That full on Texas sun will cook even vandas? I've seen pictures of vandas on tree-fern posts in the middle of fields in the south Pacific, and good old TX will fry 'em like eggs. I'm new out here, trying to figure out how to grow plants in temperatures even I can't stand. Seem to be having pretty good luck with dendrobiums, bulbos, and phals, with paphs inside. I'll put some gallery photos up pretty soon...