Growing outdoors in Miami

[JC Espinosa]

Originally Posted by tucker85

Your place looks awesome! All the orchids look happy and healthy.

Thanks. I have a few on trees including two mule ears I rescued years ago when a lot was being cleared near the Brickell area. They were on a frazzled Live Oak along with an Oncidium in flower (that is what got my attention from the street). I climbed up the tree and grabbed the plants. Whoever lived in the old house put them there. The mule ears sat dejected for years in a too shady part of the yard. I strapped them on a small oak in the yard last year and they have taken off. I had no idea what they were until an orchid-crazed friend IDed it.

[IncurablePlantHead]

Originally Posted by JC Espinosa

Thanks. I have a few on trees including two mule ears I rescued years ago when a lot was being cleared near the Brickell area. They were on a frazzled Live Oak along with an Oncidium in flower (that is what got my attention from the street). I climbed up the tree and grabbed the plants. Whoever lived in the old house put them there. The mule ears sat dejected for years in a too shady part of the yard. I strapped them on a small oak in the yard last year and they have taken off. I had no idea what they were until an orchid-crazed friend IDed it.

Love the Mule Ears, my kind of orchid! Great growing areas and really healthy looking plants. I got a couple of new natives from a guy in the Redlands. I went there to get a rare one first found just a couple of miles from my house, Cyrtopodium polyphilum. I grabbed a tiny Ionopsis just 2 years from the seed. The orchid bug has damaged my brain already.....somebody stop me!

[tucker85]

Originally Posted by JC Espinosa

Thanks. I have a few on trees including two mule ears I rescued years ago when a lot was being cleared near the Brickell area. They were on a frazzled Live Oak along with an Oncidium in flower (that is what got my attention from the street). I climbed up the tree and grabbed the plants. Whoever lived in the old house put them there. The mule ears sat dejected for years in a too shady part of the yard. I strapped them on a small oak in the yard last year and they have taken off. I had no idea what they were until an orchid-crazed friend IDed it.

I'm a fan of mule ear oncidiums, which are now called trichocentrum. Take good care of those since they have a history. No telling how long the previous owner had them. I have one that's in spike right now.