I wouldn't know it but with your instructions I do now. Thanks again!

BTW, folks are asking how you get those nice black backgrounds. Can you comment on this thread? http://cubits.org/orchids/thre...

Thanks, Ursula. I am investigating the various and many growing mediums. Tomorrow I am going to a Botanic Garden greenhouse teeming with orchids and plan to examine all the mediums, and probably come home with more "you know whats".

O boy! Let us know.....

Janice, come home with something pretty!

Here is a Vanda I bought last year from Silva Orchids labeled Vanda coerulea x Vanda amesiana. Checking the RHS register, it is registered as Vanda Martha Ragan. I have been watching a spike for many weeks and now the buds are opening.

The blooms are getting a little more pink as they mature.

the somewhat "muted" plant in the greenhouse - but I think you can see the size.

And a sharper look at the plant.

A preview of Laelia lundii.

I do hope all the buds make it.
This plant does a lot better mounted horizontally on a piece of tree-fern/growing bare root.
(I bought this as a small plant about 5 years ago, it did poorly in a pot so I moved it to a mount)

They are both wonderful. Where do you keep the lundii? On a shelf or suspended?

It is in full sun on the rack right under the glass ceiling. It is not suspended.

I just ordered some epiweb. Can I cut it up?
Happy Happy Joy Joy! My computer is home and it's much better!!
Soooo, Chiloschista segawae has arrived from Botanica!! Through the snowstorm and all with 4 tiny spikes and some flowers open. Here is where it will live next to it's Chiloschista lunifera cousin.

They are both leafless varieties. The little flowers are a bit bent from the ride. It has 4 spikes! Should get better and better.

Closer.

My white laelia anceps has three buds and here it is yesterday.

And today the first flower is opening.

Oh neat!!
I need to tell my lunifera to wake up and spike please....
Yes, I cut up Epiweb slab all the time with a regular good scissor. Not a problem!

Here's my Dendrochilum bicallosum.

That's great Ursula. Now to find space to go horizontal with a few bulbos etc. I getting a Sigmato. unguiculata this weekend.

Never seen any of the leafless orchids for sale in Canada...they are a little over the top for me!

Latest opening...Odontoglossum Margaret Holm...double spike this year...will post when all open.