Orchid Species in coastal California

[Roberta]

Check out the species blooms (mine and those of others in my general area) Southern California Orchid Species for June

This will be the last of this blog, I need to spend time updating my own website. Likely, I'll start a "currently blooming" page there, but it just needs a whole lot of refreshing, has been badly neglected.

[DeaC]

Splendid. Take your time updating...you've given me plenty to admire for a long time.

[Diane56Victor]

You have a wonderful collection, I've never heard of some of them!
Your Cleisocentron is the most true blue I've seen in an orchid.

[Roberta]

Thanks! Yes, Cleisocentrons are some of the very few truly blue orchids. (The particular one shown this month isn't mine but I have some that have bloomed at other times) The color is more intense in cooler weather, and some cultivars are darker than others. There are a few truly blue Dendrobiums (like parvulum), Thelymitras of course. But most of what is called "blue" is blue-violet (coerulea).