Ok, admit it.....what have you bought lately 2014 edition!!

[Lorraine]

Update...my friend sent me home with 1 blooming phal and 1 huge Catt that will become 3 or sure. Both need lots of TLC. She was ready to give me more but I asked her to keep them for a few more weeks. I need to sort my guys already here.

There is NO hope for me! I sure do love my friends. We always say there is room for one more....somewhere.

[RandomGemini]

I need friends like yours! Only one of my friends grows a single, solitary phal. I want people to give me gift orchids... that would be cool!

[shushu45]

I'm getting that "itch" again. What's next on my list.....hmmmmmm.....

[Leafmite]

I just received my shipment of orchids. I ordered more than I had thought.

1) Sedirea Japonica
2) & 3) Dyakia hendersoniana (2)
4) Phalaenopsis schilleriana dark
5) phal schill v. purpurea
6) phal bellina
7) Zygo mackayi
8) Anguloa clowesii (probably insane to buy this but I have always wanted one!)
9) Rhy gigantea (red) (same insanity/reason as the Anguloa)
10) Pot Burana Beauty

[howze01]

Oh! A Sedirea japonica! I absolutely love mine. The flowers have such a great citrus fragrance!

Nice haul!!

[Leafmite]

Thanks!
I am on a roll, here....

[catherinecarney]

Well, you won't believe this, but I spent the week with a friend who's recovering from back surgery as well as being an orchidaholic and she sent me home with two more orchids.....So, I now have a small Cattleya gaskelliana and a blooming size Onc. Sharry Baby....

lotis146--All I've got on the tag is Zygo Rhein, but I can try to hunt up the seller for more info if you'd like. The plant has just gone out of bloom and been repotted, so I'll have to wait and see how I do with it. I gather that some Zygo species grow as roadside weeds in Brazil (?). Definite hyacinth fragrance during the day. Mine is in a south window receiving dappled light (so direct light but with shade from the tree in front of the house and the plants closer to the glass) and is kept a bit moister than my catts/encs--more like my oncs....

The Zuyl Melissa Brianne is blooming size, but it was frosted in shipment so I picked it up for a reduced price. No new growth yet, but we'll see how it goes. The pics I've seen of it have been gorgeous, and I hope to see it in bloom before the summer is out.

Happy orchid buying to you all!

Catherine

[Leafmite]

Cattleya gaskelliana is a really great one! I just bought a second one (from the same flask but different). I just love the fragrance and flower.

[My Green Pets]

Weather started warming up last week and so orchids started showing up at my door and in my mailbox!

Cypripedium Kentucky Maxi
Oncidium Speckled Spire 'Wisp'
And my first flask order of 20 or so baby Cattleya rex...

[801229001]

orchid shows are fun...

Dendrobium anosmum
Dendrobium nobile
Dendrobium farmeri
Dendrobium chrysotoxum var. suavissimum
Dendrobium kingianum
Phrag Hanne Popow
Rhyncholaelia digbyana
Cattleya quadricolor
Sedirea japonica
Rhynchostylis gigantea
Masdevallia glandulosa