My new miltoniopsis in bloom

[camille1585]

Last week while I was at the garden center I saw that they were having a valentine's special on miltoniopsis, only 6€ each.

Over here commerical growers have the nasty habit of planting the young plants in bark without removing the tight sphag beforehand, leaving a sphag core that retains way too much water. Result is root rot guaranteed even before they hit the shelves and I have never managed to revive any I have bought. So I was hiding in a corner of the store pulling plants out of their pots until I found one that had SOME live roots. Hope it'll make it.

Not too keen on the colors/pattern, but they were all in bud. Also not a fragrant as the yellow or white ones. Does have 4 spikes though!