My blooms this week

[Ethan]

Thank you, everyone, for the kind comments!

Silken: Yes, it is an aluminum frame with glass windows and a polycarbonate roof tinted for 40% shade. I drill a small hole in the aluminum support beams and screw a plant hook in the hole...seems to work ok so far...

Eyebabe: I ran out of room for the comfy chair and table...too many darn orchids!! lol

Bayard: The end connected to the house is facing north, so I get morning sun on the one long side and afternoon sun on the other. I have all my high-light orchids on the south-short side.

Mikeg: The humongous leaf plant is an Elephant Ear...the kind you can buy a 'bulb' of in your local garden center in the spring (which is what I did and couldn't bear to let it die in the winter cold).

Junebug: Lots of smellys in there right now...unfortunately my white dend with purple lip is a NOID...I would love to have a name for it!!

[Mikeg]

Is that elephant ear hard?

[Junebug]

Junebug: Lots of smellys in there right now...unfortunately my white dend with purple lip is a NOID...I would love to have a name for it!!

Bobinbonita just posted pictures of his Den. Woo Leng in the special Florida groups section. He also has an unnamed picture of it in his gallery. Chances are slim that it's the same hybrid, but it looks very much like our white/purple noids.

[Ethan]

Originally Posted by Mikeg

Is that elephant ear hard?

It's very easy to grow, Mike...this particular elephant ear is 'Alocasia odora' and is only hardy from zone 7-11 (I'm in zone 5).

[Ethan]

Originally Posted by Junebug

Junebug:

Bobinbonita just posted pictures of his Den. Woo Leng in the special Florida groups section. He also has an unnamed picture of it in his gallery. Chances are slim that it's the same hybrid, but it looks very much like our white/purple noids.

I've seen that hybrid before and also thought it looked almost identical. However, as you said, chances are slim that it's the same hybrid. I guess a NOID will always be a NOID unless you do DNA testing...

[dounoharm]

very nice gh!! i love the way you have it setup!!! great growing!!

[boyong]

very nice set-up and very neat greenhouse

[thakshila smith]

A similar flower , White flower with purple lip is a hybrid done here in Sri Lanka as much as I know. Its done by our chair person of our Orchid society in his nursery. Mr. Leelaratne S. Wanigatunge personally told that to me and to my husband a long time ago . A mixture of white and dark purple color dendrobiums. He named and dedicated it to his wife too.
My respects are for late Chair person.
There are many canes of blooms here in my friends garden . I will submit pics soon.And one is already in my thread in members blooms thread.