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Jan 7, 2015 3:34 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
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Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Not sleeping Jim, just twiddling my thumbs waiting for two of my cattleyas to open up. They are taking their sweet time. My bromeliads are much faster. They just sneak up on you and - BAM! - they're out! Each cattleya had two buds but one of them blasted on me so now I've got one bud on the one and two on the other. But the two flowers are really close to each other and the lower one looks a lot smaller so I'm not sure what's going to happen there. At least they're safe from the squirrels since Dad screened the whole shade house.

By the way, I was showing Mom the orchids today and we sniffed Onc. Marguerite Tsiku and I think it smells kind of like cocoa butter. Very yummy smell from such a little flower. And the Neostylis Lou Sneary 'Bluebird' hadn't smelled all the previous times I sniffed it, but today it was kind of sweet but faint.

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