Bournemouth Show February 25th 2012

Sweet plants! LOVE the Encyclia vitellinum! (Your id skills are quite correct, Geoff).

Beautiful green flowered cym. Love all the color and flower shapes one gets to see at shows!

Wonderfully grown masdie!

I LOVE Cochlioda rosea! Alas! It is a cool grower and so I know I will not be able to grow it. (Saw one last year at a show by me. Was SO disappointed to discover its temperature requirements. )

*sigh* Love odonts and milts but their tall spikes and cool temp requirements pretty much make them "look & admire but don't buy" plants for me.

That is a very interersting color on the Cyrtochilum. Not a shade often seen, IME. Interesting Masdie species too.

The last one is WONDERFUL! (Though I, too, am drawing a blank on its name -- and I know I've seen the name before.)

Awesome, thanks for sharing !!

The Cochlioda rosea is suberb !!

Wow the cattleya looks like Blc. Malwarth, the yellow is so intense !

beautiful, thank you - martha

Thanks for these, the photos are fantastic, goes to show what a good camera will give you instead of my little digital point and shoot that I take with me every where. - martha

Ophrys species-don't know which one.

Oncidium cheirophorum.

Thanks for the pictures Geoff.

Great show. Love the cymbidiums and the Cyrtochilum. What an intense red phrag.

Again thanks Geof for the superb pictures.

Originally Posted by Halloamey

Wow the cattleya looks like Blc. Malwarth, the yellow is so intense !

It was one of the Chinese names -three short words - I didn't bother to note it down saying to myself - oh yes I know that - I've got a plant.... now I can't recall it !

Originally Posted by smurphr

Geoff, i know youve done a lot of traveling but have you ever managed to make over here to taiwan? we have a weekend market (as well as a daily market i dont get to make it to very often) that rivals any international orchid show on a daily basis... it's simply sick, the variety, quantity, and quality of the orchids here... and the price is mind bogglingly cheap... i suggest a visit if the opportunity for travel comes round... if not, i am still curious about the legalities of sending flasks, cuz i would be more than happy to send a little love to any OT member whose country will allow it...or even an anonymous package if one was so willing ;-)

I'll send you a pm about this.

Nice pics. I especially like the Bee Orchid.

Interesting and sad to note: no young people attending the show...average 55 or over...

Originally Posted by Ephemera

Interesting and sad to note: no young people attending the show...average 55 or over...

You are right - but it was often thus in my whole life ; obviously I was an exception, since I started growing when a mere lad in my 20's, and when Secretary of my first orchid society I think there were just two of us of my sort of age on the Committee, and not a lot of members at meetings of similar age out of the 100 or so present, all the rest were 50+.
A matter of available time and money to some extent I think . The demands of mortgage and kids, both financially and in time occupied may not leave a lot of time for hobbies of any sort , but as the fledglings leave the nest etc., time expands, and hey , you have a few coins to jingle for the first time... and so on.

The last photo is not Coelogyne cristata. It most likely is Coel. Unchainted Melody.