just wanted to show off some of my orchids, trees, shrubs, and others.
it was a rainy day in the desert so i decided to let some of my orchids sit out for a good natural bath. i find my plants always do better with rainwater ( of course!).
The atmosphere of the desert on this beautiful sunday.
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First up is my Jade vine (Strongylodon Macrobotrys). I'm not sure how well it is doing because it hasn't really done much. The tips of 2 out of the 3 vine tips have died back but i'm hoping that was just due to shipping and change of environment ( i received this plant about a month ago from Florida). The leaves are still green and erect so I'm keeping my hopes up that it will stay alive.
I keep the soil moist and spray it anywhere from once to a few times a day.
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This is what the flowers look like on a mature Plant.
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Next up is my Gustavia Augusta. I ordered this from the same nursery as my jade vine. It is a fragrant small tree with big beautiful pink,yellow and white flowers. I hear it grows very slowly. So far it has done okay. i haven't seen much of anything in the month and a half that i've had it. But looks healthy. i keep this one moist as well.
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what the flowers look like
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This is my Goethea Strictiflora. This one also comes from the same nursery in Florida. I love this one because the flowers grow directly from the branches. I first saw this species at the conservatory of flowers in San Francisco.
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The flowers
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This is my orchid tree. i hang some of my orchids not his beautiful fragrant tree.
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a few of my Rhynchostylis' and a cattleya walkeriana
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a Brassavola Grandiflora and an Epidendrum
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my Cymbidium just starting to open its blooms
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one of my dendrobium kingianums
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this is my Psoralea Pinnata. the flowers smells like grapes! i hag a couple dendrobiums in this one too.
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and last but not least a Tillandsia thing in built. i glued a bunch of different kinds on this piece or wood. the one with the purple flowers is a tillandsia duratii and the flowers smell like grapes.
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