Spring 2011 Project - Plant Suggestions

[gnathaniel]

Originally Posted by RosieC

Has anyone in the USA got experience of Marble Branch Farms. Is this a vendor we can use for the project. I'm only willing to use it if some OB members have experience of them.

Most of my Cattleya-alliance species and hybrids come from them. They're always one of the vendors at our local orchid show (coming up next weekend) and I've got a small preorder placed with them.

I recommend them highly; their quality is great, prices are always very low, and they usually throw in interesting bonus plants for orders of more than a few orchids. I got a nice little Broughtonia sanguinea (a pinkish-red one, not the splash-petal type they have now) as a bonus plant with two $10 seedlings when my OS took a field trip to their nursery last year.

If Bro. sanguinea is chosen for the project and Marble Branch doesn't have enough in stock, H&R in Hawaii would be a good option for a large project order; they usually carry 3-4 color forms of the species.

--Nat