Fame Orchid Nursery Australia
 

Cattleya's are an orchid that I have done many searches for on line over the last 12 months or so. This orchid suits our climate perfectly.

The best and cheapest nursery or seller turned out to be Fame Nursery and it has been in my backyard since 1978 and is a very clean large orchid nursery.

So today I got 80 different cattleya's all with different parentage,grown from seed, as advance 50mm or 2" tube stock nicely ready to pot on or will be OK for the next 5 months of the growing season here.

It has taken me over two years to get my 1st large orchid purchase.

At AU$3 or US$2.20 per tube I am very happy. The tube stock is beautiful and they picked out the best plants for me.

The scent all over that nursery today was so varied and totally amazing.

So what came with the plants is the Cattleya with the longest flower spike and another with the largest flower, possible colours etc

Some of the soft canes I could not resist and the cost was the same as the cattleya's.

Finally I got some orchids...........

80 seedlings, you will be busy :)

Thank you wintergirl.

The seedlings are the right size to pot on.

But I do not want to stress the orchids any more than their change from the nursery to our home.

The different growing position, the change of the amount of sunlight and our climate is very different here on one of Southern Morton Bay Islands than the nursery even though it is very close to us.

Repotting now for me is to big a risk even though we have 3 strong growing month still to come.

It must be wonderful to have a nursery near by and great prices too!

Thank you Yazz.

Yes it came as a real surprise that I have the best orchid nursery close by with great prices. Things like that just do not happen to me this way. It is such a blessing!

I nearly did not get into orchids but after visiting Fame Nursery about 6 x in the last 12 months I could see the flower shapes, colours, growth rate and looked for diseases and found none etc.

You really dived right in to the orchid pool! Splash! The water's fine!

I don't understand what you mean by tube stock - could you post a photo?

It might be a flask.

Hope the images work.

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Wow! Thanks for posting the photos! The beginning of a fantastic collection!

Amazing!

Fame Orchid Nursery did not give me 80 plants.

They gave me 100 different.

And that's all seed grown with different parentage.

Looks like I will be going back.

The price..........It has got me thinking full on.

I am going to select with the nursery owners knowledge 10 or 20 orchids from the same batch of seed.

Can select many different ways with this concept, like flower colour, size & shape, scent, flower spike size & number of flowers etc.

It would be very interesting to see how many different flowers, shape, colours, from the same batch of seed!

Most crosses are made for color or form and the chances of getting all the colors of the rainbow from one cross is pushing the envelope. I might buy 10 of a cross to pick the best for award quality characteristics, but not to get different colors.

When shopping for seedlings, I always recommend buying 3 of an assortment of crosses. It results in a far more diversified collection and then you can keep the best of each cross.

Remember how big they get eventually.

Examples of the crosses that got me thinking.

(Blc.Serene Sunset x Blc. Dal's Horizon)

x Glen Maidment ' Southern Cross'

or this one.

(Lc. John Anthony Howel x Blc. Mt. Isa 'Deborah') x

(Blc. Toshie Aoki 'Pokai' x Blc. Erin Kobayashi)

As newbie it looks like a lot of possible variations from seed.

Maybe I got it all wrong?

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For 28 years I have let my family of 7 do what they like in the garden with a few areas that are to be left in their natural condition.

So I am a qualified horticulturist that came out of bricklaying and stonemasonry into 25 years as a multi disciplined supervisory horticulturist.

The peak of all this was to train a work force and put together a parks and recreation department for a large city local government.

So my thinking was if I was to totally dominate the landscaping at home nobody would build a love for plants etc. I just helped very gently.

It has worked a treat. Two of my sons are qualified Landscapers. And I get a real kick out of being asked about......The rest of the family have also learnt by trail and error and have a deep love for plants as well.

But after 28 year it is now my turn. Our children are now all adults. My wife is very happy, that at last I am into scaping our large waterfront block of land.

Now that I am no longer able to work I have turned into doing those things that I never got a chance to do as horticulturist.

Have built a 15m x 4m 50% shade bush house as a propagation area + a home for orchids and hanging baskets.

Have nearly finished a 20% shade bush house 6.5m x 5m for my tillandsia's.

I want to build an orchid, outside show room 5m x 4.5m out of lattice with table a chairs in the middle of this bush house. It would be so beautiful to do this. Can see at times being surrounded by flowering scented orchids while having a cup of coffee with friends and family.

Another part of the landscaping is using lattice screens as vertical gardens. Also posts 2.4m out of the ground with large pot attached on top with white wisteria growing in them. Being able to cascade down and be easy to maintain.

I do have a lot of area to work with.

An example of the lattice screens. Two days ago I made 100 steel pot hangers and placed my new orchids in them. It is now the 3rd day of rain. Nice way for my orchids to live in a new place.

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They look gorgeous! Congratulations on your new orchids.

Thank you very much Callie99.