There are six that I would love to have again....
1) The spectacular NoID Dendrobium...22 flowers per spike, each flower looked like that of a Phal, in bloom ten months of every year, usually with multiple spikes, and sometimes fragrant. One of the offspring knocked this out of the pot and planted it upside down...it always hated being disturbed and it just did not recover. This is the only reason I prefer named orchids...I would have loved to have a name to guide me in finding another close to this one.
2) Lc.Ann Akagi 'Hihimanu' This was a victim of the 'Black Plague'...when I learned about Calcium deficiency after switching from a pond to rain water and orchid fertilizer. I saw this once a few years ago but it was out of my price range.
3) Dendrobium Kauai Evening Song 'Grape Fragrance' This was a very nice, fragrant orchid from Exotic Orchids of Maui. I put my plants out every summer and this was one of the victims of my dog's rare but deadly orchid attacks.
4) Blc. Sanyung Ruby '(name in chinese characters meaning something like Dragon of Light)' Nice, dark purple fragrant Cattleya that stayed compact and bloomed twice a year and the blooms lasted six to eight weeks. It was one of my first Cattleyas, bought from the local florist with that first noID Dendrobium. Also lost to the Calcium deficiency-plague.
6) Angracum Magdalenae from Oak Hill Garden. This was the hardest loss of all as I absolutely loved this orchid and babied it. I grew it from a tiny thing for seven years until it reached blooming size. It bloomed twice a year, fragrant during the day and more so at night. It went into a rapid decline over the course of a week from a fungus infection and was gone by the end of the week. I have two new mags but I have no idea if they will be as nice as the first one (the leaves already weren't perfect when I received them). I still miss the first mag.
7) Tuberolabium woodii I cannot find this anywhere!
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Originally Posted by avondale
The two that I lost and wished I had again are Phal. Starry Eyes and Cymbidium Mary Bea "The King". I wish that I had those two plants. My two plants were on display at an orchid show and somebody stole them. I searched all over for them when we were taking down the exhibit. Another member lost a plant that he bred himself. He has since passed away and he was a big breeder of blue catts.
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That is really terrible! I saw a visitor pick up a miniature orchid at our show but they saw me watching and put it down.... Yikes!
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Sorry about everyone's losses here.
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