Beautiful! I'd love to grow a couple here!

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I hope they do well Geoff! I'm sure Joyce will be happy with your decision

Quote Originally Posted by Dorsetman View Post
Heat tolerant plants are only of academic interest to me, here in England ( having our wettest winter ever, btw... fed up of getting e-mails from both my walking clubs saying “walk cancelled, stream crossing now impassable” or “ ground too flooded” etc...) my orchids were sadly neglected in 2019 : my dear late wife was ill most of the year, and had first call on my time.
But my cymbidiums came through with flying colours , apRt from many spikes being rather deformed because they were never staked. The best, might just do rather well at my two Orchid Society local shows , at the end of this month and early next - cym Dorothy Stockstill, a devonianianum hybrid with pendant dark flowered spikes - eight spikes... all this due to them having been on an automatic watering system for the last two years. Gardena micro-drip, so that they continued to get watered every 3 days, when nothing else did, as long as I topped the feed t@nk occasionally - which I mostly did. I shan’t have much else for the shows I fear, but that should be a good one.
Have been thinking I might set up a purely cymbidium greenhouse now - Joyce would have said “ haven’t you got enough greenhouse space ?” . But she is not here now, and her last words to me were “ don’t grieve, I want you to be happy..” so maybe I willl.