Show Us Your HousePlants In Bloom Now 2023/2024

Our Cymbidium giganteum was purchased 3 years ago with just one back bulb. It is now flowering for the first time and how beautiful it is.

 

That's pretty impressive, I used to have a couple of old Cymbidiums that grew really large.

I think in general they have bred them smaller these days, probably because they fit better as house plants, but bigger ones are more impressive.

 

and Are thy outdoors ... and where are you please?

 

@pete we try to grow orchid species and not hybrids. Many years ago a friend had some hybrids and was very poorly and asked us to take his plants. The one in the photos is a species.
@Victoria SW England.

 

The two I had were named, so probably hybrids, they were given to me
by a mate who originally got them from Reeds Nursery, somewhere up in east Anglia I think, but probably gone now.

Papillon and Dorchester as I remember, Dorchester had the largest flowers.

I wish I had kept them going, but they did get big and overwintering was a problem.

 

I have been reading a chap's website who grows cymbidium - species mostly.
Jearrard's Herbal
Website a bit hard to read, but he has grown a staggering range of plants
He very kindly responded to an email and said his are kept in an unheated greenhouse! But he is in the southwest

 

A few years ago, during a mild winter, I had a couple of cymbidiums survive outside over winter, even a touch of frost didn't harm them so I can well believe they can do well in an unheated greenhouse.
I think I remember reading they need night temperatures below a certain level in order to form flower stems and buds.

 

I recently watched a programme on a guy who specialises in them in Madeira, taken over from his mother. He also had amazing Spanish Moss that you could swing on. When I lived in South Carolina I swung on it there. Grand fun.

 

Yes, below 55F. So mine stay outside till end of September as the greenhouse would keep them too warm due to sun. Currently I have 4-5 in bud, including a standard with big flowers. The ones I didn't bother to move outside for the summer don't appear to have formed flower stems

 

Christmas Cactus showing off as usual this time of year.

 

That’s very impressive! Mine has zero buds atm

 

Kalanchoe ??

 

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana