Randomness with Buddy and Suezzee

Apr. 8, 2016: It’s not very often we get plants from Kalapana Tropicals. They have great plants but the timing when our local buying group seems to come up with enough to send an order is typically bad for us. A shipment of plants for Telly’s came in and Larry couldn’t resist picking up an Oprah Winfrey.

Blc. Oprah Winfrey

(picture from Internet) We were drawn to the plant primarily because of…

More Enc. tampensis before we move

Apr. 8, 2016: We’re moving from Ferndale to our forever home in Ortonville/Groveland Township very soon. One place we’ll definitely miss living near to when we move further north is Young’s Garden Mart in Warren. Larry dropped by there this week and picked up another one of the Encyclia tampensis plants from there (and a few other non-orchid plants).

E. tampensis

Here’s an old picture of Larry…

Apr. 1 , 2016: Telly’s got more Phal. Oxen in stock! It’s amazing to see how different some of the same hybrids could look. These Phal. Ox Prince look similar enough to prove they’re the same hybrid yet each definitely have their own unique charm. We love them!

Phal. Ox Prince ‘OX-1480’

Phal. Ox Prince ‘OX-1482’

Here’s a picture of these two Phal. Ox Prince with the Phal. Ox Spot Queen we got…

Mar. 30, 2016: The obsession with polka-dotted Cattleyas continue with some of Fred Clarke’s (Sunset Valley Orchids) new hybrids.

C. Leoloddiglossa f. coerulea (C. Loddiglossa f. coerulea ‘Blue Sky’ x C. leopoldii f. coerulea ‘Kathleen’ JC/AOS)

(picture from SVO website) Blue spots!

C. Leoloddiglossa f. coerulea ‘SVO’  x C. bicolor f. coerulea ‘SVO Blue’

(picture from SVO website) One parent…

Remembering Memoria Jim Asher

Feb. 28, 2016: We’re not exactly sure how me missed creating a post about our Paph. Mem. Jim Asher. It’s blooming right now and I was going to post an update on it to document how the flower looks. Surprise, surprise! There’s no post about it. Digging through our emails, it looks like this plant came in from Lehua Orchids along with some plants that came for Telly’s. I’ll blame Leap Day for this…

Mar. 22, 2016: We’ve always wondered what’s up with all these orchids with what seemed like un-creative names. And then we found out it’s the way they registered orchid hybrids in Taiwan–the greenhouse/nursery put their name into the hybrid name! We discovered we are really loving the hybrids from Ox Orchid Farm. We picked up this one from Telly’s. Gotta have ’em all!

Phal. OX Golden Apple…

Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show 2016

Mar. 20, 2016: Despite the very busy weekend, we just had to squeeze in some time for the Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show. We also kinda promised Alex (Ann Arbor) we would give them a hand tearing down the show. While milling around the vendor area, we chitchatted with Jack (Saginaw Valley) and told him how we’re so excited that one of our wacky Oncidiums from Windswept In Time was in spike (Oncidi…

Mar. 20, 2016: One thing we enjoy about collecting anything is swapping or trading with other fellow collectors. One of the new Michigan Orchid Society members Jessica had some divisions of her beautiful Cattleya plants available and was willing to swap with us. We’re so excited! THANKS, JESSICA! We hope you enjoy the plants we gave you, too!

C. Portia ‘Sir Jeremiah Coleman’

(picture from…

Leo’s ever-blooming orchid collection

Mar. 19, 2016: It’s the March meeting for the Greater Lansing Orchid Society and the speaker is Leo Schordje.  He gave a very interesting talk on having an ever-blooming orchid collection. He solved the mystery of why most of our plants bloom from January to around April and nothing for the rest of the year. January to April happens to be orchid show season for us! And it’s during those months…

Our very own Waling-waling!

Mar. 18, 2016: Larry volunteered to help out Ron of Taylor Orchids to setup at the Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show and Sale that’s happening this weekend. I guess what they say about helping set up orchid shows and getting unique opportunities to buy some rare and amazing plants is so true. Larry spotted some beautiful Vandas at Natt’s Orchids but they were presold to our fellow Greater Lansing…

Mar. 17, 2016: Just another day at Telly’s for Larry. Starts with a picture:

And the plant comes home! Such a cute little Cattleya.

C. Dream Catcher x C. loddigesii

Mar. 14, 2016: It’s been a while since we took in any rescue plants due to our extremely limited space at home but Larry couldn’t pass up this particular one from Telly’s. It’s one of those “big lip” Phals! We’re hoping we can revive it. The flowers are still absolutely stunning but the plant hardly have any roots left.

Phal. Ox Sunkist

We’ve always been fascinated by these “big lip” Phals but…

A beautiful night of harlequin Phals

Mar. 12, 2016: The Saginaw Valley Orchid Society March meeting had Tom Harper of Stone River Orchids give an extremely entertaining and educational talk on harlequin Phals. He brought a lot of absolutely stunning plants to sell, too. We wish we could’ve brought home every one of them!

Phal. OX Spot Queen ‘OX1460’ AM/AOS

This was Larry’s first pick. The flowers are incredibly striking. After…

Floralia Orquideas: Orchids from Brazil

Mar. 10, 2016: Back in January, our local orchid buying group got wind of Floralia Orquideas in Brazil and their 2016 price list was a veritable wishlist for a lot of us (THANKS DOT!). Our group’s order came in and we’re so excited to get some very interesting plants we’ve never seen/heard about before.

B. ceboletta

(picture from Internet) Very unusual-looking plant with simple, green flowers.…

Greater Lansing Orchid Society Show and Sale 2016

Feb. 26-28, 2016: The last weekend of February every year is always the Greater Lansing Orchid Society Show and Sale at the MSU Plant and Soil Science Conservatory. This year was extra special since we got our very first AOS award with our Bc. Glorious May ‘Buddy Love’ HCC/AOS (see the plant here). It also got a first/blue ribbon for its class. We also got a whole bunch of ribbons for the plants…

Feb. 6, 2016: Back in 2/6/2016 we dropped by Taylor Orchids to visit Ron. The weather was unusually mild and it was a great way to spend an amazing day. Unfortunately, the Monday after this weekend was the day that kidney stones hit me. It hit me so hard that my life and work got a little backed up and its only now that I’m able to update our blog.

During this visit these were the plants we took…

Jan. 29, 2016: It is no secret that Larry likes polka-dots on orchid flowers so when this plant showed up at Telly’s, we didn’t even hesitate to get it.

Blc. Glorious May

The plant is from Better Gro and the flowers are absolutely beautiful!

Spathoglottis plicata v moonlit grape

Along with the Blc, this also came in and I couldn’t resist adding it to our growing Spathoglottis collection.

Ludisi…