TODAY'S FLOWERS - More Orchids

Thank you Luiz for featuring me today as your Guest Friend!

Here are a few more orchids from my my dear friends' garden:

This orchid, with it's tiny, lace like flowers, was a good 5' wide

and 4' high. In fact, it was so big, I could not fit all of it into 

the frame. It is worth enlarging to see the branches laded with

buds of promise.

Their shade-houses were extensive and full of blooms, in a season

when nature is winding down and there is a constant chill in the 

air, in John and Beverley's garden, you would think it was 

perpetual spring.

This one was such an unusual shade of pink and fuchsia.

Thanks to Luiz Santilli Jr. and his team, we can enjoy flowers all year round!

TODAY'S FLOWERS - from John's Shade-house

On Friday we went out for lunch with our dear friends

John and Bev who, 26 years ago, established the Murray

Bridge and District Orchid Club. It was a great pleasure

to wander through their shade-houses and see that even now,

in the off season for orchids, they still have an array of

wonderful blooms.

The oddest plant I have ever seen is this Ceropegia ampliata,

that also has a somewhat rude common name which I leave to

your imagination.

Keeping to the same colour scheme, don't you just love the

little curls on this orchid?

God willing, I'll show you many more orchids next week.

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TODAY'S FLOWERS - Orchids

I grow my orchids in a shade-house but unfortunately I have

no covered area to protect them under as they come into bud

and flower. This hanging basket, 14" in diameter, I put into my

studio and hey presto!, perfect flowers for the first time.

The little orchid at the back of the pot is doing well because

it is sitting on the moist mix in the hanging basket

and this is the bigger one complete with cobwebs.

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