So, I am fianlly going to find out what this little one looks like. It was the second orchid I bought after moving back home to Sweden and it is probably som kind of maudie hybrid but fact is, I do not know what it looks like. After about a year and a half of growth it has finally decided to bloom! So […]
Okay, looked into the nano cabinet last night and it seems like I have a fungus problem on my hands… Two masdevallia orchids, tuerckheimii (left) and guttulata (right) are affected. Dang!!
As much as this sucks, I think I know what the problem is … when I watering water is dripping from the orchids hanging above these guys. With this many plants in the nano the […]
There are just some really AWESOME phal species out there – and I have come to the conclusion that I want them all!!
I have realized that I am going to have to patiently wait until I can get a large orchid growing cabinet (I am dreaming of a “svep” vivarium from Dusk) for warm species until I can get most of them…. But until then, I really need to look into […]
I got a question today… How it all started, the orchid obsession that is (his words not mine).
Well, it’s almost a little embarrassing to admit, but it was a teen infatuation that opened my eyes to orchids actually… Who? Morten Harket, naturally you remember the singer from the 80s group A-ha… Apparently, he grew orchids and the rest, as they say, is history.
The mini-orchid order from Orchids & More has turned into somewhat of a farce… I wanted to get one quick last order in this season before it started getting to cold, and here we are 6 weeks later… Oh well. O&M are being nice about it so I am feeling good despite the wait. They are shipping out all new plants since they were the ones who got the address wrong the first […]
Now I finally know what happened to my order from Orchids & More… I received an email from them today saying that they just got back the package they had sent out on the 27th. Wrong address, said DHL … they sent a pdf with the shipping ticket and wondered if I knew what was wrong.
It was quite obvious … the address was incomplete. I had ordered the package to my work so […]
Today I went to the orchid show at Blomsterlandet on Backaplan. I did not have the greatest of expectations, but I was still disappointed… There were pretty much just a bunch of phal hybrids, bellara/cambria, and a bunch of other no-name hybrids… From the looks of things only one grower (Stenåsa from Varberg) was part of the exhibit. Maybe had I gone when they opened on Wednesday I would have found more…
None the less I […]
I emailed Orchid & More on Friday to ask for a tracking number for the package as it still has not gotten here. Now it is tuesday, and I have not heard back from them – nor gotten any package. I did however notice that my credit card was charged just this Sunday, maybe that is a good sign? Perhaps they did not get around to sending the package last Monday as promised. […]
….false alarm. No package with orchids from DHL today, and this is Friday! If they shipped on Monday like they said they would, how long will it take to get here?? It’s ok with me, but I just hope the package is not sitting in some super cold warehouse someplace this weekend with temperatures dropping below freezing…!
Ok… it’s been a while and still no plants. Still no word even. I am so not good at waiting, this is killing me!! Had my german only been better I would have noticed that O&M has been closed for a week. Well, that explains things, but it does not make it any easier waiting….