I mostly go for the more unusual orchids, namely those not typically found at your local supermarket or home improvement store. I love cattleyas! Here's a list of what I have:
Blc. Ju Shen "Pink Empress"
Pot. Shinfong Beauty "Tzu Wen Rainbow"
Blc. Mem. Anna Balmores
Blc. Shinfong Luohyang "Golden Tree"
Cattleya NOID (green?)
Blc. Hwa Yuan Grace "Cat King"
Lc. Purple Cascade "Fragrant Beauty"
Lc. Hsinying Excell "NN"
Blc. Pamela Finney "Bigger Ox"
Phalaenopsis NOID (red or pink)
Lc. Taida Swan "Taida"
Big white NOID cattleya
White NOID Dendrobium
White NOID Dendrobium
Purple Encyclia
Pink NOID Phalaenopsis
Pink Mini NOID Phalaenopsis
Purple Dendrobium Species
Oncidium Sharry Baby
Miltonidium Bartley Schwarz "Highlander"
Angraecum Veitchii "M"
Oncidium Wildcat(?)
Lady Slipper Orchid Yellow Species
Oncidium Lanceanum Species
Those marked with a question mark are ones that I'm unsure about either color or name. I'm already panicking at how much money I've spent on my orchids. I've spent $700
alone on the plants alone, not to mention the bags of orchid bark and fertilizer. I developed an interest in orchids just this year! I had recently decreased my collection of 39 plants down to 26. Sorry if you had to read my long rant.
A little about me:
I've always been into gardening and had on and off relationships with orchids until the beginning of this year. The first orchid that compelled me to actively pursue my interest in orchid gardening was actually my grandma's NOID cattleya. I began on a quest to identify such an exotic plant and was finally able to ID it at a local nursery at the end of January of this year. I had stumbled upon the nursery when I impulsively decided to search the term "Del Mar orchids" and happened upon an orchid nursery a little over a mile away from my house. It was there that I bought my first cattleya: a Blc. Pink Empress. I have been expanding my orchid collection ever since. Although I have been taking care of orchids for only half a year, I feel that I have already gained so much experience. I hope that everyone has as much talent as I did with orchids. They are very rewarding.
Hybrid Mode
