My newest Wave of Bloomers

[voyager]

This NoID Den. phalaenopsis hybrid is mounted on the top of the stump of a tree out along the roadway that was blown down by the hurricane about 1-1/2 years ago. I put the Bromeliads on the stump about a year ago.


This Den. is fragrant with what I think of as a chemical licorice smell.


This little NoID hybrid has been doing quite well, considering. I just stuck it low on a tree with weeds growing up all around it. I have to reach in and part the weeds to see it. I don't remember its name other than it being a Miltonia hybrid something 'Maui'.



This NoID Oncicium hybrid is up in a tree. It has had problems. The first 2 seasons its buds were eaten off by something before it could bloom. Then, it bloomed quite nicely last season with nice long spikes. This time the tips of the spikes have been eaten off, but some of the buds have opened.


Then, my coupe of the post, my Den. aggragatum [lindleyi] is in bloom


I was expecting it to be fragrant. It is, but very mildly so, barely able to smell it.


Then finally, my terrestrial "papaya orchid" is putting out its first seed pods.
I'm lookng forward to their ripening so that I can give them a try.

[silken]

All lovely but the Den. aggregatum is perfection!

[DeaC]

Paradise,Eden and Nirvana!

[paris75008]

really enjoyed the pics/beauty/exoticness. here in chicago by lake michigan, we're still dealing w/ 50* temps on-and-off. bleh.

[No-Pro-mwa]

All lovely. Perhaps you should give the Onc. a try as it must be tasty.

[voyager]

Originally Posted by paris75008

really enjoyed the pics/beauty/exoticness. here in chicago by lake michigan, we're still dealing w/ 50* temps on-and-off. bleh.

We do pay a price for the "exoticness" of our new home.
While we do not regret having made the move, we do sorely miss the scenic beauty of Alaska.
As nice as it is being here, it doesn't hold a candle to Alaska as far as the esthetics of the surroundings.
A few days ago we took a hike out the coastal trail into the Kau Desert area of the NP.
It was very much like the Kona side which is very much like any of the mainland "sage brush and bunch grass" areas.
The "mountains" are just humps on the horizon, not spectacular edifices I've always been surrounded by in the Cascades and the Alaskan ranges.
Even hikes through the jungles are lacking due to being closed in by the vegetation.

Do not read this as a complaint.
Is it merely an observation due to having been spoiled rotten for many, many years.

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Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

All lovely. Perhaps you should give the Onc. a try as it must be tasty.

I kinda wondered about that myself.
But, I think I'll just spread some more slug pellets around again instead.

[No-Pro-mwa]

I hear ya, which is probably why I will never leave Wyoming. But I was once in Hawaii when I first got out of high school and it was wonderful, I'd love to go back some day.

[Tindomul]

Gorgeous stuff, great bromeliads!