Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Phalaenopsis Jiuhbao Fairy, in the 2015 Puerto Rico orchid society show
I saw this Phalaenopsis at the 2015 Puerto Rico orchid society show. I liked the patterns on the flowers and the color, but what really impressed me was that the flowers were fairly large and the shape was wonderful.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Phalaenopsis the Pride of Ben Yu, at the 2015 Puerto Rico Orchid Society show
A beautiful Phalaenopsis hybrid, seen at the 2015 Puerto Rico Orchid Society show.
Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Adzuki Bean 'KHM 2265'
I saw this Phalaenopsis hybrid in a card table in the 2015 Puerto Rico orchid society show at el Jardin Botanico de Rio Piedras. A beautiful and impressive plant.
Grammatoheadia Boynton Leopard, blooming in 2015 with a large inflorescence
Some years ago I brought three seedlings of this orchid
because I was intrigued by this cross, which is of genera that are pretty
different, Grammatophyllum elegans
and Bromheadia findlaysoniana. The plants grew well, but they took their
time blooming. Last year two of the
plants bloomed and I found that they hardly showed any of the traits of Bromheadia. Nevertheless they are quite pretty and I
like them.
One of the plants didn’t bloom last year. I wondered what was wrong with it since it is
getting exactly the same care and environmental conditions as the other two
ones. It seems it only needed a little
bit more time. This year this plant
bloomed and produced a very large inflorescence in comparison with the size of
its pseudobulbs. It is comparable to the
inflorescence of a full grown Gramm. elegans
in size, the flowers however are smaller than that of my plant of Gramm. elegans.
This year I have the fortune of having both the Grammatoheadia and Grammatophyllum elegans in bloom at the same time so that I will be
able to compare the flowers directly and see the similarities and differences
between the parent and the hybrid.
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