So I've got this plan that my next orchid purchases will be properly identified orchids... except those NOID's in the supermarket keep jumping in to my basket... it's not my fault really it isn't
So I went grocery shopping with Hubby last night and the shop usually has 3-4 overpriced NOIDS at a time. But this time it had three large, double height, double sideded movable shelf units FULL of Phals
right in the doorway, AND they were all marked as half price
including an outer ceramic pot (as well as an inner clear plastic pot.)
Of course seeing as they were half the price this shop usually charges, I had to get two, well didn't I.
Hubby smilled indulgently and said I could have them under his new plan to buy me orchids rather than cut flowers.
So the first one is a deep velvety purple, a really rich and deep colour. I could not really capture it right in these
The real colour is like this, but MORE... more purple, more rich, more deep, more velvety.
The other is the colours I've wanted for a while. My cousin got married arround 10 years ago and it's only when I've looked back at the photos in the last few months that I noticed her bouquet was of Phal flowers, as were the flowers on the cake (I didn't know orchids from daisies in those days). Well I've been looking for similar colour flowers since then and when we were in the shop last night I described to Hubby what I was looking for... and he said 'you mean like this one'.
It's great at home just now, because I have these two, two other Phals which are reblooming and a Miltoniopsis in bloom
Those NOID Phals at the Supermarket followed me home again!
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