My first ever blooming catts! Pot. Love Passion 'Orange Bird' & Epc. Plicaboa

[Ethan]

I'm so excited!!! hehe...

I've been trying a long time to get some catts to bloom for me and my patience finally paid off!

First three photos:

Epc. Plicaboa 'Dancing Queen'
I bought this as a baggie orchid at Lowe's almost three years ago, almost killed it twice, then finally got it right! Flowers are about 3'' and as you can see have multiple buds per spike. The smell is delicious...the only way I can describe it is like a sweet marshmallow smell!


Second three photos:

Pot. Love Passion 'Orange Bird'
Got this from a vendor at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens show last year. This is the first rebloom with four flowers on this spike and 3 more spikes just emerging from their sheaths!!! No fragrance to speak of, but how could you not love such a pure orange orchid??? BTW, the pics that are darker orange is the true color...most of the pics I took showed up as a much paler orange than what they actually are.