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Jul 12, 2011 10:43 AM CST

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Have you checked out our mini thread, Lin?
The thread "Miniature Orchids" in Orchids forum
The thread "Miniature Orchids 2" in Orchids forum
The thread "Miniature Orchids 3" in Orchids forum
The thread "Miniature Orchids 4" in Orchids forum

That should give you plenty of orchid ideas!!

| @boojum | Post #94400 (4)

plantladylin

Jul 12, 2011 10:45 AM CST

Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

Jim: That does look like mine with the pinkish/red splashes!

Kathy: Oh, I had not seen the Mini thread .... Thanks for the links!

~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!

| @plantladylin | Post #94403 (5)

Jul 12, 2011 10:49 AM CST

Name: Kathy
Western MA

That's why I'm here!

| @boojum | Post #94409 (6)

plantladylin

Jul 12, 2011 10:50 AM CST

Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!

| @plantladylin | Post #94411 (7)

kevin51

Jul 12, 2011 1:31 PM CST

Name: Plants and Plumerias
American South (Zone 7b)
I'm on a down hill slide to middle

I think and I really 'think' that this orchid Slc. Jewel Box 'Dark Waters' is starting to form buds. I hope so, it had bloomed before Christmas and I had 2-3 weeks of blooms. Lee

Plants and Plumerias and others.

| @kevin51 | Post #95171 (8)

bree

Jul 12, 2011 2:50 PM CST

Name: bree
North coast NSW Australia

Leeanum now

Insigne now

| @bree | Post #95269 (9)

Jul 12, 2011 3:34 PM CST

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Congrats Lee but those sheaths should go into Anticipation! The thread "Anticipation 4" in Orchids forum This thread is for blooms.

Bree, they still look so pretty. How long have they been open?

| @boojum | Post #95323 (10)

ctcarol

Jul 12, 2011 3:46 PM CST

Name: Carol
Santa Ana, ca
Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.

Beautiful, Bree! I'm getting new growth on my Paphs, so I haven't killed them yet!

| @ctcarol | Post #95351 (11)

Jul 12, 2011 7:35 PM CST

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Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Bree, very nice blooms!

I am happy - my small plant of Cym. Amazing 'Marlow Orchids' is again doing its Summer thing, it is opening a modest spike. The plant pic was taken "in-situ".

And Stenoglottis woodii ( bought a year ago from Andy) is blooming.

| @Ursula | Post #95612 (12)

hawkarica

Jul 12, 2011 7:56 PM CST

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

Very nice, Ursula. I like them both.

Jim

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| @hawkarica | Post #95646 (13)

Jul 12, 2011 8:02 PM CST

Moderator

Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

thanks Jim.

| @Ursula | Post #95658 (14)

Jul 12, 2011 9:14 PM CST

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Wonderful! I'd love to have a cym bloom now. How great. What a sweet plant that Stenoglottis woodii is!

| @boojum | Post #95734 (15)

Jul 13, 2011 5:54 AM CST

Moderator

Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

The Steno sits now on my kitchen windowsill.

And now I only wish my Cym ensifolium would ever say peep!

| @Ursula | Post #95843 (16)

sandnsea2

Jul 13, 2011 7:38 AM CST

Name: Janice
Cape Cod, MA, USA (Zone 7a)

These are blooming wild in Nottingham England now near my friends yard. (Pardon the glare, I took a picture of her photo.)
She calls them Bee Orchids. Googled it ....Ophrys apifera var. aurita.

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle
- Albert Einstein.

| @sandnsea2 | Post #95878 (17)

Last edited by sandnsea2 Jul 13, 2011 7:47 AM

Jul 13, 2011 7:49 AM CST

Moderator

Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

This is surely Ophrys, perhaps apifera.

Sorry, my response overlapped with your edit. Yes, I think you nailed it!

| @Ursula | Post #95886 (18)

Last edited by Ursula Jul 13, 2011 7:51 AM

sandnsea2

Jul 13, 2011 7:55 AM CST

Name: Janice
Cape Cod, MA, USA (Zone 7a)

Thanks, Ursula!
I think it is remarkably beautiful.
Have you seen these in the wild in the US?
Found this very interesting video of the Bee orchid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle
- Albert Einstein.

| @sandnsea2 | Post #95897 (19)

Last edited by sandnsea2 Jul 13, 2011 8:02 AM

Jul 13, 2011 10:54 AM CST

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Did you see this article Janice? http://cubits.org/orchids/arti...
Peter's 2 websites are awesome.
Love this video. I put it in our Orchid Video thread http://garden.org/thread/view_...
Also could you put the photo etc. in the Terrestrial thread?