My New Babies Arrived - One Great Florida Orchid Balcony

[bellini girl]

Awesome set up. Mine live on my patio in summer and then they get hauled back in. I'll take 2.5 months any day

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

I'm with everyone else, lovely display and jealous you can keep them outside all the time! I've got an apartment but we're at ground level with no balconies, so I can't even put them outside during the summer. At least my windows look pretty, I guess...

That's bummer, no balcony, otherwise you could really have some gorgeous balcony display pretty much from late may till september for sure, some even longer:-( plus it would help them bloom and grow like crazy. Next time buy the apartment with balcony like we did, i was planning this secretly since beginning, without my partner knowing it even:-))))))

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

That's bummer, no balcony, otherwise you could really have some gorgeous balcony display pretty much from late may till september for sure, some even longer:-( plus it would help them bloom and grow like crazy. Next time buy the apartment with balcony like we did, i was planning this secretly since beginning, without my partner knowing it even:-))))))

I was really vying for one with a balcony in a location that I just LOVED (their sister complex had an actual greenhouse porch!!!), but unfortunately there was a waitlist and we didn't get it in time for our moveout, so we had to take the current place. I am hoping that from here we will go to an actual HOUSE, in which case you can be damn sure I'll be hanging my guys up in baskets, putting them outside, and building a porch or deck if there isn't one by the time we get there. O_O!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

I was really vying for one with a balcony in a location that I just LOVED (their sister complex had an actual greenhouse porch!!!), but unfortunately there was a waitlist and we didn't get it in time for our moveout, so we had to take the current place. I am hoping that from here we will go to an actual HOUSE, in which case you can be damn sure I'll be hanging my guys up in baskets, putting them outside, and building a porch or deck if there isn't one by the time we get there. O_O!

Way to go, hope it will happen soon for you, it is truly a lot of fun and pleasure, and great hobby:-)

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

Way to go, hope it will happen soon for you, it is truly a lot of fun and pleasure, and great hobby:-)

One step at a time, gotta stop killing them first, lol!! (though I hear you have to kill a bunch to grow them correctly.....)

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

One step at a time, gotta stop killing them first, lol!! (though I hear you have to kill a bunch to grow them correctly.....)

I hear you, been there, done that, but it always hurts, when some are gone:-(

[butterfly_muse]

Tell me about it. My very first ever kicked the bucket last week. Was a gift from my maid of honor like a year and a half ago. /long sigh

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

Tell me about it. My very first ever kicked the bucket last week. Was a gift from my maid of honor like a year and a half ago. /long sigh

Yeap, I am extremely sure that 90% was my over watering fault, stupid me, I think that at my balcony they do not need as much watering as I think, I wish it was only one, but it was quite a few phals - so funny, easiest to grow, but hate over watering - and some small cattleyas, plus cymbidiums, quite a few, they were all doing fine for a years and than they just did give up that crazy water amount. but i did learn from my mistakes, i hope:-)

[No-Pro-mwa]

Yes Tommy Jackson is a beautiful place but way to many people for me. I like to stay far away from there. I'm a bit of a loner and so is dear hubby just us and our many dogs in the Big Horn Mountains, now that's heaven.

But to many people up there in the summer as well

[TOMMYMIAMI]

I hear you, and true true, I heard from locals there is only between 200-400K visitors in Jackson for winter skiing, but between 2-4 million for summer, that is absolutely insane. We never come in summer time, even it would be absolutely amazing for me - i also love to take pics as my second hobby - so we always come either very early spring - May - or fall and winter time:-)