Hello Elaine. Thanks for the ID on the Orchid. I have a young one so she won't be blooming until the next dry season I suppose. We started the wet season here last month.
The Begonias seem to love it here, & after they establish themselves in my collage of Begonias, they really take off. The pictures you saw are all in one large 6" deep by about 30" wide bowl. I have been contemplating the option of replanting them, but the old adage "If it's not broke, Don't fix it" keeps ringing in my head. When they root bind the bowl I will replant them in a more suitable soil mixture of rotting leaves & other humus stuff. Everything I changed to that here has recovered from being yanked out of the tree or ground they were in much faster than in regular "potting soil". I suppose I should thank Arif for the advice about that.
I am watching the growing season here to see exactly what happens to the jungle as the rainy season passes into another dry season. I have seen leaf cutter ants at work, venomous snakes I only heard about in National Geographic,tarantulas the size of baseballs, & rare plants covering the country side literally. I will be uploading photos of the snakes (quite dead) & the tarantula later as well as some interesting stuff about a plant I just found. It turns out one of my earlier finds was not unique as I thought at Comfamiliar De Narino- Chilvi. I found a mature specimen with fruit.
Noel
