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James, how cold does it get where you are? We put our orchids in our trees outside. Shake the dirt off the roots and attach them with a pantyhose leg, wrapping the pantyhose around the limb and plant. Eventually, the roots take hold of the tree and hold on all by themselves.
http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=12161
.No, once they have wrapped their roots around the tree, they are on their own.
Do you have to water them?
Wow, they look like 'lil birds!
I've seen friends hang a piece of burl in the shower, with planted orchids in the pockets.
warm and humid.
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Seemed to work and cool looking showering with orchids.
They are called the Parrot Flower, I edited my post, added the name
I've never seen anything like it. Mother nature is awesome!!!
Here is another example of mother natures awesomeness:
Oprys Insectifera, a vild orchid which is foud in a nearby forest. It is the only place in Denmark, it grows. really rare, this one.
It mimics a female wasp and even releases a copy of the wasp's pheromones.
When the male wasp tries to breed with it, the flower gets pollinated.
The male wasps hatch about a week before the females and that is right when the Ophrys flowers, so the wasps race around trying to mate with the flowers, until the female wasps show up.
Makes for a somewhat complicated sex-life.