I saw a Cypripedium guttatum for auction and I was tempted to buy it...but I have to be comfortable with my current cyps first

Orchids native to my area
 

Here's my blog entry on orchids native to my area.

My visit to Morwell National Park | Orchids Online

We have a lot of terrestrials and Sarcochilus is the dominant epiphyte.

What cyps are you growing? Are they easier/harder or similar to keeping paphs?

Awesome! Will have to make a trip up someday. I have never had a bad day hiking, but to be rewarded with such beauty make it all worth it. looking forward to more pics. of wild orchids. Thanks

I have Cyp. parviflorum var. parviflorum and Cyp. reginae. They are not the same as keeping other slippers because they are not tropical and they are truely terrestrials.
For me they are harder because I am not familiar with growing terrestrial orchids. I hope I didn't mess mine up though, I planted them in pots but I let them dry...I don't know what will happen. I hope they aren't dead from being dehydrated....

I have let my paphs dry out a fair bit :hmm so I don't know if cyps handle the same treatment or not? Do cyps have any rest period?

Hi from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. We're waiting for spring to arrive - it's late this year. Only 43 degrees, ground is still pretty frozen and I have an order of bare-root roses arriving next week! The orchids stay in a four season sunroom, happliy basking in the sunlight.

Hi everyone! I'm on the Texas coast. Galveston County. A little township called San Leon. I have 2 vandas, 2 phals,3 catleyas and about 25 dends.Still a newbie since I've been growing less than a year. Most of the dends I got at Walmart at Xmas for 1.00 a piece. The were in glazed pots with no drainage and almost dead. They are coming right along now with new growth. They had lost all their leaves. A couple died and I cut the canes off and threw them in a tray of spag and I'm amazed I'm actually seeing some growth on them also.Oh. I also have 3 oncidium. One is sweet sugar. She was in the rescue batch also and is putting out new growth although the bulbs are really shriveled. Gladys
PS. Meant to add, my growing area is a completely glassed in porch, all windows that raise for circulation . DH built it special for my chids. I'm thinking I will probably have to shade the windows some once the Texas sun heats up.

I live in Obninsk, 100 km from Moscow, Russia.
I grow up about 20 orchide plants and want more...

:) Welcome to the Orchid Board Blanka. You are like everyone on the OB we all want more orchids.;)