Joan, I don't know what part of NY you live in, but if your weather was anything like it was in Jersey this summer, your summering outdoors orchids might have gotten over watered, like mine. I only I watered my garden once or twice this summer. I was a dumb bumpkin and when I watered the window boxes of root bound annuals I watered the chids. too. I set a few of my plants back through overcare.