Found a nursery with orchids. They had lost their damned minds as well

[Vanda lover]

A lot of places will mark them down rather that throw them away. My neighbour also scored a big, healthy noid miltonopsis to give to me. I have no idea what colour it will be, but I love surprises. The only thing is, I'm not fond of white and don't want to take the space for orchids with no colour.

[kindrag23]

Hah nurseries dedicated to orchids...in Texas

[Tindomul]

Yea, don't know much about Texas, its very different than NY from what I gather.

[kindrag23]

Um slightly, need various forms of cactus, rosebushes, etc. Then you are solid anything else yeah you will be ordering. Unless you are looking for a noid phal...

[james mickelso]

Another very good reason to join an orchid club. Even if it is an hour or more away you get good deals from other members on their divisions and most have auctions and raffles that give you great deals. And orchid shows are the bomb. I get a lot of great plants from others donations and they may take a year to get to flower but I end up with some pretty good plants.

[kindrag23]

I have kept an ear out..I have never even heard a peep of a flower show at all other than at a wedding expo, and the closest orchid society I know of is at Austin and that is around a 3-4 hour drive. AND AUSTIN TRAFFIC!!! AHHHH

[Ferns Daddy]

Texas is like Ma. there no garden center that are into Orchids and if they have them there any wheres from $ 30 t0 $50 for noid, I find the same ones at Lowes or on line cheaper.

[kindrag23]

Originally Posted by Ferns Daddy

Texas is like Ma. there no garden center that are into Orchids and if they have them there any wheres from $ 30 t0 $50 for noid, I find the same ones at Lowes or on line cheaper.

It is the exact same thing here. I was so excited because wow a real nursery! Then walked and welp this stinks..back to ebay and other online sellers I shall a go go

[camille1585]

I also mostly order online as well. In the Netherlands there are several growers, all are decently priced; 10-20€ a plant for the most part. But the only one I can easily access by public transport (no use for a car here, bicycle is more than sufficient to do mostly everything) just really really sucks. So I order online, mostly from an awesome grower in the south of the country, and a lot from Germany and Italy.

[RosieC]

It's partly a difference between growers and sellers. If the place you went to buys them from another nursery they have to put a markup on them and so they cost you more. Often they put quite a big markup on them. Also sellers are generally only selling mature, in-flower plants. Most people want to buy plants with instant gratification of existing flowers and so they can charge more for them.

Growers might sell those and charge similar prices, but might also sell you the smaller and/or out of flower plants. I picked up 6 'plugs' at a show at the weekend for £30 total. In the summer I picked up an out of flower masdie for £7 which now a few months later has 4 flowers and would cost more from the same grower because it's in flower.

I find online sources are mostly in the out-of-flower business. Some sell in flower, but generally the ones I've bought online haven't been. Those out of flower are almost always cheaper than the same thing sold as in flower (you might occasionally be lucky if you buy it as out-of-flower and get one with a spike/bud/flower because that's what the grower had available).

I only have garden centers and supermarkets that sell common Phals and occasional others, usually all NoID, around here. And because they sell in flower they are more expensive than I could get hold of named plants online or by visiting a grower. I mostly buy at shows, or visiting a grower as a diversion from the route home from my favorite vacation spot. I also buy online but haven't done that so much the last couple of years as I like to pick out plants myself.