Orchids

[smoker49]

One of my other hobbies is growing orchids. I currently have a pretty cool one in bloom, and I thought you guys might like to see it. This one is Cycnoches Swan Cascade, because from the side the flower looks like a swan. It's a hybrid, bred from several different Cycnoches species. The flowers actually bloom upside down, and as many as 30 flowers can bloom on a single spike. Each flower is the size of a baseball.

 

[dervis]

I like it.

 

[gwtwdbss]

That is a cool orchid.

 

[pstlpkr]

Beautifu!

Very cool Smoker49.

But, Nero Wolfe smoked cigars...

He drank Grolsch... So he can't be all bad. :D
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[vinvin]

I love orchids! My dad loves to grow em and I think they are just beautiful!

 

[smoker49]

That's funny Lawrence. I still have not read any Nero Wolfe books. I guess I should someday.

 

[smoker49]

Vinvin, do you know the species that he grows?
Here is another that just finished blooming for me...

Paphiopedilum spicerianum - a slipper orchid from Bhutan and Myanmar.

 

[lankfordjl]

I was into orchids for a little while. All epiphytes interest me...I had about 4 species of staghorn ferns for a while...now only one. Do you have a "ghost orchid", Dendrophylax lindenii? It was the last orchid that I tried to obtain before I stopped with the hobby.

 

[photoman13]

Very cool! Those first ones are my favorite!

 

[smoker49]

I've killed three ghost orchids. They just don't like my growing conditions.

 

[pstlpkr]

I grow Ghost Chilies... Does that count? :D

 

[lankfordjl]

I never got to purchase one. The price was never right. Knowing the conditions that they like, I think I could at least keep one alive. I love making terrariums that can self sustain...or need little care.

 

[lankfordjl]

@Lawrence
I need to do that next. I've read your posts and love HOT peppers.

 

[buzkirk]

Awesome !!!!
Beautiful flowers, wish i had a green thumb !
Tom

 

[philip]

I envy your ability to grow them, Smoker49. I can't grow anything but seaweed.
But I do know we have some wild Orchids around here. They're tiny and you have to know where to look.
We have

Fairyslippers (Calypso bulbosa)

and Mountain Ladyslippers (Cypripedium montanun).