Like serving up a buffet for them! The boys have been running a small stump grinder on it when they have to rent one for a job...that's why I had to move all the pavers. At this rate it's gonna take half a lifetime before it's gone...And its not quite as close as it looks...but yes, it's close.


(You can see the patio I've started with the pavers!)


Ursula, I went to that website, and put in the grex (whatever that is) that you suggested, and I found pages of information I couldn't make heads nor tails out of...and I plinked around a while before giving up and figured I didn't need to know a bit of the information that I couldn't even understand!

Holy cow, Patty, that was one huge tree for sure. I am glad a limb did not crash through your roof during stormy weather.

We had our monthly orchid meeting yesterday and I came home with a couple of plants..this one bloomed this morning..Blc. American Freedom 'Crystelle' AM/AOS


and blooming for the 2nd time this year Rlc. Seto Rainbow 'Fantasy'



this one has the (annoying to me) habit of holding the blooms straight up to the sky..making it tough to get a decent picture of the crazy colors!

and at the end of our meeting we each were given a beautiful plant and I got this very cute
Epi. Lovely Valley ' Usubeni'

Good haul, Lindsey.