Pretty colors, and it looks like a good sized flower too!

Yes, and the bloom is still growing a bit.

I'm here eating my heard out. Beautifully grown, Ursula.

I missed the orchid show yesterday because I was working the info desk at Epcot's International Flower Festival and didn't get home until after 8:00 last evening. Church this morning and a 2:30 concert at an ALC this afternoon continues to keep me at bay. I will try to make it over there before 5 to shop a bit and pick up my orchids that are in the club's display and up for judging. Lindsey sent me a message saying one of my Vandas won a blue ribbon. I wonder how the Encyclia did?

Jim

Jim,


Here's the 'after the ribbons' picture...do you see your Encyclia in the display?

No, the Encyclia was an individual entry and not included in the display. I found it when I went there this afternoon to help take down our display. It won a blue ribbon too. Two orchids submitted for judging and two blue ribbons. Not bad for an old guy from Indiana.

I also picked up three new orchids. More about that tomorrow.

Jim

Yeah, Jim, like going to the animal shelter to "just look at the kitties.............." and coming home with 2.

Thank you all so very much for the warm welcome and kind words!!!! I think I may be hooked..... just a little!!!

A couple of noids here -
This one is labeled Ascofin or Vanda Moonlight Firefly

I don't think so!!
I wonder, I have a very similar small Vanda, Neof. falcata 'Red' x Aerides odorata 'Pink' which is registered as Aeridovanda Memoria James O. Huffman, this one is just starting to open and suspiciously looks like a sibling. Have to take some more pics in a couple of days.

I bought the next plant last Summer from the Silva Greenhouse, I lost the tag. Have to ask Silva!

And there is Enanthleya Bob Gasko, the label is surely correct, I have bloomed that plant several years in a row and image googling fits. However, I need to look that up, I know I posted in addition another Silva Orchid last year with that name....there is another Bob Gasko pic floating around, looking quite different. Maybe that was a cross with Bob Gasko or something like that.

The Paph Crown Jewel opened the second bud.

and Rhyncholaelia glauca starts up

Colorful start of a gloomy Tuesday here, Ursula. We are supposed to stay cloudy, breezy, with high humidity (rain moved through last night). A bunch of rain looks like will be on top of me late morning/early afternoon as a cold front moved through. Our high is supposed to be around 67F. We'll be back down into the mid-30's in the morning and then the temperatures yo yo for the next 10 days.

Thanks Ken!
We have a similar yoyo- temperature thing going on here for the next few days. Now if I could just move a bit easier, must have made a funny move yesterday, my back is on strike. Haven't had that in at least 20 years. We call that affectionally a Hexenschuss, a shot by a witch!

Hexenschuss! That's a good one, I'll have to remember that. Sorry she shot you though, hope you feel better soon.

Thanks Alice! It will be gone in a couple of days!

Went out to check on everybody in the greenhouse today and found this little guy. That's my (very average sized) thumb for perspective. I'm surprised I haven't completely lost him.
Dinema polybulbon

Nice show, Ursula. I ran Bob Gasko through OrchidWiz and it shows Enanthleya [Eny.] Bob Gasko, just like you listed it. I found no other orchids with that in their name.

Daisy, the polybulbon is a cutie. It looks like Encyclia polybulbon is a synonym.

Jim

Daisy, it is very cute!

Thanks, Jim.

Very pretty Ursula , and such diversity today!

That's real cutie, Daisy.

That little mini is really lovely, Daisy. I'd have lost it for sure out in my jungle.

The first spike is already finished on Den. aggregatum but second and third are coming along nicely. A friend commented that the flowers put him in mind of primroses.


The plant now has at least 8 more spikes coming along! I just hope it doesn't bloom itself to death.


A new bloomer for me today, too. This one is on a cork raft with 3 little Apopka NOIDs, all brassavola crosses. One had a tag saying Jairak Kiss but . . . ??


My big raft of maybe Yellow Birds is putting up several new spikes. These flowers showing their sunset shadings.

Love ❤️ your sunny aggregatum Elaine as well as your dark jairak kiss and very pretty maybe Yellow Birds.. all winners!

Wow, Elaine!! I ❤️ the sunny Dendie!!
I agree, they are all winners!!