My First Rebloom . . . and the infamous law firm botanical garden - Orchid Board

Lilavati · #1 11-24-2008, 09:43 PM

This is my first rebloom! Well, technically its the second bud of the first rebloom.

The orchid is Cochleanthes Amazing.

I apologize for the quality of the pics . . . my office is a horrible place to take pictures, and I need a macro attachment badly.

And this is my office . . . otherwise known as the Botanical Garden

The first of my Paph. reblooms should be read for pictures soon . . you can sort of see it in office picture . . .dark red, in the corner, in bud.

priz_m · #2 11-25-2008, 12:48 PM

Nice! i wish my office would allow me at least one orchid...

Lilavati · #3 11-25-2008, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by priz_m

Nice! i wish my office would allow me at least one orchid...

Well, they just kept "appearing" until no one was really in a position to complain . . . I mean, after all, they're so pretty!

priz_m · #4 11-25-2008, 01:34 PM

an undeniable truth, no one in their right mind would argue with something so pretty

cb977 · #5 11-25-2008, 02:28 PM

Way cool! if you have to go to work everyday, it might as well be a lovely place to be!

betoguerrero · #6 11-25-2008, 03:00 PM

Nice CHIDS !!!!

camille1585 · #7 11-25-2008, 03:02 PM

Your office must feel so friendly with all those orchids!

And they seem to like it there. I don't know why a company would not allow orchids. If you have orchids with you, you are happier, and if you are happier you work better. It's in the company's best interest to allow orchids!

Lilavati · #8 11-25-2008, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by camille1585

Your office must feel so friendly with all those orchids!

And they seem to like it there. I don't know why a company would not allow orchids. If you have orchids with you, you are happier, and if you are happier you work better. It's in the company's best interest to allow orchids!

Well, the firm that hired me allowed plants in the offices . . .the firm we merged with did not "to protect the carpets" appearently. When the merger happened, the plant lovers won, on pretty much those grounds . . . plants make people happy, and happy people work harder, and besides, its a "green" building and the plants filter the air. But a lot of places these days are, um, controlling, I guess you would say. I know of another law firm that has banned pretty much anything from the staff's desks (I'm assuming they didn't dare do that do the attorneys.) Sounds gloomy to me.

dgenovese1 · #9 11-26-2008, 12:31 AM

Lilavati,

They are all beautiful...and congrats on your first re-bloom!

Thanks for sharing with us.

Lilavati · #10 11-26-2008, 08:28 AM

[quote=camille1585;169180] And they seem to like it there. /QUOTE]

I should note, for people even less experienced than I am, that "liking it there" is something of a trick. Other than the big Phal Kaledescope in the background (which really DOES seem to love it there) which has not stopped blooming and putting off basal keikis since April, the orchids are temporary vistors. What you are looking at is the "second batch" -this year's purchases, which where picked up in bud or in spike earlier (the exception being the Cochlanthes and the vinicolor Paph) bloomed at my house under lights, on the porch, or in south windows, and brought in. That window faces north into a wall. Its a BIG window, and I'm pretty high up, and those are compact flourescents and T5s scattered around, but that is not the permanent home of the orchids, or the African Violets for that matter . . . only the Rex Begonias, in the left of the picture are permanent residents, and they are pretty patient with dimmness. My office is a display, not a greenhouse! Although they do fine there when blooming, I really, really doubt if they'd do well there all the time (except for that Kaldescope, which seems so happy I might just repot it in the Spring and bring it back) there's not enough light, and I have exactly ZERO control over the temperature. With last year's batch reblooming, those will be rotated in as the ones there are rotated out as they stop blooming. And in the summer its mostly African Violets and bare wood, because most of the orchids summer outdoors. So, basically, its an illusion . . . and I didn't bloom most of those either . . at best I coaxed them from a tiny spike.

So I love it, its pretty, they are alive and healthy, but that's not their home and am not really responsible for the flowers!