Mini slice of the tropics. Orchids in bloom!

[opaline]

Thanks for the award Mojamoja!!!!Im going to print and frame it lol!

Thanks Yew for the compliment, glad to here someone more experienced gets a challenge by those ailing oncids. Hope it works for you.

[cdayinflorida]

Matt, you do have a virtual little jungle going on in Bromsgrove. Very interesting! Great growing.

[Zozzl]

That is a great collection! Great growing

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Very nice, Matt! You have so many beautiful orchids!

cheers,
BD

[opaline]

Thanks to Cathy and Pat. Can put faces to names now I have read through your recent shopping spree together.

Thanks to BD. .....a hobby we can never become tired of.

[panam]

Wow, Matt - thanks for showing us your collection. What a nice assortment you have!

[opaline]

Thanks Patty. Its great to share our orchid enthusiam with each other. I do not know anyone personally who likes orchids so its a tad isolated.

[pavel]

And one good thing about my mini rainforest, there are 'no snakes'.

Personally I think a snake or two would add to the beauty and ambiance.

[opaline]

Thanks Pavel for considering the beauty and ambience. lol. But the idea is a big no no no!. The posts on hear are bad enough with their experiences with snakes. BDs most recent was chilling to the bone when it fell out of a Catt pot.

[opaline]

Just an update to show an example of the sunlight @ roughly 6.30 am-7am in the morning till about 1.30 -2pm that my orchids recieve for their wellbeing. East facing with partial south is an ideal location for general orchid growing. After 12noon in the afternoon when the sun is getting at full force only the vanda, papilonanthe?, catts, ctsm, cycno and tillandsia worship this intensity. The phals,paph, dendo, stans and others have had their fix when the sun was weaker earlier on and would suffer gone 12 noon if exposed to the direct rays. Abit of planning goes along way. The 2 pics are the first thing I see when I open my eyes in the morning. Heaven.