Orchid Karma :: An orchid blog » Paphiopedilum Ho Chi Minh http://www.orchidkarma.com My name is Karma, I am from Gothenburg, Sweden and I blog about my orchid obsession. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:30:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When the Vietnamese beauty appear, Easter is near… http://www.orchidkarma.com/when-the-vietnamese-beauty-appear-easter-is-near/ http://www.orchidkarma.com/when-the-vietnamese-beauty-appear-easter-is-near/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:27:49 +0000 Karma http://www.orchidkarma.com/?p=2267 …Ok… rhyming is not my strength… so we’ll move right along. The first bud on my Paphiopedilum Ho Chi Minh just opened, so now I know it can’t be long until Easter. In the wild the seed parent usually blooms  in March, something this popular hybrid has taken after. You can almost set your [...]]]> http://www.orchidkarma.com/when-the-vietnamese-beauty-appear-easter-is-near/feed/ 0 Paphiopedilum Ho Chi Minh http://www.orchidkarma.com/paphiopedilum-ho-chi-minh/ http://www.orchidkarma.com/paphiopedilum-ho-chi-minh/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:52:04 +0000 Karma http://orchidkarma.com/?p=1000

Gesundheit! No, seriously… Ho Chi Minh is the name of my lovely easter flower this year. Yes, of course it’s an orchid!  I bought this one from Karge at an orchid show a few weeks ago, and now the bud has finally opened. Just in time for the easter weekend!

It is a primary [...]]]> http://www.orchidkarma.com/paphiopedilum-ho-chi-minh/feed/ 0 The haul from the weekend orchid show… http://www.orchidkarma.com/the-haul-from-the-weekend-orchid-show/ http://www.orchidkarma.com/the-haul-from-the-weekend-orchid-show/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:33:29 +0000 Karma http://orchidkarma.com/?p=876 This was a good day for the orchid fiend. There was a (very small) orchid show at one of the flowershops an hour north of here. I had special ordered a few plants from the main grower supplying the show, Karge from Germany, but of course there were several impulse buys as well…  

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