Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' - yet another one from Tatton Park - Orchid Board

RosieC · #1 06-06-2010, 05:50 PM

This was yet another orchid from my wish list. I did quite well at getting wishlist orchids from the Tatton Park Show, infact I think there was only one complete impulse buy out of eight.

This is so pretty

and the fragrance... wow! At the show Nicky told me it had a wonderful fragrance and someone else was saying 'wow what a fragrance' but I could only just detect a very faint sweetness. I couldn't detect anything last night and then this morning it was just very feint again. Then I got home at lunchtime and opened my living room door and the sweet scent just hit me. I really like it because it is not too sickly sweet, just a pleasent sweet scent arround miday and through the afternoon.

It has some massive p-bulbs and 4 new growths ranging from quite large to only just started.

It also has something which may be a new spike but I'm not at all sure. It looks like a spike but is about the same height as the others with no sign of buds forming

One of the new growths

Call_Me_Bob · #2 06-06-2010, 10:02 PM

nice!! do they really smell like chocolate? i saw one at the garden center that smelled really sweet and looked like this, but the tag said something different

jrodpad · #3 06-06-2010, 10:14 PM

Wow, they're gorgeous. I'll keep my fingers crossed and if it's a new spike you'll have to post pics when it blooms.

- J

camille1585 · #4 06-06-2010, 10:25 PM

me wants it! lol Sharry baby is high on my wishlist, and now after your description of it and photos Iwant it even more!
It's a really large healthy plant, great pick! Who's the vendor?

WhiteRabbit · #5 06-06-2010, 10:36 PM

nice Rosie! I got one of these last year - they do get quite large! It is a wonderful fragrance, isn't it? I found mine at a store n the middle of a bunch of other orchids - my nose led me to it

RosieC · #6 06-07-2010, 03:23 AM

Thanks everyone.

I'm not sure about choclately on the fragrance. I would describe this one as a sweet sugary smell.

Camille, I got this from David Stead Orchids who are somewhere in the UK. They do have a website which I have bought from before.

No fragrance just now, and I guess I will miss it during the day when I'm at the office, maybe I'll have to find an excuse to nip home during the day

Lagoon · #7 06-07-2010, 07:48 AM

Rosie, I think you added a great one to you're list. Beautiful sharry you've picked up

These are fast growers that love their water and lots of light.

Right now mine has, 4 new growths, 4 loooong spikes. It took about a week before the intense scent of chocolate would appear, before that - a sweet sugar scent filled the room.

Enjoy you're new orchid