Orchid blog
This blog is dormant at the moment, but it is still getting a lot of visitis so I will keep it up for you guys as a resource. My future adventures will be published on my new blog, hope to see you there!
My focus… if pressed to name favorites it would have to be orchids of the Pleurothallid Alliance. But a Paphiopedilum was the first orchid I ever fell in love with so slipper orchids will always be close to my heart, and while we are on the subject I might as well disclose a love affair with Neofinetia as well.
Vandas on summer vacation 2011
It is that time again... and you really know it is summer when the orchids get to go on holiday. Well, at least some of the orchids... Same place as last year, although the little red cottage by the coast has been painted black this year the scenario is the same. This year the Vanda vacationers are also joined by a few more blooming orchids - lest I might miss the blooming all together leaving them in [...]
Dichaea poicillantha
This is a hot to cool growing epiphyte only found in Costa Rica where it grows at elevations from 200 meter all the way up to 2000 meters. The flower is not very large, about 1 cm wide, but it is very colorful and I love the intensely purple lip. This is a small division I got from a friend and it is only about 10 cm tall, but apparently Dichaea never stops growing so in-situ you [...]
Lepanthes chameleon
This is an intermediate to cool growing cloud forest species from Costa Rica where it grows at altitudes between 1700-2500 meters. I grow it mounted on EpiWeb, on my "Lepanthes branch", in the cool vivarium, wet and humid and low light. The flowers are rather large for the genus, measuring about 23 mm tall. I think it is simply stunning and I just love the hairy fringe - all hairy flowers are awesome in my book - and [...]
Cattleya forbesii
I don't grow many Cattleya, mainly for space reasons, but I am also not very fond of the very "girly" looking ones. This is however one of the nicer species I think and I rather enjoy it! I love the subtle colors and minimalistic (for a Cattleya) shape. Interesting to note that the flower is saving the very best for the pollinators eyes only, as the inside of the flower boasts both a lot more colors [...]
Masdevallia macrura – a rare brown color form?
I ordered this from Ecuagenera last September. This list featured a small selection of more rare species not listed on the website and I was quite thrilled to see this one beginning to set a spike earlier this spring. Judge my surprise when the flower finally opened up and looked much different than any Masdevallia macrura I have ever seen. At first I was a little disappointed as the flowers I had been anticipating are [...]
Gongora unicolor
Gongora unicolor is a warm growing epiphyte from Mexico to Central America where it grows at at altitudes of 150 to 950 meters. I usually shy away from these larger sized genera as I have limited growing space, but somehow a few Stanhopeinae tribe members have worked their way into my collection - and I kind of wish I had room for more. I have 7 flowers on this inflorescence and the shape is just magical! It looks like a swarm [...]