The little brassavola that could!

[mde]

This Brassavola nodosa has never bloomed more than one spike with 2 flowers on it at a time since I got it. I didn't pay much attention to the growths over the last few months, so I was surprised to see so many spikes developing at once, many of them with three flowers each. It's very happy! And so is my house at night. This is a pretty common species in cultivation, but if any of you haven't smelled how strong the amazing fragrance is (the best of any orchid I've ever smelled), you should give this easy, compact growing plant a try. The blooms last quite a long while. Too bad they haven't developed the technology to post smells (of course that could be also be a really bad technology now that I think about it!)

-Matt