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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: Orchids in bloom |
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I've got some orchids that I mostly neglect. They live in the window sill, except in summer, when they live on the veranda for the neighbour to neglect while we are away.
The yellow and the spotted Phalaenopsis are my husband's, the pink was a gift for my 40th birthday. It starts blooming in August, and is still at it:
The Zygopetalum usually gives me several flowers on a stem, but suddenly decided to give only one, and it's big too:
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Those are just beautiful.I'm in love with # 3 and 4 picture.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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They are very pretty Droopy.
Orchids hate me.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Oh that last one is an absolute beauty!!!! You've definately got green fingers. 
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks all. Netty, my mother thought so too, until she managed not to pamper them too much.
Eileen, they are the easiest house plants I've ever had, bar catcti.
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Biita
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice, i have one, an i totally neglect it all summer an forgot to water it most of the summer too. but it still gave me flowers, lots of flowers but mine are all done now. the last fell off about 3 weeks ago. it bloomed for about 3-4 months. now i'll just let it sit on the window sill until next summer an neglect it again. I got mine for christmas last yr.
i like the pink ones an that last one is awesome. actually i like them all...lol.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Biita. I've got a Cambria and a Dendrobium starting soon too. They must have liked the cold, wet summer stay outside.
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Pretty spectacular stuff, Droopy. They are really performing well for you aren't they? I really like the redish-pinkish one and that unusual monster at the bottom. It looks huge. I don't think that I have ever seen one like him.
I hope that you will show more pictures of these and the coming ones as they progress...
Thanks for the pics
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Ahhhh! They're real beauties, Droopy!
I LOVE orchids, several of mine are blooming now, too.
I guess that's one of the (many) things I like about them,
many of them are winter flowering, which helps to tide me over.
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I can't handle plants inside, my thumb is far too brown. But it is nice to be able to see different plants here. Thanks for sharing. I always believed that orchids had to be pampered. I like the odd purple one. Its different
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all. I do nothing special with them. When the whitish-grey roots get green tips, I fertilize them and increase the amount of water given, just a little. I put them outside during "summer", and put them back in when I remember them, sometime during early autumn. Then I just leave them to it, and suddenly they bloom. The Zygopetalum smells too. 
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Gorgeous. If you don't mind I am going to save your pix and make a stained glass orchid pattern from them. Those pinks!! That last one is freakishly beautiful.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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I always thought they needed a bit of pampering too! I think you've managed to talk me into trying Orchids again!
Oh Bethie - can't wait to see your next masterpiece!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Those are simply stunning!!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, all. I'm amazed every time they start blooming, with the care they're not given. 
| bethie wrote: | | Gorgeous. If you don't mind I am going to save your pix and make a stained glass orchid pattern from them. Those pinks!! That last one is freakishly beautiful. |
Bethie, I'm honoured. You may pinch whatever you like as long as you keep posting photos of your lovely work.
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