I don’t know how it happened, and I can’t remember where, but I fell in love with phal bellina about a year ago and have ever since dreamed about a vivarium for warm growing species. Now that I have one, I finally came home with my beloved bellina. I am soo happy!! I had ordered it from Marita Åkesson along with a Phalaenopsis cochlearis, but I came home with a Phalaenopsis miva fragrance (violacea x zuma gold) as well.
So now I have four lovely warm loving phals in the vivarium, counting my first phal amboinensis flask baby to leave the nursery. When repotting the newbies I discovered a flower stalk on the cochlearis too – extra bonus!
The Angraecum florulentum that I got from Marita back in 2007 along with one Paphiopedilum bellatulum and three Dendrobium cyanocentrum (blue) flask babies also graduated to the new viv., it’s starting to look pretty nice but I still have a lot of room in there. The florulentum has been growing fine on the windowsill, but last year the two flower stalks dried up before they could mature and now it has started two new stalks (and something that could possibly be a keiki – see img. 4 above) and I don’t want a repeat of last year. The humid environment in the viv should take care of that.
