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06-06-2010, 06:50 PM
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Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' - yet another one from Tatton Park
This was yet another orchid from my wish list. I did quite well at getting wishlist orchids from the Tatton Park Show, infact I think there was only one complete impulse buy out of eight.
This is so pretty
and the fragrance... wow! At the show Nicky told me it had a wonderful fragrance and someone else was saying 'wow what a fragrance' but I could only just detect a very faint sweetness. I couldn't detect anything last night and then this morning it was just very feint again. Then I got home at lunchtime and opened my living room door and the sweet scent just hit me. I really like it because it is not too sickly sweet, just a pleasent sweet scent arround miday and through the afternoon.
It has some massive p-bulbs and 4 new growths ranging from quite large to only just started.
It also has something which may be a new spike but I'm not at all sure. It looks like a spike but is about the same height as the others with no sign of buds forming
One of the new growths
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06-06-2010, 11:02 PM
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nice!! do they really smell like chocolate? i saw one at the garden center that smelled really sweet and looked like this, but the tag said something different
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06-06-2010, 11:14 PM
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Wow, they're gorgeous. I'll keep my fingers crossed and if it's a new spike you'll have to post pics when it blooms.
- J
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06-06-2010, 11:25 PM
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me wants it! lol Sharry baby is high on my wishlist, and now after your description of it and photos Iwant it even more!
It's a really large healthy plant, great pick! Who's the vendor?
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06-06-2010, 11:36 PM
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nice Rosie! I got one of these last year - they do get quite large! It is a wonderful fragrance, isn't it? I found mine at a store n the middle of a bunch of other orchids - my nose led me to it
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06-07-2010, 04:23 AM
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Thanks everyone.
I'm not sure about choclately on the fragrance. I would describe this one as a sweet sugary smell.
Camille, I got this from David Stead Orchids who are somewhere in the UK. They do have a website which I have bought from before.
No fragrance just now, and I guess I will miss it during the day when I'm at the office, maybe I'll have to find an excuse to nip home during the day
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06-07-2010, 08:48 AM
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Rosie, I think you added a great one to you're list. Beautiful sharry you've picked up
These are fast growers that love their water and lots of light.
Right now mine has, 4 new growths, 4 loooong spikes. It took about a week before the intense scent of chocolate would appear, before that - a sweet sugar scent filled the room.
Enjoy you're new orchid
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06-07-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by RosieC
Camille, I got this from David Stead Orchids who are somewhere in the UK. They do have a website which I have bought from before.
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Thanks, I'll have a look! Might never order anything, but I love lookin!
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No fragrance just now, and I guess I will miss it during the day when I'm at the office, maybe I'll have to find an excuse to nip home during the day
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There's an easy solution: bring it to work!
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06-07-2010, 02:52 PM
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Beautiful!
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06-07-2010, 03:18 PM
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There's an easy solution: bring it to work!
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Actually I did come home at lunch time and it was smelling wonderful
Gloria, I did actually start to detect a chocolate scent today, although my hubby thinks it smells more like Jelly Beans.
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