If you ever look for something really teensy, this Lepanthopsis astrophora 'Stalky' is for you. This one surely survives because it hangs right over the bubbler in the Fish-tank and also gets sprayed daily. 2 spikes this year on a plant which right now uses a space of about 1/4 of my palm, and it did add growth since I got it. The tiny cute blooms measure ca 4 mm.
The Potinara Fairy Land opened another spike
and so does Slc Little Hazel 'Red Jewel'
I had picked up some time ago 2 small plants of Vandirea Newberry Jasmine from Carter and Holmes. I think I got really lucky - I posted a first bloom the other day on the first plant.
Here are some more blooms on this one open now.
It is very pretty I think and smells just wonderful. Imagine my surprise and delight when the second plant opened a speckled bloom which is also slightly larger. I would think they were seedlings from the same population. See the comparison.
No complaints here.
Here are some preliminary pics of Lc Fire Dance 'Patricia' - my larger plant is now about 2/3rds open. ( the other one is downstairs almost half open. )
If you look at the monster Dendrobium - this is Den Luz del Dias 'Kiilani'. It flowers best for me under warm and sunny conditions with daily floods and has been blooming for months at a different spot in the greenhouse.
And here is the beauty which I had picked up at the recent Deep Cut Orchid Society show in Febr from Lois Duffin: Dendrobium smilliae. I love it, the little flowers open slowly upwards on those clusters and put on a really pretty display. It seems they can bloom like that for many months.
Darwinara Charm 'Blue Pacific' is working on a second spike.
And Blc Liese Pigors x Drumbeat 'Heritage' should have graced the garbage heap years ago. I grew it from a small seedling. It flowers nowadays regularly, bugs fly around it. And it has a nice scent. What more could I want? I find the faint mottling of the blooms somewhat ugly and I always hope that subsequent bloomings produce better blooms. But It doesn't seem so.
