Oh Jim, it was horrible, my mother in laws dog spent the weekend at our house , chasing the cat around.
Some how, some one bumped the cold water handle on the whirlpool tub where the phals had been living
since the sun needy cats had taken the window...anyway...long story long...the tub slowly filled to capacity
with ice cold water and when I woke up in the morning at least 20 Phals were floating in the water, clay pots
sunken to the bottom..bark chips every where, it was a colossal mess! Most of them were in spike and I fully
expected to loose them all. But here's proof of how easy it is to get Phals to flower!

Lindsey, yikes!!! Not a happy story I would say!

Thanks Kathy- i don't have half the orchids you have but now you say it i supose i do always have one flowering. I find most of my Paphs flower autumn/winter and some catts spring/summer. Its the beginning of Autumn here now and only had a few catts flower over this summer. The humidity is ridiculas here atm. It never really gets that cold here so i supose some orchids are mixed up when to flower. hehe!
Lovely flowers jim! yes i have a soft spot for Maxima..and i don't even have one...yet! I have a L. tenebrosa that may not be old enough to flower yet.

Thanks, Bree. I guess it's all really about light then since we have few catts blooming in summer here too.

"What! You are talking to me?"

It is the alba variety of Epidendrum secundum - flowering from a keiki.

another alba - this is Cattleya walkeriana

Potinara Love-Love 'Rich' is now blooming from 3 spikes

Ursula love them all! Wish my walkeriana would ever bloom........

Beautiful, Ursula! Love the face on tthe Epi!

So 'In your face' Ursula, love it! The Pot.Love Love 'Rich' is really nice
it almost looks like a florists arrangement.

Good one, Ursula.

I like the Potinara also. It would go well with my Lc Gold Digger.

I'm off to the garden to move plants in preparation for the construction.

Jim

Ursula,
Love your March entries. Very nice. I used to grow a lot of these Catt and Epi types, still enjoy them (especially in someone elses greenhouse).

Neal

New blooms this month:

Paphiopedilum Clair de Lune by sueandnealphotos, on Flickr
An old Favorite!


Milmiltonia Norman MacRea 'Ann' by sueandnealphotos, on Flickr
A Milmitonia is a cross of Miltoniopsis with Miltonia.


Odontioda (Taw x Alstir) by sueandnealphotos, on Flickr
An unusual red, from an unregistered cross by Richard Stone.


Wilsonara Tigersette 'Wyld Court' AM/AOS by sueandnealphotos, on Flickr
Another oldie, but goodie!

Nice show, Neal. I don't grow any of those but I sure do like looking at them.

Jim

Gorgeous!! Wish I didn't overwater them!

Today.
Oncidia Charlesworthii 'Mishima's last spike.

Not sure if this is a mini since the leaves seem a bit longer than 6".
Ascocentrum ampullaceum is opening. Love the pink and green combo. :hearts:

Blc. Solar Flare 'Paradise'. The last nice bloom on Laelia anceps v. alba 'Sterling Dickenson'.

Binosa Little Star (only one bloom). Bc. Punakea. Ctna. Why Not x Lc.Gold Digger on it's way out.

NOID Phals.

More on the minis and anticipation...

Neal, your blooms are beautiful! I sure could go for the wonderful Milmiltonia Norman MacRea 'Ann'

Kathy, pretty pretty! I love the cute Asctm ampullaceum.

So happy to have it!

I commented on Kathy's post before but now I see I must have forgotten to hit the 'finished' button. Anyway, I thought it was Bc Little Stars but I see it is now Binosa. They must have changed it when I wasn't looking...again. It seems like they change the names faster than I can keep up with the name tags and I am runniing low on name tags. I wish they would give it a rest. I don't remember having these problems with corn and soy beans while growing up in Indiana.

I also like Blc Solar Flare and the Bc Punakea. Now if I can remember to hit the finished button...

Jim

There is a Bc Little Star ( not Stars)
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
is this the one?

Oops it's Brassavola Little Stars but since I only had one flower I called it Little Star. Sorry for the confusion!

Kathy, it makes sense.

My Rhyncholaelia glauca is opening a couple more blooms, I thought it was done for the season. It took the plant downstairs now to enjoy the lovely scent in the evening.


Never cut the spent spikes on Barkeria melanocaulon, it will produce more small spikes in the way Tolumnias do. The plant blooms this way for months!


Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' is still a work in progress, but the "Fire" is starting to dance above the leaves. I am counting ca 25 spikes amongst the 2 plants.
Kathy, you asked how it was potted? Here you can see the coconut mat-lined wire-basket. In Summer I hang the baskets into the ceiling of the cage outside. And there is the Potinara Red Heart above it in its Coconut shell, it needs a better basket soon.
It was really raining hard yesterday in the left picture.


Dendrobium nobile var. album is still blooming in the ceiling. I had to sort of hold the camera into the direction of the blooms, there is no room to back up.


And today Vanda Martha Ragan still holds its blooms. ( Or should I say her)


Oerstedella centradenia hangs on



I also posted a whole bunch of stuff into the mini section
http://cubits.org/orchids/thre...

Hope you enjoy.