Just for fun, what is the focus of your orchid collection?

Originally Posted by Brenda Aarts

Not sure if it is normal, but just when I think I have a focus, I change my focus.....Started with phals and the odd paph and now have a very wide spectrum of plants. In the next few weeks I will be receiving a few phal species and approx 15 or so CATASETUMS!!!????? Anybody else like me and collect something different from year to year?

That sounds familiar .
Went from phals, to vandas, then paphs, cattleyas, now exploring masdies and dracs, but still buying the other four genera too. Tried dendrobiums and oncidiums but they didn't agree with me for some reason. Basically I go from one type to the next one and wahtever does good for me - stays and rapidly expands.

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by orchideya

That sounds familiar .
Went from phals, to vandas, then paphs, cattleyas, now exploring masdies and dracs, but still buying the other four genera too. Tried dendrobiums and oncidiums but they didn't agree with me for some reason. Basically I go from one type to the next one and wahtever does good for me - stays and rapidly expands.

Haha, I kinda had the same thing when I first got into orchids! For a while, my interests changed so quickly that I didn't even have time to buy any plants of the current interest. Nowadays, phals have kidnapped and firmly tied me down, and, whenever I begin to wander away, they just re-kidnap me!!!

[Brenda Aarts]

Originally Posted by orchideya

That sounds familiar .
Went from phals, to vandas, then paphs, cattleyas, now exploring masdies and dracs, but still buying the other four genera too. Tried dendrobiums and oncidiums but they didn't agree with me for some reason. Basically I go from one type to the next one and wahtever does good for me - stays and rapidly expands.

Funny...only the odd dend has done well for me and oncidiums are pretty mucha a write off...everything else I've tried I seem to do ok with, stans, coels, lycastes....we must have similar conditions.

My cats do very well....I hate to admit it though, but I find them to be a bit boring.