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Happy New Year

This is the best of my Cyclamen this winter, I think they need repotting.

 

First a many synonymed Crassula ovata. It lives in the cold greenhouse as now too big to fit on the windowsill. Probably 50 years plus and been flowering yearly for the past 20 or so.
Behind it is a fero cactus of similar age.

Austrocylindropuntia subulata is also aged and too large for the windowsills. A good example of why keeping the skin care up as you age is important.

 

My Schlumberera ‘ Christmas cactus ‘ still showing off in my conservatory, it’s quite a few years old now .

 

Many of our orchids are in flower now and cheer us up in these dull grey days.

 

Love the coelogyne particularly @On the levels - though the cymbidiums are looking good too! I'm never sure whether I like paphs though...

 

@CarolineL we grow species paphs and when in flower they stay for months like many orchids. We were given a Paph insigne with the Coelogyne cristata in 1978 as a gift when I left a workplace after I had been looking after the orchids in the greenhouse on the roof! These plants started us of on growing orchids. We have lost many but had others thrive and been able to split many and pass them onto family and friends.

 

I've been growing coelogyne cristata for a long time as well, but mine rarely flowers as well as that @On the Levels, they say its scented but I've never noticed it.

My big one has been left outside this winter as it got too heavy to move so I'm back to divisions now.

 

@pete we gave one division to a friend and for years she had no flower spikes. This Christmas we gave her another one with a spike on it. She gives her orchids too much feed and keeps them too warm for too long. Most of our orchids sit on gravel trays for humidity in the laundry room which has a glass roof. The heat comes from the kitchen and adjacent bathroom. cristata is allowed to shrivel its bulbs after flowering and then they plump up late autumn with flower spikes being produced. We don't put our orchids outside. They are misted with rain water at least 3 times a week but less in winter if very cold. Always watered with rain water.
This particular clone has lovely flowers and we have been aware of a slight fragrance now and then but it does need some sunshine through the glass roof to warm the area up.
@pete not wanting to tell you what to do but telling you what we have done over the years not always with success but with cristata it has been.

 

Yes, mine was in a hanging basket and greenhouse in winter, outside in shade in summer, I have been getting multiple flowers stems, but shorter than yours, usually about late April into May.
Yes the bulbs shrivel in winter, but because its cold in the greenhouse I dont start watering until March.
I find it easy, to grow, but was taken by the length of that flowering stem, it looks good.

 

I'm afraid as with most of my plants, my coelogyne doesn't get much tlc. But it flowers pretty well. I have trouble trying to find a good container for it, as it forms a long sequence of new growth. My cymbidiums go outside from May/June to October to get enough sun and cooler autumn.
When I was a teenager, I tried buying paph insigne from a general supplier and it failed immediately. Perhaps that put me off!
Your performance with such a range is impressive @On the Levels ! Now can you please suggest why my vanda caerulea flowers quite regularly but my ascocenda has only flowered once despite getting the same treatment?

 

@CarolineL we grew Vanda caerulea for some years but then it gave up on us. Not sure why. As to Ascocenda....didn't know this one so looked it up. While Vanda needs an intermediate temp it appears that Ascocenda needs heat. Could this be the problem?

 

Thanks @On the Levels - if heat is required, it's on to a loser, because I'm not keeping my house any warmer for it! They both went outside from June till October this year - which prompted the Vanda to flower.
The next cymbidium (intermediate size) is now flowering

And dendrochilum glumaceum

I have a soft spot for this plant. As a student (nearly 50 years ago!) I went to a meeting of the Manchester orchid society, and someone just gave me it as a gift! Of course I killed it. This is a new gift from a kind friend. It has a lovely perfume, and if/when it gets larger, is quite a sight covered in arching flower spikes.

 

This is one of the Zygopetalums. Fabulous scent.

 

Not as good as that zygopetalum, but my correa has flowered. It's called rosy something I think.