Amazing show Ursula. So many blooms today!!! Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' is just gorgeous!!! It's like Longwood in your greenhouse!

Nice show, Ursula. I love the Rhyncholaelia but then that is because it looks so much like a Brassavola, at least to me.

Jim

I love the Barkeria melanocaulon and V. Martha Ragan.

Thanks!
Jim, it was and still is called by many Brassavola glauca.

Just lovely, everybody's, all of them!

Ursula, I had put Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' on my wish list last year after you had posted some
amazing photos and I am so excited that this is one of the new plants I've just ordered from H & R..
I hope I can grow mine as beautifully as yours! Is Barkeria melanocaulon a small plant? Those
are such fairy - like flowers, so pretty and magical!
Neal, the newly opened spot on my wish list is quickly filled with Milmiltonia Norman MacRea 'Ann' and
Odontioda (Taw x Alstir). I'm not exactly sure how the wish lists work..cross one off...add two?

That's about it, Lindsey. I finally had to hire a neighbor kid to carry mine.

Jim

Lindsey, the Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' is a very fast grower. You will do more than fine with it!!
It was one of my earlier purchases. I potted it on for some years until I had it in a large wooden tub. And couldn't lift it any longer.
Here it is in 2005

It must have been in the Spring of 2005 after it bloomed - I split the plant, threw away about 1/3rd and potted fresh into those wire baskets.
These pictures were taken in 2007.


About the Barkeria melanocaulon - it is a smallish, not particularly pretty plant with lots of long rots and a very long spike.
I took a picture in Jan. 2010; it still looks pretty much the same, except this year's spike came from a new growth. Not all roots made it into the picture.

funny how different the plants can be...this is not what I had envisioned! I expected a small
tiny plant thanks for sharing! How amazing 'Patricia' looks before and after..it's hard to
see that it was even divided. They are beautiful plants, and what great , bold color

That Fire Dance Patricia is so pretty! Next time you throw away some pieces, you can throw some this way!

Quiet here today. Hope the Max picta is open tomorrow! Anyone have anything to show?

Quiet here too. A big cold front came through last night and it has been raining most of the night and all of this morning. I came straight home from the gym. The good news is I have mom's last tax return finished. Now for mine.

I plan to give up fungus for Lent.

Jim

You mean 'shrooms? Or orchid rot? It's a good thing I don't celebrate Lent (not sure if "celebrate" is appropriate) or I'd be in big trouble! Ever since I hit the big 6-0, I've been completely out of control.

More flowers open on both spikes of Lc. Blazing Treat and all flowers are
open on both spikes of Blc. Zul ' Waimao Fantasy' The tomatoes are looking pretty good too!

Wonderful plants!!!

Photo shoot in the dark (very drizzly out).
Mini phal.


Max picta has opened one flower.


Schoenorchis fragrans upclose and personal and an art shot.


Max. tenuifolia in its glory. I love the way the flowers do parallel play.


Here's Ascocentrum ampullaceum today with its bromeliad friend.

Great color on Lc. Blazing Treat, love it.

Max picta is looking good. I want to see more pics as it opens.

Jim

The mini Phal is adorable..and with two spikes to boot!

Lindsey, they both look beautiful and you will surely have a good Tomato crop this year.
Kathy, the Max picta is great. I don't think mine looks like it is going to bloom, although it shows tons of new shoots.
So Jim, what is the deal about "Fungus"?

I love the Blazing Treat, orange is one of my favorite colors which is good, because the school colors here in TN are orange and you see a lot of it! That mini Phal is so cute!!