House orchids 2012

[Maren]

Hi, this little charmer surprised me today but alas, he had lost his label in my rather overcrowded tropical greenhouse.
Does anyone know his name?

[Maren]

Not an orchid, just an ordinary New Guinea Busy Lizzie, but such a good companion plant in the tropical orchid house. Here it nestles among the free dangling vanda roots, enjoying the shade and humidity and providing colour all through the year, especially welcome in the winter.

[Tony Willis]

Hi, this little charmer surprised me today but alas, he had lost his label in my rather overcrowded tropical greenhouse.
Does anyone know his name?

Maren cannot help on its name but lovely and interesting to see how they hang their flower spikes down when allowed to grow in a natural manner

[Maren]

Thanks Tony, I agree, they look better when they hang as they do at home (theirs). It's not always possible, though, space constraints etc. Here is a quick peek into my rather untidy greenhouse:

Tolumnia hybrid (used to be equitant oncidium) - I love the colour
Odontoglossum crispum now called Oncidium alexandrae ; the flowers are always a bit untidy but massive and spectacular;
Miltoniopsis Roqueberg.

More later.

[ronm]

Beautiful Maren.
Nuff said.

[sottych]

very beautiful Oncidium color , and Miltoniopsis with spoted (orchidée pensée in France)

[daveyp1970]

i love the waterfall miltonopsis,i chap i used to know in the sheffield orchid society David Binks used to breed them, he named one after his wife Nancy Binks.

[ThomasB]

Maren,

your unknown orchid reminds me of Cuitlauzina but it does not quite look like C. pendula.   

Regards Thomas

[daveyp1970]

Mtdm Bartley Shwarz

[Maren]

Hello ThomasB,

I should have said the flowers are only 1 cm wide, I think that rules out Cuitlauzina. Thanks for the try. I hope someone will come up with the answer.

[Maren]

I wonder if any of you clever people can help me with this problem. The leaves of this Zelenkoa onusta (formerly Oncidium onustum) are covered in lesions. One or two look like blisters. What could it be? and how to treat the plant? obviously the lesions will not repair, but I would like to protect the healthy new growth from this. Any suggestions most welcome.

I have been wondering if it could be sunburn. The plant hangs in the top of my greenhouse with minimal shading, as was suggested by the supplier. I used to run a mister and perhaps droplets formed on the leaves that burnt the leaves when the sun hit them?

[Tony Willis]

This is the first time I have grown a paphiopedilum and so I am pleased to get it to flower. I think it is one of the easier less spectacular ones and has grown okay on a windowsill in my cold kitchen

Paphiopedilum appletonianum

[daveyp1970]

This is the first time I have grown a paphiopedilum and so I am pleased to get it to flower. I think it is one of the easier less spectacular ones and has grown okay on a windowsill in my cold kitchen

Paphiopedilum appletonianum

You are joking,Tony that is superb and interesting to note this was grown in a cold kitchen,i had this paph for about tens years in my intermediate greenhouse i could have saved myself some money,the leaves are pretty special as well.

[Maren]

Davey,

your intermediate greenhouse may have the same temperature as Tony's cold kitchen. You'll only know for sure if you compare maximum and minimum temperatures, and that's only approximate as well because:

• average temperatures determine success,
• extreme temperatures determine failure.

 

[Tony Willis]

A miltonopsis rescued for £5 last year before it went in the skip.