My alba Epidendrum secundum has shoots everywhere topped with clusters of bloom right now.
(I played with my Tamron lens.)
And my older plant of Slc. Patricia Taaffe 'Neptune' (Cattleya loddigesii x Sl. Orpetii) opened 2 nice blooms. I played a bit around with my lenses to get the pinkish red shade correctly. It comes close, at least the way it looks in bright daylight.
This plant needs absolutely fullest exposure to bright sunshine or the growth will be floppy and unsightly.
beautiful, all just beautiful!!
Jim, great Phals, and the Ms. Fluff is just gorgeous!!
My Phaius are starting to open up, not picture worthy yet. I guess mine are that late since I don't bring them in except when temps fall below 35F.
I love the white Epidendrum radicans, I must look for that one (my favorite flower color is white)
Jim and Ursula, Just beautiful photos. Your little noid Phal looks like mine. I have one flower open and another that will probably burst forth tomorow. It sits on our window sill in the breakfast area and I wish I had time lapse photography as you can sit and almost watch it open! Since we don't use the dining room except when we have guests, I get three chances to sit and watch it.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Thanks.
GT, I love the Epi. Lakeview 'Yellow Splash', very nice. My white one is secundum ( at least that's what I have been told.) Jewel Orchids as ground-cover? Zone envy here.
Jim, your Hoku Gem got a lot of good sun, it opened nice and dark. Your Epi is pretty as well. I hope my Epi Hokulea makes a full recovery, I almost lost it, it got a little tired over the years. Gotta love those Phaius! I always look at them and I like them a lot, but they get so darn huge!
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.
All of those Epis are pretty, but talk about huge. My two oldies but goodies are 4' tall, and have to stay outdoors. The hybrid I got last year isn't nearly as tough and I almost lost it. Now it's in the orchid shack and sending up a new spike, but I don't have room for huge in there. I can only hope my Phaius gets big enough to bloom in my lifetime.
Nice assortment of Phals, Jim. I love the orchids that change colors...it's like getting two for the price of one.
I don't mind one or two tall Orchids, I can handle that space-wise. But if they add spread, than I am in trouble. Luckily the Epi secundum doesn't spread that much, it just adds a lot of keikis, growing towards the ceiling. I actually have one growing on a good piece of Cholla "branch" ( What do you call that woody hollow tube with lots of holes...) The roots just hang down.
If you ever look for something really teensy, this Lepanthopsis astrophora 'Stalky' is for you. This one surely survives because it hangs right over the bubbler in the Fish-tank and also gets sprayed daily. 2 spikes this year on a plant which right now uses a space of about 1/4 of my palm, and it did add growth since I got it. The tiny cute blooms measure ca 4 mm.
The Potinara Fairy Land opened another spike
and so does Slc Little Hazel 'Red Jewel'
I had picked up some time ago 2 small plants of Vandirea Newberry Jasmine from Carter and Holmes. I think I got really lucky - I posted a first bloom the other day on the first plant.
Here are some more blooms on this one open now.
It is very pretty I think and smells just wonderful. Imagine my surprise and delight when the second plant opened a speckled bloom which is also slightly larger. I would think they were seedlings from the same population. See the comparison.
No complaints here.
Here are some preliminary pics of Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' - my larger plant is now about 2/3rds open. ( the other one is downstairs almost half open. )
If you look at the monster Dendrobium - this is Den Luz del Dias 'Kiilani'. It flowers best for me under warm and sunny conditions with daily floods and has been blooming for months at a different spot in the greenhouse.
And here is the beauty which I had picked up at the recent Deep Cut Orchid Society show in Febr from Lois Duffin: Dendrobium smilliae. I love it, the little flowers open slowly upwards on those clusters and put on a really pretty display. It seems they can bloom like that for many months.
Darwinara Charm 'Blue Pacific' is working on a second spike.
And Blc Liese Pigors x Drumbeat 'Heritage' should have graced the garbage heap years ago. I grew it from a small seedling. It flowers nowadays regularly, bugs fly around it. And it has a nice scent. What more could I want? I find the faint mottling of the blooms somewhat ugly and I always hope that subsequent bloomings produce better blooms. But It doesn't seem so.
Dtps. Little Princess 'M -P0231'
