Kathy, very nice! Love the Solar Flare!

My spoons may complain sometimes( quietly of course)...

Love the Cym Nut 'Red Beauty' and of course the Bulbo. Solar flare is great as well. So many beautiful orchids.

The chili was great. I'm slowly growing my tongue back.

Blc Chia Lin 'New City' is a winner Jim.

Great Cymbidiums Kathy, I love your Dendrochilum wenzelii, can't get mine to rebloom.

This one labeled Odontocidium Wildcat 'White Lip' looks suspiciously similar to Todd's Odontocidium Wildcat 'Yellow Butterfly'. Todd, does the lip on yours open with hint of yellow and quickly fade to white?


My NOID Paph now has 2 blooms. It is a large plant with 12 inch long and up to 3 inch wide leaves, the bloom stems are about 18 inches long.


One of my many Beallara Peggy Ruth Carpenter 'Morning Joy' plants.

Very nice, Ken. I wish I could grow paphs like that.

Cymbidium Laurel, aka Leodogran 'Cradlemont', is coming along nicely.

Jim

This is Cym Milton Carpenter 'Everglades Gold' and I know the bloom is a little ragged, but it sat outside through all of this cold, had blankets thrown over it and bloomed the entire time. I think it deserves a picture.

Jim

On the other side of the coin, these Spathoglottis plicata orchids were right next to the cyms and were also covered with blankets. Looks like I'll start over.

Jim

This is a great phal: Salu Rose X Golden Sun.

Jim

Caught in the act of opening, this is C. Tiffin Bell X Blc Eward McDonald. More pics to come.

Jim

Your efforts have been totally rewarded, Jim. Bravo!!
I need a Peggy Ruth. Miss her so.

Yes, I like Peggy Ruth very much too!

Jim, looking good! I am happy your stuff doesn't miss a beat.

At a recent open house at Silva Orchids I was really smitten with Cattleya Nancy Off '1010'. I opted to take a plant in spike and watch them open here. And this plant had another new growth too.
All three buds opened beautifully, but to me it doesn't look like C Nancy Off '1010', which had really wide petals slightly overlapping
in the center and which didn't have this forward stance. I sent these pictures to Silva this morning and they think it is the same plant, but will hold a future division for me on the plant I had really liked. Nice guys!
In any case, I love this plant too, but I am not convinced it is Nancy Off '1010'.

I have a weakness for white cattleya flowers. Usually I like ones a bit more trumpetty and species looking, but that is one pretty white catt!!!!

and let's not forget the wonderful floof.

Jim

And it has a very pretty scent too.

"Lc Hausermann's Firewings" opened this week. The blooms are somewhat larger than last year, as the plant added stronger growth. This one came from the Hoosier going out of business sale.


edited to say: There is a correction, this is not Lc Hausermann's Firewings but seems to be Lc Miss Wonderful!

Oh Ursula!!! Love that one! How big are those flowers?
Just rambled on my orchid blog again. Feel free to comment. http://www.crazyorchidlady.com...

The spread is a bit over 5 inches across - that is as is, not flattened out.

Nice!! On Orchid Wiz Cattleya it says Irene Finney x Cattleya Interglossa. Isn't Irene a spring bloomer? Interglossa is amethystoglossa (Feb bloomer) x intermedia (which is sposta bloom mostly in May but blooms early spring here). So the interglossa parent is the early one. Sorry, I'm in a new learning stage here. Trying to understand the seasons better.

Ursula, that is a great pick-up for a going out of business sale! Good shopping!

As expected, C. Tiffin Bell X Blc Eward McDonald opened last night. Two blooms now and one still to go.

Jim

Thanks.
Jim, nice delicate colors on your Catt.

Kathy, does Orchid Whiz show a picture of Lc Hausermann's Firewings and if so, how does it compare?
I had bought the plant as Irene Finney, it was labeled as such ( very poorly labeled too/bad handwriting, I think we had come now to the "lesser plants" in that sale)) . But, when it bloomed it was obviously not IF, but a very nice splash-petal. So, looking around we came to the conclusion, that this is an Irene Finney Hybrid and Lc Hausermann's Firewings seemed like a fairly obvious choice.