I finally have time to post : and.. something to post :)
After 5 Yrs and 2 location's this Vanda decided to show.
A bit out of focus, I know, but I wanted to get it before the weather wrecked it. Windy, Rainy, small craft advisories for the past...week.
I see some really good Photo.'s being taken by other contributors Keep up the good work.
I'm just back from giving my palm talk to a garden club in a South Tampa private home. Old money. Just me and 26 ladies. The food was good as was the wine and they gave me a $20 gift card to Lowe's. Now if I can just get through my garden club here on Thursday and meeting Laurel and Steve in Apopka on Friday, I will have made it through the week.
Jim
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My Cattleyas are behaving a little different this year, instead of all spikes opening at once, quite a few open in succession. I am not complaining, it means the plants are a bit longer in bloom, but perhaps less showy.
Potinara Burana Beauty 'Burana' is one of those. And the blooms smell so good!! And there is another spikes in the works.
Ctna Why Not sat on the top shelf and flowered happily along, today I finally went on a step ladder and pulled it down. ( Carefully, as not to break the spikes on the Angraecum sesquipedale underneath it )
Pleurothallis dilemma loves the moisture from the fish-tanks. Little fancy bows?
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.
Ursula, ALL of my 'chids have been opening that way! I keep waiting for the whole spike to bloom, but I'm getting 1 flower at a time. That's why I haven't been posting anything. I'll try to get some pics this week.
Got some stuff blooming here this week -
This is my second plant of Aerangis biloba, it is growing on a mount and its blooms are not quite as round and nice as those on my other plant, but it does fine and blooms a bit more reliably.
Bulbophyllum alagense, small form is an ultra small mini creeper. It fell off the mount this Summer and is now happily growing into a Coconut mat. If you look closely you will see the tiny beak-like blooms. The lens cap is 52 mm in diameter, so this is actually a huge clump of plants. The whole things measures about 12 x 12 inches.
and here is a close up from 2005
Ceratostylis rubra ( or retisquama if you like) is blooming again, some pictures here with and without flash.
Holcoglossum wangii is now fully open
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Izumi' has a nice spike this season. I don't like to grow that many plants of this type of hybrid, since they turn in my hands into huge "Cabbages". I cut this one down/apart a couple of years ago and just kept a small division.
The Rajasthani fellow is very practical for taking pictures, just park it on its head.
Neostylis Lou Sneary is opening two spikes
Slc Samba Princess 'Pretty in Pink' is flowering under my care for the first time. 3 buds.
Congrats.
