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Today is September 1. as the remnants of hurricane Ida do their thing today around here. At least it is only raining, there is no damaging wind with this event.
Let me start the new thread for the month with an update on my happily blooming Habenaria rhodocheila.



And the Jumellea comorensis doesn't have a seasonal blooming time in my hands, it just blooms year around here and there on this somewhat unruly plant. The blooms smell nicely of Cinnamon.





Please all join in and post away and join the discussion!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed (which is all any of us can do), that we'll dodge hurricanes. It is still two weeks before the peak of the season arrives. We've got another two months of tropical disturbances to deal with.

Welcome to September! So the 'Dog Days of August are behind us now ?
It's absolutely POURING here, apparently the tail end of Ida is stuck overhead. I'm so thankful for my polycarbonate roof!


Psychopsis Papillo'Cove's Canary' with a fresh bloom

Ctt. Carol Bernice

And still looking amazing from a couple of weeks ago
C. Valda x B. Nodosa

Ida is still packing a punch on both ends! It wasn't too bad until 20 minutes ago, right now it pours Cats and Dogs, probably the whole evening. Hopefully the promised strong thunderstorms don't knock out the power.
Loving the show, Lindsey!

Here's hoping you have power, the cage holds and no or limited flooding. Ida is no lady.

Edited to add, OMG.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...

We are ok here! It was pretty wild for a few hours here. But we didn't lose power! Only the cellar has some water, which needs to be mopped out, but that is surely minor compared to those living near the local river.
PPL has not informed us that we lost power at our Pennsy place, so that is good. That area got hammered with Ida!!
I probably have to avoid some roads today driving south to my daughter.
I just checked the deck, plants look ok. I had taken some of the Stapeliads inside and a couple more succulents. Now to the cage! It is supposed to be sunny the next few days, so things should dry out.

Just checking - many roads are closed due to flooding! I may have to stay home today!

Glad to hear you are OK, the pictures of the extensive damage are horrifying.

You've had a taste of what the Gulf and Atlantic coasts deal with, year after year, Ursula. I'm glad you have power and nothing major to deal with. Boy, I saw the flooding in the NYC subways. Unbelievable. People near the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts will be without power, water, or sewage function for days and some won't have power for several weeks. Many of our friends are dealing with this right now. It is hard to describe how difficult it is to be in the Deep South without power and water, with feel-like temperatures 100+.

Gosh, I'm seeing more and more of the catastrophic damages that a lot of the upper Atlantic Coast states got, PA, NY, and NJ in particular. I sure hope you remain safe and dry, Ursula.

My NJ niece and her family had to spend time hunkering down in their basement as a devastating tornado blew by last evening. Thankfully their home is fine.

I have another compact Phrag. to share with you all.



This is Phragmipedium Inca Rose. It is a cross of Phragmipedium besseae X Phrag. Pink Panther.


It is a petite plant growing in a 3 3/4" plastic pot. Base color of flower is cream. Dorsal suffused bright pink along outer edge, with a darker Rose pink flare apically. Petals slightly rolled but pleasingly so, dusted bright pink throughout. Pouch brushed darker pink centrally and towards tip. Rim veined darker pink cascading down internally.
Staminode bright yellow with white side tips.
Flower measures 5.2 cm. X 4.6 cm. and sits atop a 9 cm. Tall inflorescence. There is a second large bud forming so this will be a sequential bloomer.
I think it is very attractive.

Now how am I growing it? Well compared to the Paphs. It is closer to the tubes, 6" versus 9". They get a bit more water and fertilized once a month with Jack's 20-20-20. Foliage has become a rich, darker green.


Once I looked at the images I noticed that the flower is covered in a downy fuzz or pubescense.

That's a really nice one, Bill. Boy, have you switched gears in the genera that you are able to grow well.

That Sultan of Slippers pays attention and learns I guess.
I also found another plant in spike under my windowsill set up. This is a larger hybrid so could be real pretty.
Water and humidity, that is the key I think. Plus they are growing with a maximum temperature of 82.

Bill, our LOW two days ago was 81 F.

I know, I lived there.
A few Naples Society people grew them outside next to fans in the shade. We had one gal, now that I think about it, grew indoors in the air conditioned home.

Bill, that is a beauty with a beautiful name, Inca Rose!

I think my street was lucky! There were quite a few road closings with damaged cars pulled to the side and damaged basement stuff at the curb. I managed to drive 1 hour South to my daughter, after some tries to find the open entrance to North-South Highway/Garden State Parkway. Traffic was very light!

Thanks Ursula!

Gosh that storm sure packed a wallop all the way from the Gulf to up North...glad to hear that it was not worse for you Ursula. I saw that Kathy in western MA had some sump pump problems but nothing they couldn't deal with. We've had off an on torrential rains again here in Tampa today. It felt like Grenada with a nice strong moist breeze and spectacular thunderheads in the sunset sky.

Looking forwards to some sunny days here!
One thing I found noteworthy in my corner - the greenhouse! it is this year exactly 20 years old, I moved my plants into it on 9/11/2001, as we got the afternoon off from work.
Now through the years I usually had some minor leaks in the ceiling during heavy thunderstorms. And every few years I had a fellow from Florian greenhouse cleaning the outside and do a "tune-up" . The last time this was done was last Summer. ( or was that in 2019?) This time in this huge 5 hour deluge the greenhouse stayed bone-dry inside! I was truly impressed and happy! This was unexpected!

I was impressed with our Florian "greenhouse" as well, Ursula. We've now been gone for 40 mo., so don't know how it's been holding up since our move. We loved that structure.