Local orchid club meeting booty!!!

[daemondamian]

I went to my local orchid club meeting last Thursday
and not only did I win Best Novice and get a ribbon and glass with the club logo embossed on it [it helps when you're the only novice ] but I was naughty and spent $57 on orchids that were at the sale table.

I got a good size, 6-10 leaved flowering Slc Precious Stones x C. Chocolate Drop ($22), 1 Oncidium kaulanii - mounted on a huge bit of treefern and in spike $10.00- and another smaller potted one of the same $5, an Oncidium Mickey Mouse [also on a huge treefern mount and in spike ] $10, and an Odontocidium Autum Tints [$10] which is on a huge mount with a really long flowerspike on it..

In addition to that my mum is also a member there and went to the last meeting and was given a flowering Oncidium flexuosum for free!!

I don't know if they're 'dogs' or not and frankly I don't care!

The flower spikes are so big I had to rearrange my whole hobby GH to get the mounts in [and some will have to moved or removed because there still not enough room for the potential size of the spikes] and now it's bursting at the seams!

The red flower is the Slc- one photo taken without the flash, one with the flash and one in the full on sun.