I picked it up locally at the Amherst Orchid Society sale. It's my only big phrag. I bet it is 4n!

Beautiful orchids guys! heres one of my window...

Bree, so what is the other parent? (Tell all!) Looks like you and Janice are in cattleya heaven!!

Bree, they are beautiful blooms! Yes, do tell!

Thanks, Ken.

Ken, what's happenin' 'round your neck of woods?

I posted a new video I love on http://cubits.org/orchids/thre...

Kathy, your Noirmont makes me sick

Your 'black' dendro is certainly close to garnet jewel except you have a little spot of white on the lip...mine is not a clone so they may indeed be the same grex.

Your show of blooms is incredible! The green cym looks something like 'Dag' but that one is upright rather than pendant, I think.

Todd, sorry to make you sick! I have 5 more phrags that are also sticking out tongues at me and haven't bloomed in years (if that makes you feel better.) Besides I never get much %age of bloom on my paphs. They just sit there or decline. So you've got me there!!

Kathy, outside things are 3 weeks early here as well, inside there is always something in bloom. I am with you regarding Paphs and Phrags which for the most part just seem to languish on, as Ursula so aptly used as a descriptor (cabbage). My Noirmont just sits there looking green, but not growing while Jason Fischer which developed spike almost to point of blooming, spike now turning yellow.

bree, nice color in that window.

Here is one that I have had some success with, Paph moquettianum, picked up at local greenhouse just over 3 years ago in bloom.
It became a rescue as the spike quickly went into decline and removing plant from pot revealed why, as almost the entire root system had rotted off.

Paph moquettianum roots on Feb 10, 2007.

Wilsonara Red Stars 'Rooster' Not the plant I thought I was getting when ordered from Clouds as the picture they have presented is quite different. Googling shows that my plat is not mislabeled just that they are using wrong description and picture.

Close up of Wilsonara Red Stars 'Rooster'.

Yep. That looks like some of my Paph roots!
Love Wilsonara Red Stars 'Rooster' even if it wasn't what you expected!!

Ken, your moquettianum looks an awful lot like my primulinum var. purpurascens...I wonder if my plant is midlabelled...or perhaps yours.

That Wilsonara is great! Nice bright colour!

I actually have a phrag that is going to rebloom! My Mountain Maid has a spike...looks like two buds (same number it had 3 years ago when it bloomed). Meanwhile out of 20 phrags I have, only 5 have ever bloomed.

That's just like my paphs! Congrats on Mountain Maid!

Blooming at work is Ascocenda Kirk Hoo

and my Calanthe sieboldii has a spike on both sprouts! keep you fingers crossed that they don't blast.

Todd theres alot of paph crosses that look similar like the once you mention. Kens does look like a Moquettianum. But paph. glaucophyllum, victoria regina, chamberlainianum and liemianum look similar also and then all there crosses like pinocchio, salvador dali, ect..
I have a prim x var. purp but i think its also x delenatii...

I'm still trying to recuperate from Ascocenda Kirk Hoo!

I am not sure I have posted the correct name for this. More research. Great fragrance!!!

Here's 2 things I'm excited about. I've had this Trichoglottis pulsilla for a few years and I bought another cause I was getting impatient. And now the 1st one is in bud!! It is a 1" pot BTW. http://bit.ly/cgl4Rz