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)

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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

[k_andreev]

All are beautiful Shane

[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

[Katherine]

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

Now that makes me seriously jealous! You can throw any cast offs my way, anytime!

[catttan]

Your balcony looks great Shane. Just wonder if it can take the weight of all those plants.BTW i like that yellow harlequin phal.