orchids on balcony in bloom!

[smurphr]

beings that most everything in noid or lost tags and that im just too lazy to split the pics up, i hope bruce will forgive me if i dump a few too many pics at one time... just wanted to share whats blooming today on the old balcony! it's tomb sweeping time so i've got the day off work and a finally a few minutes to enjoy some quality puttering time!

first up, two forms of tanks, the second being much smaller and nodding quite devoutly...
next, a few phals that are tacked to the sides of hanging baskets and therefore very difficult to photograph... nearly dropped my phone off the balcony trying to get these pics

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next we have two lovely lealia somethings, they are also twinsies the first being a very small version of the second

(the second is actually the one i bought for our dear phillip, after leaving it at the temple for an appropriate amount of time... along with some fruit and bits and bobs one might want in the hereafter... i took it back home... it hasnt stopped blooming for one second and has another spike up with 4 more buds on it... for maura)

[mauraec]

next we have two lovely lealia somethings, they are also twinsies the first being a very small version of the second

(the second is actually the one i bought for our dear phillip, after leaving it at the temple for an appropriate amount of time... along with some fruit and bits and bobs one might want in the hereafter... i took it back home... it hasnt stopped blooming for one second and has another spike up with 4 more buds on it... for maura)

Just happened to see this thread, Shane. You dear thing! You've made my day!!!! Those laelias look like Richard Mueller hybrids and are very fine indeed! I shall have to designate one of my orchids in your (and Jeffrey's? Is that him in the background?) honor. I've been promising myself to capture some of the really pretty ones I have in bloom right now - my lanai is overflowing, although, since I've been staying with my parents, they are rather orderly!

Hugs and kisses in your general direction!

[smurphr]

Just happened to see this thread, Shane. You dear thing! You've made my day!!!! Those laelias look like Richard Mueller hybrids and are very fine indeed! I shall have to designate one of my orchids in your (and Jeffrey's? Is that him in the background?) honor. I've been promising myself to capture some of the really pretty ones I have in bloom right now - my lanai is overflowing, although, since I've been staying with my parents, they are rather orderly!

Hugs and kisses in your general direction!

if you're talkin bout the fat faced potato in this series of pics, no thats me... jeffrey is much hotter... and taiwanese ... though i do have to say the flu/tonsillitis combo ive been rocking for 9 days now has kick started my summer weight loss program with a bang!
glad to hear you are with the folks and surrounded by tons of blooms... i myself am just sitting back watching taipei get all the rain it should have gotten in the last 4 months in these 4 days we have as a holiday... woooh... good times! (honestly i love the excuse to do absolutely nothing!)

[mauraec]

if you're talkin bout the fat faced potato in this series of pics, no thats me... jeffrey is much hotter... and taiwanese ... though i do have to say the flu/tonsillitis combo ive been rocking for 9 days now has kick started my summer weight loss program with a bang!
glad to hear you are with the folks and surrounded by tons of blooms... i myself am just sitting back watching taipei get all the rain it should have gotten in the last 4 months in these 4 days we have as a holiday... woooh... good times! (honestly i love the excuse to do absolutely nothing!)

Aha... 1) you in no way resemble a potato, and 2) If I were your type, I might jet over to Taipei, just to see your orchids, of course. Tell Jeffrey he'd better treat you right.

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a couple of seemingly endless blooming max's

(i actually got bored and tried crossing these two yesterday... have to wait and see what happens... and yes, that is a scale infestation that i am fighting with right now!)

now it's just a mixed bag of others...

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a couple of spiranthes... not easy to photograph, especially with a phone!

and last up is just a pic of one of my crazy planting adventures that always seem to happen when im drunk... this used to be full of gingers but i yanked them out and created a layer of tree fern fiber, stuck a few of my bulbos on top as well as moving my vanilla on over, the bulbos love it, havent flowered yet but been growing like crazy since last summer... the vanilla has only been there for about a month but doesnt seem to mind the move at all...

so there ya have it, the state of my balcony today...

[angela]

Lovely Collection Shane. Must be quite an eyeful when seen all together.

Deal with that scale as a matter of urgency.

[jai_star]

love it ! Taiwan must me a good region to gorw orchids outdoors

[smurphr]

love it ! Taiwan must me a good region to gorw orchids outdoors

it is indeed! one of the primary reasons for me never wanting to leave here... oh and i guess jeffrey, too.... nah it's really the orchids that keep me here!! (just joking)
...and not to rub it in... but all my phals, except for the yellow harlequin type, are from the garbage! just find them on the side of the streets once theyve been thrown out after shop openings and celebrations... i hardly ever buy a phal unless it's species or something unusual that i just ant to have