Outdoor orchid "garden"

[Uletbulu]

Originally Posted by JKeys

Very nice set up! Just wondering, if you dont mind, but where did you find those big driftwood pieces? I've been looking for something like that for a while.

Well not sure about the US, these arent driftwood, but they are tea tree wood. We have tea plantations here that sell their dead trees as decorative material

[Island Girl]

Wow! Beautiful plants!! And I love the racks you've made out of the reclaimed wood!! I would love to do this in my yard, if u don't mind me basically copying your fabulous idea?! I love how the plants/& pots r hanging by zip-ties, that's just perfect. Your bulbos r beautiful, btw... Well, all your orchids are for that matter!

[Uletbulu]

Originally Posted by Island Girl

Wow! Beautiful plants!! And I love the racks you've made out of the reclaimed wood!! I would love to do this in my yard, if u don't mind me basically copying your fabulous idea?! I love how the plants/& pots r hanging by zip-ties, that's just perfect. Your bulbos r beautiful, btw... Well, all your orchids are for that matter!

Thanks for the kind words and you are more than welcomed to copy it

[Uletbulu]

well thought I would update whats going on in the back,
I got 5 no ID bulbos, wonder what they are.

Bulbo Dearii is still blooming and another noID bulbo is spiking, anyone want to take a wild guess ?


Not much happening in the phal corner, but since I housed my Seidenfadenia Mitratha there, I thought I would include it here as well.

This corner of the garden also house the pahps, paph Glaucophyllum is blooming. 3 NoID paphs are budding as well as the paph Superbiens.

[Island Girl]

Beautiful! I love that Bulbo dearii, I don't think I've ever seen this species before. I have to ask, is that a tea bag above your mounts? (I know ppl hang bags of Fert above their mounts, but this looks like a regular tea bag? Lol) The Seidenfadenia Mitratha... Can't pronounce it, but I love it!! I've never seen or heard of this one either. It's just marvelous! Your Paphs are beautiful as well! Just love the leaves on those...

Thank you for introducing me to a couple orchids I might have never heard of otherwise.

[HighSeas]

How beautiful! I love how creative you got with your garden too! Your plants look SO nice! I love the look of wood with my orchids....now every time I go out on the boat, I'm always on the lookout for driftwood! I've pulled a few large pieces out but I just don't know that you can ever have enough! Lovely displays! Thanks for sharing!

[Uletbulu]

Island Girl, that teabag is actually a slow release organic pellet ferts, supposedly helps with flowering, dont know if its effective, but many local orchid farmer swore by it.

HighSeas, no...unfortunately cant get enough orchids....There's a local orchid fest going on and I added some 30+ new species to my collection.

[Uletbulu]

I am not sure if I am allowed to do this, but this thread seems to turn into some sorta journal. please kindly let me know if its not allowed

Theres an orchid show in town, and I went a little overboard with my purchases.

The bulbophyllum species exploded, started with 7, now I have 30....all within a month.
Bulbo Lemniscatum is blooming....I gotta say this is the most unspectacular bloom I have ever seen. 6 spikes total.
The Unknown bulbo from the mollucas island is also spiking, me thinks its bulbo nymphopolitanum.

Next is the Coelogyne stand, it also keeps my Angraecum Veitchii, Stanhopea Tigrina and Gongora Gaellata. The season for many coelogynes are coming (around july or august here).
The only one in spike is Coelogyne Celebensis.

Not much in the maxillaria dept but thought I would put it on as well. Not much access to this genus locally, I would love to get my hands on Maxi Schunkeana and Speciosa.

The dendrobium rack is quite colorful at the moment.
Capra,Bifalce, Cruentum, Hiroshi Tokunaga and Sonia are in spike.
Callophylum, Stratiotes, Antenatum, and Draconis are blooming.

[GardenTheater]

That's spectacular. Great grow area!

[Myrle Diefendorf]

This epidendrum Green Hornet grows in a slatted basket on my back porch. It was a Lowe's Baggie a year ago EPLC Jackie Bright.Serena's Tinkerbelle