Saturday, 3 March 2012

New blooms

Technically its spring in the northern hemisphere and all our seasonal orchids are from the northern hemisphere, so they all starting to bloom.

Yesterday when I came home I saw that the Cattelya was in bloom ( how I missed the pods? Me eh know !! ) When it was only one plant in the basket the flowers would stretch 10 inches across, now they are about the size of my hands ( 7 inches or so), not bad considering last year they were 4 inches max. Will get more pics when they fully open



All the Phalenopsis are open now
This is where they are in the Mango tree ( which hosts about 6 different orchid species). Can't say that it harms the tree in any way, cause we get hundreds of mangoes from it every year.
Next to bloom is the Dendrobium Anosmum They sending out buds so the back yard going to be sweet smelling in a few weeks ( might be less) . The little protrusions are flower buds.
This is how long every stalk is under the tree. Each stalk holds 20-30 flowers and I counted 5 stalks with buds on them. Oh each stalk is bout 120-150cm long
Ways I must look like I real like flowers yes. Not really, growing orchids yes, anything else, not so much, hehehe

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