3 cute but stinky blooms…and a solution for unclogging pump sprayers

A great little species bloomed last week: Bulbophyllum frostii. (See the three blooms on the Photo page.) Blossoms look like tiny elves’ slippers. The only downside is that, like many bulbophyllum, frostii’s blooms are a little stinky – not bad, though, because the flowers are so small. In fact, to get even a slight whiff [...]

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Holiday corsages and more spring blooms

Hats off to the folks who skillfully create and display bouquets of cut orchids. It’s not an easy skill to learn. This weekend, I made each of the women in my family an orchid corsage. While the project was fun, the results were mediocre. [The photo on the left shows one of the four corsages, this [...]

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Remounting the Bulb. jersey

Remounting the Bulb. jersey was on the agenda this weekend. I bought the plant four years ago as a one-year-old seedling, and when it languished in a plastic pot, almost dying during one winter, I decided to mount it, since I’d had luck by mounting my other bulbophyllum. Although my mounted Bulb. jersey has now [...]

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Favorites from the Collection, Part 3 of 4

Of my 32 Top Favorite orchids, these 11 earn four out five points (See the Nov. 3 post for the ranking criteria). (Again note the ones with an asterisk *. In a few days, I’ll do a special post about these.):  Brassia Rex (reliable and profuse bloomer, knockout bloom, and durable plant) Cirropetalum Elizabeth Ann [...]

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Favorites from the Collection, Part 1 of 4

The Collection list is complete (see The Collection tab above). The number of my orchids is down considerably from a year ago. In an effort to trim the collection to a more manageable size , I’ve sold plants and discarded the sickly and incorrigible ones. Of the 118 orchids that remain, a dozen or so are little more [...]

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