Monday, June 01, 2009

Lots of flowers when I returned I was away for one month and when I came back there were so many flowers that I did not even have to set up anything special to take the pictures:        Above left: Cattleya Gaskelliana semi-alba. Right: A nice Cattleya Gaskelliana corelua and if you like it, imagine (next picture) the plant had....     28 flowers total! I guess my fertilizer is working. Right above a Schomburgkia Thomsoniana from Cayman Brac.     On the left above my best Laelia Pupurata Werkhauseri. On the right Cattleya Intermedia Coerulea     Left: Blc. Morning Glory x Cattleya Intermedia. Right: Some hybrid    Left: Lc. Tokyo Magic Right: Masdevalia hybrid 9:05:55 PM    comment []

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Pictures from Fundaorquidea show as I go away on vacation   These are pictures from the Fundaorquidea show. I set up my plants with Pablo Figueredo from Fundacion Plantchart. I can´t find the picture of the set up.     Left: Cattleya Gaskelliana                                                  Right: Cattleya Jenmanii    Left: Cattleya Leopoldii                                                          Cattleya Lueddemanniana       My two Masdevalias, both won, nobody else had any       Left: Miltonia, Right: Cattleya Mossiae       Left: A spectacular Cattleya schilleriana                                    Odontoglossum      Phrgmipedium                                                                    Cat. Aclandiae x Cattleya Schilleriana      The two stars of the show, the Michelena's Shombrugkia and the Cattleya Violacea alba 2:15:46 PM    comment []

Friday, April 10, 2009

Nice hybrid Phal and four species   Nice flowering hybryd Phalenopsis     On the left a Cattleya Jenmanii coerulea from Venezuela and on the right a nice Lueddemanniana, also from Venezuela     On the left a nice Brazilian Cattleya Aclandiae. On the right, a Brazilian Cattleya Warnerii concolor 7:34:02 PM    comment []

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Last week was indeed a great week I did have a great week last week, not only because my blogging seemed to catch some attention (too much for my own taste), but because on the weekend I took some of my orchid plants to the Exhibit of Natural Science Society at the Transport Museum, where my plants won three first prizes and two third prizes. Prizes are given for each type of orchid and then a prize is given for the best group orchid. One of my plants won best type, best in group, but more importantly it won the prize for the best cultivated plant of the exhibit (I do have a hand in that!). Here is the picture, it is not the best (taken with phone), but you can see it up close in this link (bottom pictures): 9:25:17 PM    comment []

Saturday, March 28, 2009

A nice combination of things       Above and below on the left a nice Dendrobium Speciosum. I ahve had this plant 12 years, this is the first time it flowers.    On the right Dendrobium Tye Die    On the left Dendrobium Pa´u´Ala, on the right Dendrobium Banana Royal     Brassavola Glauca on both sides    Two Cattleya Luddemanniana    On the left Masdevalia hybrid. On the right Maxillaria Variabilis,var. Negricensis    1:32:00 PM    comment []

Sunday, March 08, 2009

My new fertilizer regime is paying off, on March 15th. it will be the one year anniversary of my new program using Peters Excel CAl Mag and it works!     Cattleyas Lueddemanniana are blooming all over the place, the one on the right is Mariauxi x San Ignacio       On the left another Lueddemanniana on the right a Cattleya Walkeriana       On the left a Cattleya Luteola, on the right Cattleya Loddigessi       On the left a first flowering of a Cattleya Amethystoglossa from Brazil, on the right a first flowering of a Venezuelan Cattleya Lawrenceana coerulea       On the left a spectacular Epicattleya Rene Marquis, love the contrast. On the left a Blc. Copper Queen. 10:43:49 PM    comment []

Flowering picking up!    Cattleya Lueddemanniana alba, firts flowering, quite stunning. On the right a single flower up close     Cattleya Loddigessi Tony Boss, one of the best of that species    On the left a Pleurothallis (dont know the anme) On the right an Australian Dendrobium Stunning, stunning indeed     Dendrobium Pixie Princess 8:58:45 PM    comment []

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Lots of species, one borrowed     Sophronitis Coccinea Aurea on the left, this plant flowered three times in 2008. On the right, Pablo Figueredo sent this Shomburgkia Undulata Marisabel de Las Casas.     Had troubles getting this Comparettia Falcata all in focus.     On the left a close up of Dendrochilum Glumaceum. On the right Cattleya Lueddemanniana Maruja x Pto. Cruz     This is the first flowering of this Cattleya Jenmanii Gerd x Claudia. Coerulea Jenmanii tend to have a horrible shape, but this one is not so bad.     Two Cattleya Walkeriana. The Corulea on the right is called Manhattan Blue, it is not great, but the plant grows a lot, this was part of six flowers the plant had this time around. 1:00:25 AM    comment []

Monday, December 15, 2008

Nice Flowers!         My Oncidium Onustum, now known as Zelenkoa Onusta bloomed spectacularly this year as you can see.     On the left a Dendrobium hybrid, no idea what the name is. On the right a dirt orchid from Venezuela Sobralia Leocxantha. (I think)     On the left a close up of a Sobralia flower, looks like a Cattleya, except that it lasts 24 hours.     A very nice Cattleya Walkeriana tipo from Brazil, this is the one with the largest contrast I have between the lip and the sepals. On the right a Picta. 11:38:30 PM    comment []

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Lots of flowers!!! A first flowering of a nice Cattleya Walkeriana, a Brazilian species Lots of flowers from my awarded Cattleya Jenmanii Gran Sabana x Rubra which I bought from Xavier Caballero    Close ups of the flowers above     I may not have hybrids, but once in a while I succumb, like this Epicattleya May Day (??)     Unidentified Bulbophyllum and a close up    Nice Cattleya Alba, no clue what it is     . On the left my second plant of Coccinea Aurea has flowered for the first time, proving is no fluke that they grow well here in Caracas (Not as nice as the other one). On the right a Cattleya Gaskelliana. 9:44:52 PM    comment []