So I went with my mother to the local orchid grower here in the Denver metro area, Fantasy Orchids in louisville, CO. Of course I bought her a really nice orchid for Mother's Day, Bllra. tohoma glacier.
I'm a nice son!
But she also bought for herself three other orchids. Brassavola little stars, Dendrobium aggregatum and on my advice a Phal. stuartiana. She just loved the leaves on that wee, little plant.
I had shown her my mounted Brassavola cordata and she thought it was really great. So she wanted to try it out. For years now she has had this wonderful piece of hardwood/root my late, older brother had found out in the Arizona desert. My mother was using it for a piece of wall art. It's a really nice piece. So she got the idea that mounting an orchid to it would be perfect. My artsy brother would have loved that idea. So after we got back from Fantasy, she grabbed the wood off it's nail on the wall and cleaned the dust off. I prepped her Brassavola little stars to mount. It was a perfect fit and an excelent candidate to mount. It has all sorts of new root growth on it and it seemed to form right to the wood like it was suppose to be there.
She liked that so much she then wanted me to mount her Dendro. aggregatum as well. She said she saw many examples of that same plant mounted to a back wall inside the greenhouse!
She was right. I was amazed to see all sorts of Dendrobiums mounted and growing on the painted siding of an interior wall of the greenhouse. It was really cool!
So I found another piece of wood she had been saving for some reason and drilled a couple holes in it and in no time I had mounted her Dendro to it as well.
Not bad for my 2nd and 3rd attempts at mounting orchids I thought.
But what do you all think?
Two new mounts today, but they're not mine!
Those chids should do well mounted. What a lucky Mom to have you ready and willing to go chidding with her and do the mounting too. I can see many more mounts living with your Mom. 
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