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Nice colour on the Vanda, Gina! It certainly looks at home in your jungle.
Glenn, I like the colouring and pattern on your Vanda! I cannot grow them here (at least not without a heated greenhouse) and certainly don't have the space, so I will admire everyone else's from afar.
In my own collection, I have a few more things in bloom.
First up is this seedling of
Orchid (Cymbidium Tussock 'New Horizon') X
Orchid (Cymbidium Peter Pan 'Greensleeves'). The shade of green doesn't do much for me (although it does look much nicer in direct sun), but I am otherwise very pleased with the results! It is a compact plant (flowering in a 4.5" pot) with an upright, self-supporting spike (only staked because of the weather) whose flowers clear the foliage. There are seven flowers on the spike, which I suspect is good for a first flowering of this cross. The blooms themselves are well-balanced and reasonably full (considering the parentage) and are mildly scented (just enough to be nice).
Then I have
Orchid (Cymbidium erythrostylum 'Tikitere') X
Orchid (Cymbidium Tracyanum Alexander 'New Horizon') (not sure if the 'New Horizon' clone was used or not - the label didn't indicate which TA clone was used - but have linked it here anyway as an example). I have been eagerly waiting for this to open, so as soon as it looked like the first flower was fully open, I snapped this photo:
It looks like a much more intense
Orchid (Cymbidium Florinda) or
Orchid (Cymbidium Hanburyanum) (note that for Hanburyanum, you can also get oranges - I am suspicious that it depends on which way the cross is done as to how likely you are to get oranges as opposed to pink-reds, but I'm just guessing). This increased intensity is likely due to the fact that it's a 4N and the contribution of
Sander's Cymbidium (Cymbidium sanderae 'Sanderae') (which is known to increase reds in some crosses).