ugly orchids!

[got ants]

I know I'll get some side ways comments, but I really don't care for those Phal NOIDS and Dendrobiun NOIDS. I mean, I have mostly species plants and I go to some of my customers homes and they have their whole patio covered with, get this, FLOWERS> ughh!?!?

Those Home Depot NOIDs that flower with virtually NO CARE> What was I thinking?!?!. LOL

Am I a snob?

[stefpix]

I got a Paph on sale that had motted leaves - $5... mmm addict.. should I try it in SH?

anyway ugly was maybe a bit extreme but i mean "not care at all" or "sick of", "tired of".

Cattleyas I love but usually almost monochromatic and lavender/ pink etc

[Wrebbitrocks]

PAPHS are UGLY!!! but it is the same reason that i like them so much, theyre so ugly and disgusting it amazes me that such things were created out in the wild. i thought it was funny whenever my mom sees my paph blooms. the first time she said "EW what is THAT?!?! it looks like a gynecologist's worst nightmare!!! 0.o" i laughed so hard. the rest of the people who see them the first time dont believe theyre real and usually say that theyre aliens or sumn. the ones i dont like much are the boring little bog orchids that dot the landscape lookng like loose clusters of snapdragons. also, anything OVERLY magenta/ bright purple are no-no's. although i did buy a mini magenta phal and it looks nice amongst other colors to mute down its overly powerful color.

[Call_Me_Bob]

i dont really find any ugly, but there are some that u wouldnt never buy ( when i began this hobby, i didnt like any phals that werent complex hybrids )

i dont really like brassovolas, or the floofy 7" inch HUGE phals, miltoniopsis some masdevallias and some bulbophyllums

[PaphMadMan]

Originally Posted by Bird Song Farm

As is beauty, so is ugly, "in the eye of the beholder".

Al

Precisely. So there are no ugly orchids, just ugly beholders.

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

Precisely. So there are no ugly orchids, just ugly beholders.

[nenella]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

[Connie Star]

[QUOTE=kavanaru;258736]well.. would say the ugliest orchids are those I cannot manage to bloom

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[Connie Star]

Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

Precisely. So there are no ugly orchids, just ugly beholders.

[gnathaniel]

Originally Posted by Wrebbitrocks

PAPHS are UGLY!!! but it is the same reason that i like them so much, theyre so ugly and disgusting it amazes me that such things were created out in the wild. i thought it was funny whenever my mom sees my paph blooms. the first time she said "EW what is THAT?!?! it looks like a gynecologist's worst nightmare!!! 0.o" i laughed so hard. the rest of the people who see them the first time dont believe theyre real and usually say that theyre aliens or sumn.

Can't say as how Paphs ever exactly reminded me of female anatomy...

When I was a kid (my dad started taking me to orchid society meetings when I was 8 or 9) I always giggled about all the adults fawning over Paphs and Phrags that often, to my childish eyes, looked like a bunch of scrotums (or is that scrota?) on flower spikes. I still crack up a little (inside, at least) at OS meetings when someone brings out a Paph with a particularly veiny-looking pouch.

I sincerely hope I haven't offended anyone too much by recounting the above tale of a childhood observation...

--Nat