Orchids and billbergia

Thankyou Fran shall keep you posted how she performs.

 

My orchid which recently bloomed, it was so lovely.








What is the best way to cut and re-pot the two extra plants that grew on the end of the flower spurs and when to cut and replant in new pots?

 

They are beautiful, davris. I guess this is the one I saw when last there ... forever ago?

My Cymbidium sent up flower stalks then suddenly died but now has two new leaf shoots. Did you bulb root from me?

 

No the Cymbidium didn't live but look at the little critter that did live and took off with relish.




Just like topsy (it grew)

 

That's a very nice one davris, and I do like the pot too. Just be careful of those dangerous spikes!

I see that you have an avatar now, it makes it so much easier to "see" people. Is it possible to enlarge it though?

 

Ola davris ... love the avatar!

Well done on the Agave!

What are the pompom things hanging by the fence?

 

Not sure of the proper name LoL,we call it the Snowball tree.

I think it is from the Viburnim family .

Thanks for the remarks on my avatar I thoght I would give a try and it worked the Irises are in the Garden now but I might try changing to a better pic

 

It is the Viburnum opulus 'Sterile' which I thought it looked it. They had them here at Mestre Maco last Autumn and I was sorely tempted but slapped my hands and told myself I didn't need another shrub ... and I already have one Viburnum.

You seem to be getting the hang of things now!

 

We gave this lovely orchid to the kids yesterday for their anniversary. It had 4 blooms open and 24 buds!

 

thats really nice kedigato lovely pretty pink, its a plant i have never had they look so delicate and my room is quite dark so plants dont do too well in mine

 

That's a beauty Kedi-Gato I bet the kids loved it

 

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Did you ever find out how to do this davris?

 

My fine friends at Lidl had some orchids again the other day - and I couldn't resist these three for the collection....

A Cambria (not a type I knew - an artificial genus, apparently, produced by hybridising):



A gorgeous Dendrobium:



And a beautiful, scented Zygopetalum - on my desk now so I can enjoy it...:



And well under �£7 each! Beats me how they do it. Next week they've got Jewel Orchids for 2.99 euros - that's less than two quid!!! Think I'll pay 'em a visit.... :D

 

Thought I'd pop this one in, too, as a curiosity - this phalaenopsis arrived as a birthday pressie last September, and these are the original blooms it had when it came!!! Can't be bad. It's certainly given us a lot of pleasure!

 

The one I received for Mother's Day last year lasted a good 5 months but yours really takes the cake! It's a pretty colour, delicate looking.