A trip to Al's and a nice new Neo!

[Pattywack]

I've wanted to go to Al's orchids for weeks, today I asked my daughter to accompany me and we had an interesting time. It's been hot hot here and waay too humid for me but we went anyway. Temperature was 89, humidity was near the same, the greenhouse was extreme. The fans inside made it bearable so we toughed it out. Geeeez it was sticky!

We had been prowling around for nearly an hour when it began to get dark inside, seemed weird. There was rain in our forecast for later in the day. It quickly became very windy, noisy inside the greenhouse with the skin of the greenhouse flapping from one end to the other. Plants kinda swaying in the wind, creepy. Then the rain came pounding! I've never been inside a greenhouse in a storm. Al was unconcerned and the storm quickly passed leaving the temperature outside at a gorgeous 72!

My daughter found a couple of plants she had to have, I picked up Neo pots and net pots and a beautiful new Neofinetia Yasuri takakuma. The Neo has one spike still in bloom and another spike that has finished its blooms. There are ten fans on this plant.

It was a memorable afternoon to be sure and I got my Neo fix. Here is a couple of pictures of the Neo. As I understand the Yasuri refers to rasp or rough leaves and you can actually see this on the leaves. It has a nice white tiger variegation as well.