Neostylis Lou Sneary "mounted"

[Fernando]

Well, I'll try to show a little more and explain a bit...

1. twigs, different sizes. The small one look like wings in the finished basket. The Neofinetia basket is fundamentally the same, just 14 twigs all of the same length, more or less. two wires, one at 5 cm from the top and one about 3 cm from the bottom.

2. There is no limit to fantasy. Just image how wide you want the spaces between the twigs.

3. horizontal baskets with four sides (four wires) and six sides (six wires). If you want you can begin with short ones and end with longer twigs. I recommend to choose the last - upper - one a bit shorter.

4. four sided, straight and somehow simple...

5. filling the bottom with palm tree fibre - those sheaths that wrap around the centre and the young leaves -

6. after planting it needs some time in settling down. After a few weeks you may like to tighten the wires.

7. without substrate, just a way to hold big vanda-roots somehow together and a bit protected

8. for my phal. lindenii...

8a. just use little twigs and go on with slightly bigger ones, choosing the thick twigs only at one side - this way the basket bends like a cornucopia. Great fun doing it!!!

9. Only the upper part is filled with substrate, the rest stay empty