Sunday, October 17, 2010

An Orchid Show...


Hello Dhaaarlings...

I recently took the Empress along to have a look at our local Orchid Clubs Annual Show
Both of us were so excited about getting out for the day we both forgot to take our cameras...
Dispite the lack of pictures of the beautiful displays...
I in my usual fashion I came home sporting four new specimens for the fernery...
 At under $20 each who could resist?...

Two Pink Cymbidiums






One Brown Cymbidium....
That I hope to be much darker than this Light Browny Green one that lives with me already...
 and... as you can see is happily flowering...

The new one is sporting a flower spike which I am eagerly awating to open... so that I can see what colour it truly is.... the waiting is like Christmas...
And...Finally....

  

This Creamy White with a Pale Lemon Center...
Again a Cymbidium.

I also have several huge pots of Cymbidiums that I have inherited from old Uncles and Grandparents
And although the pots that they are in are only small the plants themselves have grown to about 4 foot in diameter!

They are the original form of Cymbidiums I think...



They have a pale green/yellow flower with burgundy spots in their centres



This particular one started out at my Nan's in an old buscuit tin...
35 years ago...
It is now pot-bound and every year has less and less flower spikes

I think that it is about time to take to them all with an axe and re-pot them...

The Axe was suggested by the man at the orchid show

(I guess he knew what he was talking about as he'd won first prize for every plant he had entered in the show)...

So I figure I'll give the axe a go...

I just love Spring... Don't You?...

9 comments:

  1. Oooo, they're lovely, Petal.

    It's Autumn here with a nip in the air.

    *takes nip to avoid chill*

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  2. I now have two Cymbidiams sitting next to my bed. One white, the other a dusky red. I've also got about 7 or 8 Phalaeonopes as well as 3 or 4 Dendrobiums.

    I just can't, can't get enough of them.

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  3. I'm thinking blockbuster horror movie franchise! Nightmare on Princess' Street: An axe-wielding orchid expert terrorizes the local orchids!

    Oh Hai MJ & Roses!

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  4. Please don't take an axe to them, they are too pretty.
    Sx

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  5. My mother has a fondness for the orchid and she has a rather sad looking labia minorca specimen on her kitchen window ledge.

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  6. it's orchid time around here, too! yours are gorgeous, sugar. i've tried to keep them longer than a season, but i guess i just don't have the touch. *sigh*
    xoxoxox

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  7. Oh hai Ms Scarlet, XL and Savannah.

    I agree, an axe would be overkill.

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  8. Hi MJ
    Next to roses they are one of my favourite Blooms...
    Stay Warm...I keep forgetting that i'm in the reverse season down here!

    Hi Roses
    Looks like you got yourself the start of a collection. I have a Dendrobuim too. But the Phalanopsis orchids.... athough beautiful and delicate scare me at the thought of attempting growing one... I think that our weather gets a little cool for them without a glass house (As Yet)...
    And the man at the orchid show assures me that the Axe is the appropriate tool for the job when the plants get so overgrown pot bound and unproductive, Stay tuned for progress updates!

    Dear Xl
    What a great Idea. I'm looking forward to posting some stills of the first axings in a trilogy!
    (there are three big pots that need seperating)
    Axes and carving knives are tools of the trade apparently among the orchid growing set...Not just Serial Killers!

    Dear Scarlet
    Please don't dispair. I have it on good authority that overgrown orchids respond well to the use of the axe. They will thank me later ... I hope... by providing me with a bounty of beautiful blooms in years to come...

    Dear Savannah
    I have had my failures tooo.
    Unfortunately i killed several with kindness... Too much water (Rotting Bulbs) and too much fertilizer...(foliage only and no flowers)!
    But they are pretty to look at....

    Dear Mago
    Yes, I have Orchids. I know that they are not edible... Like the plants in the vegetable garden but they do provide lots of colour to the fernery when they are in bloom...

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