C. Bernadine Kennedy ‘white jewel’

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I grow about 30 or so hybrid cattleyas in marginal-for-cattleyas growing conditions. Most of them are easily-available ‘old favourites’. I grow them outside or in a semi-open shadehouse. They struggle through winter, looking pretty battered by the end of it but recover well in spring and summer. Unfortunately our summers are never long enough from a cattleya’s point of view.

Out of these there are about three standouts in terms of being hardy, tolerant and reliable bloomers. This is one of them C. Bernadine Kennedy ‘white jewel’. Another bonus is it flowers here in mid-summer.

Worth considering if you don’t have the luxury of growing in Florida conditions.