So I took my orchids outside to give them a thorough soaking, and I decided that they were all getting far, far darker than I wanted them to be. So I built myself a little shade pergola between my pond's waterfall and the pond.
It's a pretty decent bright shade under there. They get a little bit of direct sun briefly around 4 or 5 right, and there's a small willow due west sorta kinda dappling the light for that hourish. The phrag gets a little more sun, and is sitting slightly in the waterfall:
While I was at it, I bought a mini phal from the discount rack and it put in a display with three others, and they all promptly rotted. I tried to stabilize this one with moss in a small clay pot. It hasn't shown any improvement, unless you count not dying as noticeably which I suppose is something. It had one tiny air root when I figured out it was rotting inside the moss. I decided as long as it basically needs to be pampered with daily spraying anyway, might as well try to make it look cute and intentional:
It's basically just clipped above that moss to the string, with the tiny little root running down to the wood with moss next to it to add moisture. Let's see if it lives!
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