chrismende
October 4th, 2009, 04:39 AM
Well, you all probably remember this stage: or perhaps there are folks here newer still...
Today I went to California Orchids annual open-to-the-public day and spent another three hundred dollars...about 12 plants, six new paphs (mostly species) and my first phrag! I'm finally at the stage of doing things like buying a second gatrixianum because theirs looked so different from the one I just bought from Andy's Orchids a couple weeks ago... and I don't HAVE a greenhouse. My flat felt spacious (for San Francisco) until the past few months. Much of my photo studio and digital workroom are now occupied by metal shelving for lights and much more humid than the digital workroom really should be. Choices, choices.
So, the collection of paphs is now 53 plants and there is the new phrag.
And there are other genera as well, naturally. I just love the paphs best.
Someday soon I'll list the actual plants and you guys can help me sort out who goes in which room. Soon I'll get the photos uploaded, too.
Whew!
I'm actually in a sort of nirvana. I'm so excited I can hardly express it about all the unopened buds here and there, all the wonderfully different leaf patterns and textures, all the jungle on the kitchen table! Thank the Great Spirit my roommate is indulgent (I'm actually simply renting him a small room, but my active footprint in the rest of the flat is kinda overwhelming at times).
OK. A teaser: the Phrag is Sorcerer's Apprentice x warscewiczianum in it's first bloom (one open, one to come). It's leaves are a wonderful glossy beetle-green magic and it has a quite large second growth coming along.
I'll be back with photos and a real list soon. Promise.
Today I went to California Orchids annual open-to-the-public day and spent another three hundred dollars...about 12 plants, six new paphs (mostly species) and my first phrag! I'm finally at the stage of doing things like buying a second gatrixianum because theirs looked so different from the one I just bought from Andy's Orchids a couple weeks ago... and I don't HAVE a greenhouse. My flat felt spacious (for San Francisco) until the past few months. Much of my photo studio and digital workroom are now occupied by metal shelving for lights and much more humid than the digital workroom really should be. Choices, choices.
So, the collection of paphs is now 53 plants and there is the new phrag.
And there are other genera as well, naturally. I just love the paphs best.
Someday soon I'll list the actual plants and you guys can help me sort out who goes in which room. Soon I'll get the photos uploaded, too.
Whew!
I'm actually in a sort of nirvana. I'm so excited I can hardly express it about all the unopened buds here and there, all the wonderfully different leaf patterns and textures, all the jungle on the kitchen table! Thank the Great Spirit my roommate is indulgent (I'm actually simply renting him a small room, but my active footprint in the rest of the flat is kinda overwhelming at times).
OK. A teaser: the Phrag is Sorcerer's Apprentice x warscewiczianum in it's first bloom (one open, one to come). It's leaves are a wonderful glossy beetle-green magic and it has a quite large second growth coming along.
I'll be back with photos and a real list soon. Promise.