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Mar 10, 2011 1:56 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Added some more pics, having uploading problems......
Yeah, more on the fungus.
FUNGUS, FUNGUS, FUNGUS!!!!

| @boojum | Post #29143 (1)

Mar 10, 2011 2:19 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Speaking of fungus, here is an insect theme. When you start to look as if you are a bug, look what you see.......
First, a hot beetle chick beckoning. Oh, Oh!!!

Follow the purple brick road....

Come fly with me....

| @boojum | Post #29144 (2)

lakesidecallas

Mar 10, 2011 2:30 PM CST

Name: Susan B
East Tennessee (Zone 6b)

How true! The first one looks like a cockroach crawling in it!

| @lakesidecallas | Post #29145 (3)

Mar 10, 2011 2:44 PM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Ursula, the fungus thing was a joke but no one got it. For Lent we are suppose to give up something so I decided to give up the black spot, brown spot, root rot, etc., that attack my orchids. Certainly would be better to give that up than, let's say, wine.

Jim

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| @hawkarica | Post #29146 (4)

Mar 10, 2011 4:01 PM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Phal. Salu Rose Yellow X Phal. Golden Sun.

Jim

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| @hawkarica | Post #29147 (5)

Mar 10, 2011 4:11 PM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Updates:

Jim

Schomburgkia undulata

Cattleya maxima

Lyonara Memoria Doug Lace 'Rosminah'

Vanda Princess Blue

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| @hawkarica | Post #29148 (6)

Mar 10, 2011 4:50 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

My Catt max hasn't bloomed in years. Hope it will this year!! So pretty! Lyonara Memoria Doug Lace 'Rosminah' is so waxy and such an unusual color!

| @boojum | Post #29149 (7)

Ursula

Mar 10, 2011 4:56 PM CST

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Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Jim, I thought as much and I was going to counteract with "I am giving up Mealies for Lent", but I was cautious.
....as I am sipping some wine.....
- and good looking Phal and updates. I hope my C. maxima is getting to be blooming size.
Kathy, gotta love the buggy -theme!

| @Ursula | Post #29150 (8)

Mar 10, 2011 4:57 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Ctt. Pixie Gold Dust.

| @boojum | Post #29151 (9)

Mar 10, 2011 5:01 PM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Kathy, I could use that one in my yellow garden! Very nice.

Jim

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| @hawkarica | Post #29152 (10)

Mar 10, 2011 6:32 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

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Ursula

Mar 11, 2011 9:26 PM CST

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Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Pretty Pixie!

I took about a hundred pictures by today, trying to capture the sparkling deep red-violet blooms on my Potinara Red Heart 'Neptune'. I think I give up, this is as good as I can do. Hopefully you can imagine it. The scent is really lovely too.
Thee very sturdy spikes -

| @Ursula | Post #29154 (12)

Mar 11, 2011 9:37 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Impressive! Is it much darker?

| @boojum | Post #29155 (13)

billc

Mar 12, 2011 9:22 AM CST

Name: Bill
New Windsor, NY (Zone 6b)

Hi All, Here's Masd.. Taukau Candy (M. yungasensis x M. triangularis)

Bill

| @billc | Post #29156 (14)

Mar 12, 2011 9:50 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Someday I want a striped Masdie. Love it!!

| @boojum | Post #29157 (15)

lakesidecallas

Mar 12, 2011 9:52 AM CST

Name: Susan B
East Tennessee (Zone 6b)

That Candy looks good enough to eat!

| @lakesidecallas | Post #29158 (16)

sugarcane

Mar 12, 2011 2:04 PM CST

Name: lindsey
wesley chapel, fl

Oh Ursula...that Potinara Red Heart 'Neptune' is just fabulous

it's on the list!

lindsey

| @sugarcane | Post #29159 (17)

Mar 12, 2011 3:43 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Today's pics.
Den PeeWee x Red River. Cym Beacon Fire 'Cecil Park'. Ascocentrum ampullaceum.

Maxillaria picta with both buds open. Ctt. Pixie Gold Dust with 3 flowers open.

Phal. parishii with its wiggly lip.

I thought I smelled something great...Tuberolabium quisumbingii has 3 potent blooms. One of my fav orchid scents!

| @boojum | Post #29160 (18)

Ursula

Mar 12, 2011 4:55 PM CST

Moderator

Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Kathy, pretty, pretty and cute, cute, very cute!

I love the Den PeeWee x Red River.

Bill, what a nice looking Masdie.

And about the Pot. Red Heart - the color is a very strong violet/hot pink and it sparkles. My camera and both lenses have trouble capturing the precise shade. But a better photographer might do a better job with my equipment. In any case, I love it!!

| @Ursula | Post #29161 (19)

Mar 12, 2011 5:01 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

I try all the light settings, incandescent if it's too warm, fluorescent if too cool, auto, sun, shade, custom using a gray card. I also vary the dark and light scale. And if all that fails I use Photoshop. If none of that works, I try a different day with more or less sunlight.