March is a lovely month in Florida, Alice!
I toured the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens yesterday with my brother and his new girlfriend, Eva. We had a delightful time, as always and saved the best for last, the orchid greenhouse. I tried to get pictures of tags to go with the orchids as much as I could, but some of these pictures are my brother's, and he could care less about the names . . .
(he was amazed at the high prices in their plant shop, too, until I explained that I almost never buy orchids there)
They were impressed by the Den spectabile but Eva (a foodie, not a plant person) made the comment that the flowers really look like deep-fried calamari - I've been wondering forever what it is they reminded me of . . ..
A gorgeous Motes vanda, and Den antennatum:
Vanda Pachara Delight, and a tiny Pleurothallis ( I think). The flower spikes were about the size of my finger, and the flowers very tiny but perfect little orchid shapes.
At first glance you almost miss the tiny flowers on this one, such a nice lush plant, too.
A gorgeous huge Angreacum that smelled divine . ..
Another of Martin Motes' vandas - he seems to go for the coppery red shades a lot!
On the way out the door, these two were knocking your socks off with their perfume.
