Oncidium Twinkle ‘Fragrant Fantasy...
Oncidium Twinkle is one of the greatest miniature Oncidiums of all time. Easy to grow, compact growth, profuse flowering, relatively disease free, and in a range of colours. It is also in my mind one of the most frustrating Oncidiums of all time. Pretty much all cultivars of Twinkle start forming flower spikes in January, which sit there for a whole 5 to 6 months promising you what a wonderful flower display they’ll put on, but not opening until the middle of June and into July or even August. You need a pinch of patience to watch Twinkle go from spiking to...
Oncidium Sharry Baby ‘Sweet Fragra...
The mighty Sharry Baby, also known as the Chocolate Orchid because of it’s fragrance. Although I still meet people who think orchids don’t have fragrances! This to me was the Oncidium of the late 80’s and all of the 90’s and still extremely popular today just because it smells like chocolate. The fragrance can become quite overpowering in a small space, even in the wide open spaces of a greenhouse you can be overcome by the fragrance. It’s an easy grower and will quickly become a large plant that fills a 250mm pot. The spikes are tall and...
Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’
Big, small, I love them all. Today small is cute and makes a great windowsill or tabletop display in the form of Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’ growing nicely in an 80mm pot. As you can see from the photos that’s not a big pot, but boy is it putting on a display. Now just a quick pointer for anyone that has purchased one of our 80mm Alosuka’s, it will most likely grow for another 12 months in that pot before it needs potting up. One of the hardest things to learn about growing your orchids is when not to over pot them.
Oncidium Sweet Ears ‘Pacific Gold&...
One of the amusing things about Oncidium intergeneric orchids is that some come with unusual foliage colours, which throws people who expect just green foliage on their orchids. You can get every shade of green from lime through to the really dark greens, then you get mottled foliage, red foliage, yellow foliage (not a nutrient deficiency), variegated foliage and even purple. One of the red foliaged orchids is Oncidium Sweet Ears ‘Pacific Gold’, but that all depends on how you grow it. As you can see from the photos I have three plants of Sweet Ears all...