Spread the love..Share your Valentine's day blooms with us!

[PinkCloud]

Love is in the air! <3

Soon it's Valentine's day. And I'm sure you'll be receiving some beautiful blooms into your already crowded collection. So come join me and lets get a little romantic here on the OrchidBoatd. <3 <3
Show off your new flowers and share your romantic stories.

[PinkCloud]

Happy Valentines day everyone! <3
For once my husband got it right and got me a mini phal for Valentine's day instead of roses!
The roots look good, the leaves are healthy and the blooms are just gorgeous!! And the best thing is that it is a little peloric.. <3 ....Some of my orchid obsessing seems to have rubbed of on him! haha.

[camille1585]

I won't have anything to share with you because there's no one to give me anything, I'm hopelessly single.

Your Phal is perfect for valentine's day, it's pink and with the peloria it almost looks like hearts.

[PinkCloud]

camille1585 --> aww! I would have thought that there were a few handsome single men in France! Well if you send me your address I'll post you a valentine's card!
You are right, does look like hearts! He really outdid himself this time! <3 I'm still hoping he'll take me out to my favorite sushi place tonight. I have tried to give him a few subtle hints: ".. Long time since we had sushi, isn't it..?" hahah! After 5 years you sort of realize that men can't read your mind! fingers crossed!

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by PinkCloud

camille1585 --> aww! I would have thought that there were a few handsome single men in France! Well if you send me your address I'll post you a valentine's card!
You are right, does look like hearts! He really outdid himself this time! <3 I'm still hoping he'll take me out to my favorite sushi place tonight. I have tried to give him a few subtle hints: ".. Long time since we had sushi, isn't it..?" hahah! After 5 years you sort of realize that men can't read your mind! fingers crossed!

Very often they don't hear our words either. Selective hearing loss.

[johnblagg]

LOL I will thanks......this one opened for me Valentines morning

[PinkCloud]

johnblagg -> That is beautiful! such a lovely color too!
Junebug -> You are so right! But this Valentine's day I got some sushi.

[camille1585]

Well, I figured that since there was nobody to offer me an orchid, I might as well offer one to myself! Got a Miltoniopsis.
No idea what color it's going to be (other than there being some pink), I bought it based on root health only. Over here commerical growers have the nasty habit of planting the young plants in bark without removing the tight sphag beforehand, leaving a sphag core that retains way too much water. Result is root rot guaranteed even before they hit the shelves. I was hiding in a corner of the store pulling plants out of their pots until I found one that had SOME live roots. For 6€ I couldn't pass it up! This is my last attempt to save one, I've killed 3 others. Maybe it'll o the S/H route once it's bloomed.

Pics to come when it's blooming!

[Connie Star]

This just opened for me over the weekend.

[PinkCloud]

Camille-> Well done! Your post made me laugh so bad! "I was hiding in a corner of the store pulling plants out of their pots until I found one that had SOME live roots." I so do that! Looking over my sholder trying to see if there are any shopkeepers about! I think that is what separates the 'true addicts' of the everyday plant shoppers..