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View Poll Results: Do you ever buy orchid for their foliage?

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  • Buy orchids for their foliage?! Are you NUTS?!?!?

    33 21.85%

  • Yes, but only jewel orchids.

    7 4.64%

  • Not very often but once in a while I do.

    67 44.37%

  • Well, yes. Doesn't everybody?

    44 29.14%
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  1. March 16th, 2014, 02:30 PM #1
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    Hang in there. Blooms will come. Giving enough light?
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  2. February 22nd, 2017, 06:30 AM #2
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    Phalaenopsis schilleriana and stuartiana are good candidates!
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  3. February 23rd, 2017, 03:27 AM #3
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    Phal. Wiganiae, Phal. Hilo Lip, Phal. stuartiana.
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  4. February 24th, 2017, 04:48 AM #4
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    Phal phillippensis, lindleyi are also beautiful.
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  5. July 21st, 2017, 01:26 PM #5
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    I bought a Paph delenatii, var Dunkel this spring just for the foliage. Who cares about the flower?
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  6. July 21st, 2017, 02:07 PM #6
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    The British Paph Society had competitive classes at the show table at all their meetings, when I was a member, some years ago ; and one class was for best foliage. Some of the marbled or mottled leaves paphs are really wonderful. Flowers were considered a disadvantage in that class.
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  7. July 21st, 2017, 03:07 PM #7
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    Oeceoclades spathulifera. Neat little terrestrial from Madagascar.

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  8. July 23rd, 2017, 08:18 PM #8
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    Very interesting pattern. Good one Chris
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