I have had an incredibly busy start to the summer, my lovely sister is getting married tonight… congratulations!! But there is also a lot blooming in the orchid room, I just need to find the time to share it with you all! Well, here comes a first summer greeting at last. My Cattleya [...]
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Allow me to present this years edition of Cattleya intermedia var. orlata, one of my absolute favorites from the Cattleya genus. I jokingly call her the queen of my collection, as she definitely commands respect with her timeless beauty. A faithful bloomer every spring, although this year she is almost a month early early [...] I came home from a few days of vacation to this lovely little one in full bloom. It is a mini Cattleya hybrid from Karge in Germany, and it is their own hybrid named after the town where the family lives. There is not much information to be found about this hybrid on the [...] I this is one of the nicer looking Cattleyas there are. The shape and subtle coloring really appeals to me. It is a cool to warm growing medium sized Cattleya with nice long-lived, fragrant, waxy flowers. My clone does not have a very strong scent, but you can definitely smell it in the early morning [...] This weekend the remaining Cattleya schilleriana flask babies moved out of the community pot to single occupancy dwellings. Since I mounted the first few babies several months ago and placed them in the warm vivarium, I wanted to try growing these in intermediate conditions. I mounted the strongest one and hung it in the window, the remaining little ones [...] This lovely creation is blooming for me right now. You would have to look hard for a more sensual and lushious flower! The shape, the color, the sweet pearls of glucose excretion… oh it’s getting hot in here…! I bought this plant from Marita Åkesson a year and a half ago. The shoot this year grew twice [...] It’s time for a budthroscopy again, this time of my Cattleya intermedia var. orlata. You can see that she is dishing up two flowers this time around. Oh what fun! You can se the last budthroscopy of a Prostechea cochleata here. Ms. Cattleya is feeling shamefully good this spring… the new shoot is nearly twice as big as the ones from [...] |
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