Local orchid club meeting booty!!!

[daemondamian]

I went to my local orchid club meeting last Thursday
and not only did I win Best Novice and get a ribbon and glass with the club logo embossed on it [it helps when you're the only novice ] but I was naughty and spent $57 on orchids that were at the sale table.

I got a good size, 6-10 leaved flowering Slc Precious Stones x C. Chocolate Drop ($22), 1 Oncidium kaulanii - mounted on a huge bit of treefern and in spike $10.00- and another smaller potted one of the same $5, an Oncidium Mickey Mouse [also on a huge treefern mount and in spike ] $10, and an Odontocidium Autum Tints [$10] which is on a huge mount with a really long flowerspike on it..

In addition to that my mum is also a member there and went to the last meeting and was given a flowering Oncidium flexuosum for free!!

I don't know if they're 'dogs' or not and frankly I don't care!

The flower spikes are so big I had to rearrange my whole hobby GH to get the mounts in [and some will have to moved or removed because there still not enough room for the potential size of the spikes] and now it's bursting at the seams!

The red flower is the Slc- one photo taken without the flash, one with the flash and one in the full on sun.

[Shadow]

WOW! Congratulations! What have you done to become the Best Novice???

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

WOW! Congratulations! What have you done to become the Best Novice???

Thanks All I did was take in my Cochleanthes aromatica 'Magnifica' and fill in card. Someone brought a blooming Dracula cordabae [spelling?] to the meeting which was amazing They won the 'best species' plant category.

[Shadow]

Is it orchid club for hobbyists from your city or it covers bigger/smaller area?

[smartie2000]

Congrats!
That Slc. is gorgeous!

[justatypn]

Excellent Damian ...making room is always so much fun...sounds like you might need a higher pitch roof

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Is it orchid club for hobbyists from your city or it covers bigger/smaller area?

I'm in a really small rural country town that actually has a population of about 530 people I think [?] but the club covers a much wider area incorporating several towns.

It's so awesome seeing all the fantastically grown, in bloom, orchids at the meetings

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by smartie2000

Congrats!
That Slc. is gorgeous!

Thanks, I just discovered it also has a fruity fragrance

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by justatypn

Excellent Damian ...making room is always so much fun...sounds like you might need a higher pitch roof

Thanks I need to get my winter lean-to/attached GH happening pronto!

Here's my current *hobby* GH, but I also have another much smaller one as well as two fishtanks and growing outside also.

[Rosiefuture]

Hi Damian, you are in the eastern states aren't you?

What a great haul you got! Don't you just love buying from orchid clubs! I love the cat, magnificent colour.

All my orchids are outside, I'm trying to talk hubby into letting me build an orchid house.

Marion