Orchid Withdrawal...Need to buy orchids!

[shadytrake]

My orchid lists just keep getting bigger and bigger while waiting for bonus.

I...need...to...purchase...orchids!

I am having to hold myself back from going to the local big box store because I am saving the money to get some really rarer orchids that are not available locally.

Waiting sucks.

[bellini girl]

Just think of how great you'll feel when you snag those rareties. Hang in there. Big box just slakes the thirst momentarily..

[Daethen]

With you, sister!!! Thanks for helping ease my cravings!

[ezil]

Hang in there! Keep going back to your wish list and take a deep breath. Then repeat softly over and over again: "Someday my prince(s) will come...." It works in fairy tales, why not with orchids?

[WhiteRabbit]

LOL! I can relate - I haven't got any new orchids in quite some time *sigh* At least I have a number of plants blooming, and in spike - helps take the edge of the "need" for new ones!

Hang tight - it will be all the more sweeter when you get the ones you have been really wanting!

[Eyebabe]

Been there....and it's a killer waiting

[Daethen]

O M G!! I just got the go ahead to buy myself some birthday orchids from the hubby and kids and the MIL was going to buy me one too!!!! What is in the air around here. Wait, I don't want to know just keep pumping it out!

[Vanda lover]

We're a bunch of orchid hoarders!

[shadytrake]

I spent the whole weekend cleaning the shadehouse, spraying around the outside perimeter with Malathion (keeps the roaches out), and pulling the orchids that are going to new homes tomorrow.

Then hubby and I pulled a bunch of orchids that we decided to pull out of s/h and mount to driftwood. I had been letting the roots grow on some Den seedlings but now they are ready for mounts.

I mounted my Den lawesii, Den bullenianum, Phal Cranberry Queen 'Regal', Phal hieroglyphica 'FAF', Phal equestris var leucaspis, Phal equestris, 2 Phal Green Star, Pleuro grobyi, and Onc sphacelatum. I have one more to go but I was too worn out and my driftwood pile is pretty depleted.

I need to mount my Peristeria elata x self but it will need a choice piece of driftwood. I have tasked hubby to go to the river and find a goody piece.

By getting all of these mounted, I am making room for my Phrags and Dens coming SOON!

Oh and I discovered buds on one of my Dens (tag popped off-will have to check my orchid journal). YAY!!

Waiting still sucks, but the day went by quickly.

[Daethen]

I am sure you are exhausted, but in a good way. I love doing that sort of work. I call it my ME time!!