A bit late but here I am. Asc. Crownfox 'Golden Dawn'.
Laurel
August Orchids
This was a gift from my DG friend, and fellow orchid enthusiast, Hawkarica. Here is the plant.
WOW!!! Gorgeous color!!! LOVE IT!!
:) Thanks Loco. It's pretty flashy.
Miami neighbor gifted this orchid as a few bare Dendrobium canes that I mounted a year ago Nov..
A NOID, maybe Miltassia?
'nother shot.
My orchids outside in August.
Nice lush looking cymbidiums Maypoplaurel. I don't have many new flowers and Leeanum twins just aren't facing the same way.
closer
Insigne twins still going but getting faded.
Vandas been flowering for months.
and i love invinsible
Cleisostoma sagittatum. Very tiny flowers and plant.
Bree, Cymbidiums seem to be very happy on the decks in this ridiculous heat. We'll see what they do come winter. Several of them retired here to the South from New England.
Yeah mine are in full sun almost and all flowering or just finished. And i didnt move them come winter and they'll loving it.
Asc. Crownfox 'Golden Dawn' looks great, Laurel, and your posting put a smile on my face. I posted it in bloom last April so it looks like you can expect several blooms per year.
Here is Rhynochostylis retusa.
Jim
I tried to get a view from farther back but my lens kept fogging up. The humidity here is off the charts.
Jim
I probably wouldn't have enough heat or light to get it to bloom twice, Jim but I'm glad it made you smile. Hoping you have an even bigger smile when you see this photo.
BTW, the Rhynchostylis is a beauty! I used to have it in another orchid life, but never as gorgeous as yours.
Here's a Degarmoara 'Sky Walker' HCC/AOS on the way out bloom-wise. It was a cheapy rescue from two years ago and had only a few flowers this year.
I feel like a proud papa. Congrats!! Nice color on Sky Walker.
Here is Blc Magic Meadows 'Napoleon' X Blc Chunyeah 'TW'
Jim
Nice, Jim. My one Cat in bud (a double) had one of the buds sawed off. It was the Bl. Richard Mueller x aclandiae I got on the first Apopka trip.
Three people came from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens yesterday to hike around Maypop. They were looking for Platanthera integrilabia (monkey face orchids) http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogdr/3782804965/. They didn't find any, but found other orchids that are associated with their habitat. They will monitor the property for what might be rare trilliums, ferns and other orchids. It was a fun and educational experience. They left their field guide here and I've been busy wearing out the pages before returning it.
paph liemianum x concolor
paph primcolor
got this paph fairrieanum x victoria-regina sent in the mail, one flower was past it but the other buds might open.
the flower i cut off.
Bl. Richard Muellar x C. aclandiae. This is the orchid that had two buds but one disappeared overnight. The flowers become darker yellow each day. It's still young in my collection. I'd love to see it with a bunch of flowers.
bud opened..yeah!
love it
liem. x concolor now open
and primcolor
Very nice paph show, Bree. You do so well with them.
Laurel, love the Richard Muellar cross and those big red pouty lips.
Let me post my Stanhopeas here. This is Stanhopea wardii:
Jim
And the cluster:
JIm
Then there is Stanhopea oculatta:
Jim
thanks jim, you do pretty well with stanopeas also.
Bree, great job on the Paphs. as usual. You, Janice and Todd have the magic touch with slippers.
Jim, I have the tiniest Stanhopea wardii in a 2" pot. It's put out lots of new growth this summer but I keep asking myself why I did that. Will I live to see it bloom? I'll have to settle for enjoying yours.
The Prosthechea cochleata is still blooming sequentially from the same spikes since last November. There are new leads starting and I wonder if they'll pick up when these quit. The pbs are packed so tightly that some of the new leaf growth is getting smashed trying to emerge. I hope they straighten out. Anyone had this problem?
This morning an orchid that I bought last year was discovered to be in full bloom. I never thought it would bloom again after I bought it... I now own 2! &:-) A 'moth' orchid I bought years ago and this one... I loved the flowers. They're SO wierd! I call it the 'predator' orchid. The tag doesn't really have a name, it just says 'intergenetic'....?
I found the bloom spike on it last month....
And here it is today..
ok, one more pic. &:-D
Thanks for sharing. I'm not very knowledgeable regarding intergenerics, but here is a site and Google intergeneric (not genetic) orchids. http://www.gublers.com/Pages/Orchid%20Tabs/intergeneric.html There's lots of info out there though you won't know exactly what you have. They are basically crosses of several related orchids, thus the name means "between genera". I have a few, such as the questionable Miltasssia posted at the beginning of this thread and the Degarmoara posted on August 10th. It does seem to be their season. I have another named Miltassia that blooms more into Fall. Since most are Oncidium relatives I made the mistake early on of giving them too much sun and not enough water. My experience since then is that they prefer indirect light and not to dry out. They don't like soggy growing medium either and should be potted as soon as they finish blooming.
Laurel
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wow nice. Looks like a miltassia (miltonia x brassia), not sure which though.
I found the tag! It says Y445 Exotic orchid 'White Knight'
patent process initiated...? A patented orchid?