Hey, it's my birthday today!!! Oh you guys knew already!!
Todays pics:
Asda. Susan Ong 'Ah Mooi' with all the flowers open.

Cym Forster Alcock

Vandofinetia White Crane

Phrag Memoria Estelle Getty

Den. tetragonum var. giganteum

Coelogyne Golden Bug

Trias cambodiana

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR KATHY,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUU!
Janice

Happy birthday, Kathy. It looks like all your bloomers turned out for the party. Very nice!

Jim

Good luck Lindsey!!
Kathy, nice parade - fit for a birthday!! All the Best!

Thanks Janice and Jim!! It does look like the party has started here!

And thanks Ursula. I had a great day working with my teens and eating cake!

My Cischweinfia sheehanae is blooming - the flowers are about 1 inch across. ( From Parkside in Summer 2009)


And there is the dark reddish-violet bloom with a beautiful iridescent sparkle which I find very difficult to capture, but the shade in my pictures comes close.
Slc Patricia Taaffe 'Neptune' ( from Silva Orchids last January)
This is still a very small plant, I am happy it is blooming.


And there is Oncidium Sweet Sugar picked up in spike from Silva Orchids

Love the Cischweinfia and great color on 'Neptune'. And, even at my age, dancing ladies bring a smile.

Jim

Jim, I couldn't resist picking up the Dancing ladies, haven't had a nice plant like that in years. Besides, Klaus likes them too.

All so gay! Cischweinfia sheehanae is great, I've never seen it before.

Love your Cischweinfia sheehanae , Ursula. All are wonderful!!

Glad you like 'em!! thanks.

Love those HOT HOT HOT colors!

Ornithophora radicans is blooming this week and I love the wonderful sweet honey scent.
The whole plant measures now 2 feet across.

Birdies!! My little guy dropped a bunch of leaves but is making a few spikes now. Maybe I should place it in front of the monitor to view it's monster relative for inspiration!!!

Isn't it something this year?

Fabulous!!!! Is it still a miniature at 2'?

Today's pics. Can you believe we went from sun to hail and now showers in a half hour so far? Now the sun came out. In New England, we say if you don't like the weather, wait a minute.
We saw the Chiara String Quartet (they are doing all the Beethoven String Quartets, intense) last night and I'm listening to them on the radio now (Brahm's Clarinet Quintet). Orchids go well.

Ursula show that last one to Klaus so he can see the sun on the paphs.

The usual suspects continue. Vandofinetia White Crane, Ascda. Susan Ong 'Ah Mooi', Lc. Luna, Neostylis Fuchs Ocean Spray, my new Blc. Dennis Kone 'Lakeview,' Dendrobium tetragonum var. giganteum which has 3 more buds, Phrag Carol Kanzer with Phrag Memoria Estelle Getty on the left, Oncidia Charlesworthii 'Mishima,' and my distorted but beautiful dendrobium with a previous pic for comparison.




Perreiraara Motes Leprechaun 'Haiku Mint' starting a new spike.

Vanda Pachara Delight has opened, too. Here it is with sun streaming through. The first spike dried up so this is the second with fewer flowers I believe.

You know, I measured a few of the individual growths, they are somewhere between 5,5 and 7 inches. So I would think it just passed the miniature status? It is close!

(Here was the old definition for everyone: "Miniature Orchids are defined as naturally occurring small Orchids not to exceed 6 inches/15 cm excluding inflorescence.")

Well, the leaves may not make it but those birdie flowers are teeny tiny.