Over the weekend, one of the several seedlings bloomed that I bought a couple of years ago during Tom and Barbara Larkin’s annual Whippoorwill sale in Arkansas. [See last week’s post about another plant I bought at the sale.] It is a Larkin cross between Pot. Hoku Gem ‘Sun Spots’ x Pot. Little Toshie ‘Gold [...]
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First bloom seedling – not what I expected
Posted in Plants and flowers on August 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Blooms a plenty in the heat
Posted in Care, Culture, Environment, Plants and flowers, tagged Brassia, Catasetum, Cattleya, Greenhouse, Laelia, Miltassia, Vanda on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The orchids, especially the Catts, are budding up and blooming. Since leaving the greenhouse this spring, they’ve shed the doldrums of confinement and become lush and vigorous – well, at least most of them have. Even the ones that aren’t actually in bloom have developed numerous sheaths, harbingers of beauty for the fall and winter. [...]
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- Gongora leucochilaThis Gongora leucochila is one of two of these plants I moved from Sonoma to Napa in late 2010 because they weren't doing well. I thought that the wet conditions here would suit it better. The last two generations of growth have had large gains in pseudobulb size. Gongora leucochila grows from Southern Mexico through Central America in tropical rainfore […]
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