May 24, 2022
I did it. ❤️
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I did it. ❤️
Oh, to be a sleeping tabby cat inside a cardboard box, next to two chocolate cosmos and inside a warm greenhouse
Some INCREDIBLE orchids at the annual Northwest Orchid Society fall sale and show last weekend, at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle!
The Phragmipediums are always my favorites, but I have a newly kindled interest in the mini orchids — mounted on a cork board, they could fit inside the palm of your hand, and yet their showy blooms sometimes rival even the largest of orchids!
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More show-stopping orchids, and a few more plants from around Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory! Staghorn ferns and airplants are two big favorites of mine, and the Conservatory did not disappoint in those regards, with four massive Platycerium bifurcatum (elkhorn) ferns throughput the building, and an entire room devoted to bromeliads!
Someday, I hope to have an airplant colony as large as the ones I saw there.
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What’s in a season, anyways? 🍂
OMG! At the monthly Pacific Northwest Orchid Society Meeting, we were treated to an awesome presentation on mini orchids — orchids that stay teeny forever!
There were so many amazing little jewels to peruse that picking a favorite was basically impossible. Aerangis punctata is on my wish list. I really, really want a Schoenorchis fragrans (plant on the right cork slab) just to flex on having such a small (wearable!?) orchid. For today, however, I just couldn’t resist the allure of Trichoglottis pusilla (plant on the left cork slab). Tiny white flowers with pink stripes, and a fragrance that is apparently divine, what’s not to like?
...maybe the daunting possibility that I may swiftly injure this plant through mistreatment. Ah, that’s what research is for.
Vibing with my vines at 3 AM
Aftermath of my slight Pilea damage! I’m pretty sure that it’s absolutely impossible to propogate it from a single leaf, but time will tell...