Love them both!

I do too. Wonderful red color.

Jim

all i have flowering is Paph Dolls Kobold
(Charlesworthii x Henryanum).
and Spicerianum who are looking a little marked and dirty from being posted to me but holding up well.

Bree, nice!
I always like the spicerianum, it is a charmer.

Wonderful, Bree. I really enjoy your slipper pics.

Jim

Psychopsis Mendenhall alba 'Yellow Butterfly' has opened another flower.


C. Lueddemanniana, var. alba X self is just opening a pair of flowers.


Encyclia cordigera, var. rosea is fully open. It has a wonderful fragrance.


Vanda Boonchoo X V. Tubtim Velvet is also fully open.


I couldn't resist posting another couple of photos of Dendrobium anosmum. I love this orchid.


This is Phal. Salu Rose 'Yellow' X Phal. Golden Sun. It is a huge plant that is walking out of its pot. My plan is to mount it after this blooming cycle.



Jim

Looking great, Jim!

Very pretty, Jim.
I like the Vanda x a lot, the flowers really had to mature a bit to show their true beauty!
I think I can smell the nice scent of the Enc cordigera from here!
Nicely done!

Love that Vanda, Jim. (see you shamed me into coming back here!) The color is superb, but that name! Fabulous.

Ursula, I have Appleblossom, too. Mine was in bloom when I got it in late Feb. I agree we should resist that new name, I think Iwanagara was tough enough to learn.

I have anonymous Nun's Orchids on their last legs but I can't resist taking pics of them. Besides those, all I have in bloom right now is this little Spathoglottis. Jim and I saw one similar at Selby Gardens a week ago. I'm hoping mine one day will be as big and vigorous.

It's good to see you here, Elaine. There are some wonderful folks here. I love the lighting on your second picture.

Jim

Hi Elaine!
Very pretty and I agree with Jim! I love, love that second picture!! The Phaius is very showy!

Maybe it's Phaius Microburst.

Here is now my second plant of Cattleya skinneri alba 'Debbie' FCC/AOS.
I had split my large plant in 2010, it was then measuring about 6 feet across and had become totally unmanageable. I had found chopping the plant to be a true challenge because the center of the whole clump was more or less ball shaped, and it was tricky to cut through that without injuring many live eyes. ( I did it right after it had finished blooming).
So this is now the major chunk in bloom and the new growth/flowering is not as well balanced as one could wish, but I am hoping in subsequent years it will be more even. ( if it is not out of control again by then....)
With flash and without -

Debbie doesn't have a single bud here!

Kathy, but you do have new growths, right? Perhaps it is still too early in the season?

Only one without a bud.

Wow, your 'Debbie' is just gorgeous, Ursula.

I have a new bloom on a plant that I got last fall, and have never seen its flower before. Nothing earth-shattering, just an orange Epi but . . . well, every new flower is an event to an orchid novice like me. Sorry for the poor focus, it's windy out there and it would not stop waving around on its long stem!

Ursula, I agree that Debbie is a beauty! I can relate to the problem with dividing it, as I just went through the same thing with my Gerberara. I finally took a bread knife and just sawed through it, dusted the cuts with cinnamon, and repotted. The two largest divisions will still be a big ball. There is just no way to spread the roots when it gets that bad, but I did get one smaller piece too. All are putting out new growth, and spikes.

Elaine, That's a pretty Epi. You do know that it will get huge, right? I have two that I need to repot soon, and I'm not looking forward to the job.