Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' - yet another one from Tatton Park

[RosieC]

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

[Call_Me_Bob]

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

[jrodpad]

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

[camille1585]

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?

[WhiteRabbit]

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

[RosieC]

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

[Lagoon]

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

[camille1585]

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.

Thanks, I'll have a look! Might never order anything, but I love lookin!

Originally Posted by RosieC

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

There's an easy solution: bring it to work!

[trdyl]

Beautiful!

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by camille1585

There's an easy solution: bring it to work!

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.