I had the usual white with pink edge and the yellow with pink edge but recently I saw an almost dayglo pink one. So the hybridizers are having some fun. I received a bonus called IAB 'FANGtastic' but it hasn't bloomed yet. Right now I have 2 in bud but I can't remember what they were tagged (in bed with my DBF's iPad).

Pot. William Farrel X Schomb. gloriosa has just opened. It is mounted and living on the bottle palm.

Jim

Here is a NOID Phal. just for fun.

Jim

Jim, I'm loving the colors on Pot. William Farrel X Schomb....it survived the winter? Or was this one of your palms
that got trucked back and forth to the garage?

wow nice colours on that mounted catt on the palm Jim, love to see that when its more open...
Heres my Blc. Alma Kee 'tipmalee' that just opened.

LOVE the color combo on that floofy! Will it stay green?

Pot. William Farrel X Schomb. gloriosa is gorgeous. Can't wait to see it fully opened!!
This Cym. Maureen Carter is opening. The petals are weird shaped but the color is pleasing. Not enough light I'd say.

Ascda Laski. Cym sinense. Sarcochilus Elizabeth 'Red Delight'

Georgeous, Bree. I love the red and green.

Lindsey, I removed the orchid from the palm during cold nights and took it into the garage. The bottle palm, also tender to the cold, is in half a whiskey barrel that rests on a piece of plywood with wheels on the bottom. I just roll it into the covered area of the lanai by the sliding glass doors that go into the house and cover it with a blanket. It is not happy at times but always survives.

Jim

My Alma kee is more like yellow with a purple throat, but it does look green in that pic. More photos to come. I was wondering if its ment to have a red throat or purple? Its a pretty well know flower.

heres a bit better pic of the colours...
Just noticed this san yang ruby open in the greenhouse and the flowers were pushing on the roof..
floof alert here..

Kathy, I like the colors on Cym Formosa Fairy, What does the description say?

Jim

Wow, Bree! Those are both beautiful!

Jim I too love the colors on your Pot.!

Jim, that has to be worth something getting the Lanai covered!! Leaving this nice Orchid in place - it will surely permanently attach to the Palm.

Kathy, the "Cym Formosa Fairy" is sweet, whatever it turns out to be. Did I mention that I like the Laski?

Heh, major floof alert for Bree!! Gotta smell pretty too!!

Good point, Ursula. Brassavola David Sander has already attached itself to the barrel and won't let go.

Jim

Oh my Bree, those both are sooooo pretty!

My Cattleya "Not Nancy Off" ( the vendor promised me a division of the true Nancy Off. ) opened another spike.


Asctm garayi in full gear in morning sunshine.


Barkeria melanocaulon branches out from the old spike


Caularthron bicornutum - plant mounted to the large branch and blooms from a tall spike


Another spike on the Ascda Peddler's Velvet Gold is opening


And a first flowering for me, bought a year ago from Oak Hill - Trichoglottis rosea v. breviracema, the blooms are tiny.

Oh all great. Love the white catt and the Tricho.

We got the same April Fools weather here. I went to town and the driveway was clear, came back 2 hours (exactly) and there was 16.5 centimeter or 7 inches of accumulation of heavy snow, the most I have seen in such a short time.

Great looking plants Jim, I really like the fluorescent catt in the bottle palm.

You have some eye popping floof on display there Bree.

Very nice show Kathy, the Ascda Laski is fabulous and Sarcochilus Elizabeth 'Red Delight' really draws your attention with its beautiful markings.

Ursula, you have a lot of beauties showing their best side, the white catt is gorgeous and the pretty Ascocentrum garayi reminds me of cluster of orange hyacinths one might see this time of year, very striking.

Blc Hwa Yuan Beauty 'Hong' AM/AOS,


Doritaenopsis Summerfield Rose 'Bedford', HCC/AOS x Phal. Brother Purple 'Brother', this is the first bloom for this seedling that I received a while back when I ordered a bunch of phal seedling from Bedford Orchids. The seedling were ordered with the intention of getting a phal bloom close to true red. No luck with the first one but the 4 inch bloom is huge compared to plant with largest leaf of on 4 inches in length.

Those are beauties, Bree!

I just love looking at everyone's photos here!

Thanks Ken and Kathy.
I like the shape on your Dtps hybrid, and the color is still pretty. Perhaps the others will bloom out red (der) for you. We saw some amazing color shades and new patterns on Phals at the SEPOS last month. There is a lot of breeding going on.