My Spring Bloom Has Begun

[voyager]

The other thread is getting too long.
It takes too much effort to work through it to get to the latest at the end.
So, I'll work from here now.
I've got so many scattered around the trees and other places that I keep loosing, then finding them again.
Case in point:

I picked this one up at the monthly neighborhood yard sale 2 to 2-1/2 yrs ago.
The last time I noticed this one, all I could see were a couple of buds just beginning on it.
Suddenly it is in full bloom.


It is a mini Nobile hybrid.
It blooms two to three times a year.
Although, the spring bloom is the biggest.

It looks like my newest Den. friedericksianum will be the next to open with the older one, already mounted in its tree, opening right behind it. They will be blooming on one cane then another.
All the buds are not developing evenly over the entire plant on either of them.

[wintergirl]

What a nice bunch of blooms to discover!

[WhiteRabbit]

Very nice!

[voyager]

My newest Den. friedericksianum, the one still under the lanai eaves, opened its blossoms the day before yesterday.
They are now fully open and looking good.

I have searched everywhere and can find no one that says they are fragrant.
My experience is that if no one says they are fragrant, then they are not.
And quite often, even if someone says that they are, they may not be.
Yet, when I bury my nose in the flowers, I detect a faint fragrance, similar to a D.nobile and many of its hybrids.
It is not strong but gets stronger by mid day as the day warms up.

This is my newest one, still in its pot, that is in flower.

You can see the buds, still developing on each of the bare canes, that will bloom later.
The longest cane, the one with leaves, is about 3' long.

This is the one that I tree mounted about 9 months or more ago.

It put out a single blossom about 6 weeks ago that lasted around 4 weeks.
You can see the buds developing along portions of the bare canes.
The longest cane is between 3' an 4' in length.
You might also note the Nobile hybrid keikis just to the right of the Den. fred.

The flowers are about 2-1/4" across the upper petals and have a waxy type of consistency but are not heavy and thick petaled.
The flower are long lasting.
If I remember right, 3 to 6 weeks is reported for them.

EDIT:
A Den. chrysotoxum, a Phalaenopsis and a couple of Vanda hybrids are queuing up to be next, maybe more that don't come to mind right now.

[voyager]

Originally Posted by voyager

My newest Den. friedericksianum, the one still under the lanai eaves, opened its blossoms the day before yesterday.
They are now fully open and looking good.

I have searched everywhere and can find no one that says they are fragrant.
My experience is that if no one says they are fragrant, then they are not.
And quite often, even if someone says that they are, they may not be.
Yet, when I bury my nose in the flowers, I detect a faint fragrance, similar to a D.nobile and many of its hybrids.
It is not strong but gets stronger by mid day as the day warms up.

This is my newest one, still in its pot, that is in flower.

You can see the buds, still developing on each of the bare canes, that will bloom later.
The longest cane, the one with leaves, is about 3' long.

This is the one that I tree mounted about 9 months or more ago.

It put out a single blossom about 6 weeks ago that lasted around 4 weeks.
You can see the buds developing along portions of the bare canes.
The longest cane is between 3' an 4' in length.
You might also note the Nobile hybrid keikis just to the right of the Den. fred.

The flowers are about 2-1/4" across the upper petals and have a waxy type of consistency but are not heavy and thick petaled.
The flower are long lasting.
If I remember right, 3 to 6 weeks is reported for them.

EDIT:
A Den. chrysotoxum, a Phalaenopsis and a couple of Vanda hybrids are queuing up to be next, maybe more that don't come to mind right now.

This was posted March 6th.
Today is April 23rd.
My quick and dirty calculation is 48 days in that time period.
The ones under the eave were open a few days before the pics, began wilting yesterday and are limpid today.
48 days, flowers lasted almost 7 weeks even after being transplanted to the tree.
I'm pleased with that.
Sources predicted 4 to 6 weeks for this one.

The one that was the original tree mount, its flowers opened later and are still going.

[cjm3fl]

Very nice!
I also have some orchids attached to a (potted) tree.

The Den. friedericksianum has a very nice yellow color.

[voyager]

Originally Posted by cjm3fl

Very nice!
... The Den. friedericksianum has a very nice yellow color.

The color rendition is a bit darker than they actually are.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Beautiful. It must be so nice to forget then walk around the yard and go.... hey look at all those blooms.

[voyager]

To repeat what I've said in another post, I wander around the yard almost every morning with a cup of coffee in hand, checking the orchids out and looking for fallen or about to fall palm fronds.
It is like being on a very difficult Easter Egg hunt where you can never find them all on one pass through.

Just found a small Oncidium hybrid this morning that I had forgotten about.
It has 4 inflorescences with a few blossoms beginning to open on one of them.
Pics when there are open flowers on all 4 spikes.

[voyager]

my last post in this thread was made while we were in the throes of a several week long drought.
It was warm and sunny beyond normal.
Then, the trades began to blow again and it cooled down, by our standards, not those of you more northern types.

Blossom development and opening slowed down a might.
That little Oncidium I mentioned in the previous post has opened up enough for pics.

Hwra. Lava Burst, one of the many color variations for this hybrid:

I mounted it on the stump of an ohia that had succumbed to the Rapid Ohia Death.
I subsequently cut it down.
As they die I cut them down retaining some of the trunk in various heights to use as orchid mounts.

Flower closeup Hwra. Lava Burst:


I have one or more other color variations scattered around our yard.

Several more are still lined up to open soon.
Pics as they do.