Your orchids will be glad to see you Jim. Bet you'll have some nice new blooms.

Jim, I understand! I always like to travel someplace interesting, but then I am happy to be home again! ( But then nowadays the thought of hanging around for hours at airports is becoming less and less appealing.)

Have a safe and uneventful trip back home, Jim. The heat and humidity awaits you.

yup...it's brutal here! Have a great trip back!
Ted, I'm with you...I would much rather see a large specimen plant with a mess of spikes covered in blooms!
Even when a huge plant gets TOO HUGE...rather than cut it into quarters, I'll just cut it in half.

If I eliminated 90% of my orchids, I could do that!

Jim, it will be like Christmas morning when you get home. Bet you'll have lots of orchid surprises.

Understood, Ken, understood. Either that or buy the next property

Have a safe trip Jim. Watch out for those road idiots. They are not like ochidiots

A good investment, Ted?

Ken...
in your defense ...you are in business ..it's impractical to try and grow specimen plants to sell...unless you are also showing...and have smaller blooming size plants of the specimen available to sell.
The rest of us have the (luxury ) of growing (fewer ) but larger plants. Handy man Steve has been put on notice that I will need another bench or two as my new collection out grows the small pots they are currently in!

Its not really much of a business, Lindsey. No one who has access to Apopka will buy from me. I just needed to justify my existence in retirement and the profits enable me to buy more plants without feeling too guilty about it.

Sophronitis cernua and Zygonesia cynosure 'BlueBird' ( bloomed in March, and now again)

Carol, they are both lovely!

Thank you, Ursula. I almost missed the little Sophronitis...it had it's back to me.

Yes, they are very lovely!

isn't it funny how we can miss these gems...even when looking twice a day????
Carol, your 'Bluebird' is beautiful..I'm not familiar with that plant..is it in the Oncidium family ?
the leaves don't really look like it but the flowers do..and what a great color!

Hey Ken, Like Mark Twain said, Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Carol, Nice Bluebird, it is a Zygo, isn't it? And that little guy, I had to run out and see if mine bloomed. Not yet

Carol, your Bluebird has an interesting shape and the colors are lovely.

The Zygonesia cynosure is a cross between Zygopetalum and something else that I can't remember. Jim looked it up but I can't find the post now.

Here is a link to Zygonisia Cynosure
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
It is Aganisia cyanea x Zygopetalum Skippy Ku