The little oncidiums that I mounted on the log are blooming.

Jim

Phals seem to always be blooming. Here is one of the nice ones this week.

Jim

And another.

Jim

Oh nice Jim. That tolumnia is a cutie and I'm always happy to see Blc Keowee 'Newberry'! Nice phals, like the spotty one lots.

Epidendrum Wedding Valley 'Sakurak'

Lc. Prophesy 'monterey' smells beautiful and such a big flower.

Flouncy!

its hard to get the right colour of the lip in the photo, its nicer than this.

I forgot to check for a July thread and am sure glad I did. What a bunch of beauties I missed!


Here is one that just arrived in the mail yesterday. It is Paph Druid Spring. One bloom is open and there is a second bud. REally a nice big plant.

Nice Susan. I'll bet you didn't get that from the Royal Orchid Club. I agree with Kathy, Bree; nice and flouncy.

Jim

Is the Royal Orchid Club something I should avoid?? Afraid a lot of my orchids, including the one above, come from eBay. So far I've lucked out and not gotten anything I think looks too bad.

Yes, by all means. They have an eBay store and a Web page. Kathy and I have both been burned and if you read customer reviews, we're not alone.

Jim

Wow! great show today, everyone!

My only contribution is the first flower on my Maxillaria tenuifolia that I bought last Sept.

Susan,
This is a blooming size dendrobian that I got from Royal Orchid club, they did send a replacement which was just as lovely as this first one.
I ordered a bunch of other small, buy one get one free plants and they were all fine, but I won't be giving them any more of my business!

wow stilldew- looks like you got good plants at least. Such big plants. Can i ask were they good priced?

Lindsey, compare that awful dendrobium with the big beautiful blooming ones I get in Apopka for $4.00. I ordered a vanda from Royal Orchid Club and paid $27.00 with shipping and all. It arrived loose in a book box and full of fungus. There were almost no roots and it looked malnurished. Here it is, hanging to the left of a recently purchased $10.00 vanda from Apopka. You can still see some of the fungus that just won't go away. Never again.

Jim

These are the only Paphs still in bloom now. A quiet time in Orchidville, for sure.lol.

Only! How many did you have in bloom before? They look beautiful! esp. the big yellow one, whats its name please?

" A quiet time in Orchidville, for sure.lol."
Could have fooled me, Janice! Doesn't look so quiet to me. Nice Show!

Jim, the Apopka Vanda looks good and I like the little Oncidium.

Kathy, congrats on your Neofinetias finding their voice! Pretty Epidendrum Wedding Valley 'Sakurak'.

Nice posts everyone, while we checked up on the Platanthera lacera at our place in Pennsy! ( Not a good year for them, it was probably too hot)

Jim,
I have a son that will (fingers crossed) graduate from Full Sail College in Orlando with his masters this January/February...I guess we'll have
to go a day early and shop till I drop in Apopka, maybe we'll have to bring the truck with the trailer?!