So on Monday night I went with Hubby to the supermarket to get groceries. As we drove there I thought that I might get a nice NoID Phal if they had one. I've not had a new orchid for a couple of months after all.
Well there were two minis I really liked. One yellow and one a dark purple (the purple is darker than the pic shows).
I asked Hubby whether
"I could put them close together so he wouldn't notice there were two" 
He smiled indulgently and I said
"at least I've eliminated one of the three I first saw"... but after picking up that third one to show him I found I couldn't put it down again. (He says he's sure orchids have sticky pots
)
Don't know why I had ever put this one back. The more I look at it the more I love the really really dark center against the white.
So then there were three in my trolly... out of five that had been on the shelf. Good job the other two were the same as each other and the same as one I already had.
Anyway we moved on and I was looking at cucumbers when hubby said
"you've not looked up yet". I looked up and the top of the veg display was full of large Phals at half price (not sure they are ever at full price but for £5 for a nice looking Phal I don't care). I was not going to get one of those... after all there were already three minis in my basket, but this one caught my eye.
So I ended up with four!
The minis were like the last one I bought, in very very tightly packed moss with an inner plastic sleave inside the pot. The previous one I had repotted in bark but I've had trouble with the buds blasting, so these I have taken out and repotted in the same moss they came in but with only about half the amount. I will probably put them in bark after the flowers are gone but I hope that by doing this I will not shock the plant too much with such a drastic change.
Of course they may blast anyway as my house is quite cold just now. But I'm enjoying them just now.
Not one, not two, but four NoID Phals followed me home!
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