Just beautiful!!!! Especially love the red one! Thanks for sharing these great photos, Albert!

Ok, so I stumbled upon the Amarylis post. Yeah, I like it, so here's one of two that I have. I inhereted it from my mom. Foto's shown here are of the "Mother Bulb". I call this one "A Study of Amarylis"

Thanks, Albert!!! Even more red!! Love it.

We have a houseplant thread here, too. I will help you navigate, it takes a while to find things! It is in the What Else Do You Grow? forum. http://cubits.org/orchids/foru... That's where we put our garden pics and our houseplant pics. Here's the houseplant thread at the moment. http://cubits.org/orchids/thre...
Best way to find things is hit the Forums link on the right side box and go into each one to see what is there.

Hi Albert, That 1st picture in 'Study' is great! Sort of looks like Seguaro cactus on a Martian plain.

Bill

I just realized it's phal time in Western Massachusetts too!

I've got a couple just starting to bloom too. I guess it's Phal time everywhere.

Amazing Amaryllis pics! Very dramatic.

Nice macro!

Thank you Ursula

Thank you Boojum, I just had a Phal. floresence break it's staking, only half way through.. a rescued orchid, btw.

The escape of the rescued phal....Love the backlighting on that!

The newest florescense from the rescued one. Thank you home improvement stores, for selling us orchids in medium that doesn't work here...

....or here! Great shot! Gorgeous! And a lucky plant to have found a home with you!

Nice shot!

wonder where, exactly, that medium would work?

You have to see these spotty blooms for sale at this place...lift up the cover Spag. and behold.. black root
Some of them huge, plate sized Phal blooms, beware the spotty flower. Pic's to follow

Ah, Sphagnum! Or as we call it affectionally "The Orchid-undertaker's favorite tool".
Even a Neofinetia falcata picked up at the SEPOS had rotten roots under the Sphagnum.... There were good roots above the Sphag or I wouldn't have bought it. I repotted ASAP.
That stuff keeps Orchids moist in transit and many people like it for that same reason - less to water. But, if one waters plenty, the roots go south quickly.