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Vanilla planifolia – January 2015

Sometimes I really wonder how I get talked into doing things!  Anyway one of my really nice clients who run a retail nursery asked me to grow a Vanilla Orchid for them so that I could share my experiences, and I suppose curiosity got the better of me.  So after having the orchid sitting down in the propagation house for a few months, which it took as an opportunity to really grow, I finally mounted it onto a hardwood post.  Now I was scratching my head as to where to put it so that it could really grow well and I came up with the southern wall of my covered greenhouse,...
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Bulbophyllum tingabarinum ‘Sunset&...

One of the great things about orchids is that there are so many types, with varying flowers, colours, growth habits and sizes.  Now although this website is more for what we have in production, I have added this miscellaneous category to put in posts on various orchids that I see in my travels.  Some are strange, some odd, some only their mother would love, but they all belong to this wonderful world of orchids that I hope you enjoy and find fascinating.  Now on my recent travels to Hawaii I visited the Hilo Orchid Show where orchids were displayed in all their glory. ...
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