Orchids: Our December Holiday Blooms, 1 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
Elaine, it was not all that long ago when my goal was to post one blooming orchid a month. When I joined DG in '07 I was coming back to orchids after nearly twenty years away. There was a lot of re-learning that went along with the new learning. My advice is to be patient and, since we know that will fail, buy more orchids.

Peg, Jim is bad about having too much fun. When the two of us get together there is so much fun going on it's ridiculous! Even SO, who is not an orchid grower, has fun when Jim is around.

I experimented today with a cheap hand magnifier. Once one of the kids was magnifier and fire experimenting and blew up a glass deodorant bottle with this magnifier. That's how it came into my possession; it was confiscated. The first photo is the humidistat. I was trying to anchor the magnifier with a big office paper clip and impress everyone with my super humidity at this time of year.