Orchids
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Paradise! Is it difficult to maintain orchids?
Mrs.B
Treehouser
They're beautiful!
sotc
Dormant hero!!
no wonder ours always die, we dont have indoor trees for them 
beautiful gigi
beautiful gigi
Che
Treehouser
no wonder ours always die, we dont have indoor trees for them
That must have been my problem, too. Who knew!?
They're beautiful, Gigi. I'm very jealous.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
heck yeah, this is an orchid thread!
TheTreeWiseMen
Redneck Limey
Cool pics. I assume you guys know that there are more types of orchid than any other flower.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I've often thought I should use my growroom expertise to try growing orchids for some minor profit. It would be cool to sell them.
Labour of Love
Treehouser
Here are pix of what are blooming indoors for me (terrestrials rather than epiphytes). All are Epidendrum radicans, some are hybrids, some are not.
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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
They grow like that in low light?
Labour of Love
Treehouser
They are in South-facing windows and most will bloom for AT LEAST 3 to 4 months. They hybrid purple one has not been out of bloom for over a year. Epis of the sort that I grow are small-flowered and are cluster bloomers - opening a few blooms at a time over a long period of time. I have a total of 15 colors: 8 are blooming now, 3 have recently finished up and the remainder have bloom spikes in varying stages of development.
They are popular outdoor plants in the tropics. The old-fashioned sorts are kind of leggy and sprawl-y - perfect for a wild garden area. The hybrids have been bred for less height and shorter spaces between internodes as well as for unusual colors.
Here are pictures (before & after) of some mixed in with other plants in a commercial planting that replaced a non-functioning water feature. I did this about 2 months ago in South Florida at an Outback restaurant.
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Mr. Sir
Guest
Nice job! 
BTW, how does a gal from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont get a job like that in south Florida? 
BTW, how does a gal from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont get a job like that in south Florida? 
jamie
Wud Kutta
A common spotted orchid, the picture was taken on teh isle of Skye, my good lady was stomping off on teh 8mile return over the hills when i spotted this.
jamie
jamie
Che
Treehouser
VERY cool! I've never seen anything quite like this one:
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Mr. Sir
Guest
Very anthropomorphic! 
It looks like a cartoon character.
It looks like a cartoon character.
Labour of Love
Treehouser
Nice job!
I grew up in S. Florida and don't want to lose my tropical chops, so I go down there every year to cut trees and do some landscaping for a few clients (when it's all froze up at home). There is also a great tropical plant trade show in Ft. Lauderdale every January that I arrange my work schedule around.
You all would be proud of me, I dropped a 70' pine into a 6' wide corridor/drop zone that was bounded on both sides by sprinkler systems and other landscaping. Also managed to miss the orange tree at the very tip of that 70' by less than a foot. Talk about tight. Not climbable either, struck by lightning and (scarey) stone dead. The down side of working alone is the inability to take action pix.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
WTG!!!! 
gf beranek
Old Schooler
We have a few native orchids here, but only one that is showy. The rest are non-descript.
