Growing outdoors in Miami

[JC Espinosa]

The grow area consists of 20% of our tiny backyard. We are removing nuisance trees, redoing the electric, and relandscaping, so things are all over the place. The front and parts of the backyard look like a combination plant sale and refugee camp.

Here are a few pictures of part of the grow area. I have a few more in the house. I plan to take back another 20% next weekend.


JC in Miami

[tucker85]

Your place looks awesome! All the orchids look happy and healthy.

[Kevin_PR]

AWESOME!!!! Def looks beter than my yard. The plants look so natural there. I love what you did in the second picture, awesome way to display potted plants. I will definitely steal that idea when I get my own house. Thanks for sharing

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Amazing Orchid Garden!!!!

[giuseppeorchids]

amazing! I love your garden! I would also like to grow orchids outdoor, unfortunately I haven't got a garden and here winter is cold but I'm very glad to watch your bueautiful orchids

[brn_thmbs]

Wow!




that's all I got... Just Wow!

[JC Espinosa]

Originally Posted by tucker85

Your place looks awesome! All the orchids look happy and healthy.

Thanks. I have a few on trees including two mule ears I rescued years ago when a lot was being cleared near the Brickell area. They were on a frazzled Live Oak along with an Oncidium in flower (that is what got my attention from the street). I climbed up the tree and grabbed the plants. Whoever lived in the old house put them there. The mule ears sat dejected for years in a too shady part of the yard. I strapped them on a small oak in the yard last year and they have taken off. I had no idea what they were until an orchid-crazed friend IDed it.

[JC Espinosa]

Originally Posted by giuseppeorchids

amazing! I love your garden! I would also like to grow orchids outdoor, unfortunately I haven't got a garden and here winter is cold but I'm very glad to watch your bueautiful orchids

Grazie mille. Mi piacerebbe avere orchidee che crescono nel tempo fresco. Ho cinque in casa.

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Originally Posted by Eskevingo

AWESOME!!!! Def looks beter than my yard. The plants look so natural there. I love what you did in the second picture, awesome way to display potted plants. I will definitely steal that idea when I get my own house. Thanks for sharing

Hay pocos lugares mas bellos que PR, para las personas y las orquideas. Hace mucho tiempo que no visito. Las plantas son caras - compro de varios lugares aqui en Miami como por Internet. Si mi pareja se entera lo que yo "invierto" en mi coleccion me corta los orchis. Yo tambien hago trueques o canje de plantas, bulbos, keikis o pedacitos.

Saludos desde Miami

[Kevin_PR]

Originally Posted by JC Espinosa

Grazie mille. Mi piacerebbe avere orchidee che crescono nel tempo fresco. Ho cinque in casa.

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Si mi pareja se entera lo que yo "invierto" en mi coleccion me corta los orchis.

Ha I think only a fellow orchid lover can understand any kind of justification for spending money on plants. My room mate always makes a comment when I get a new plant "mas orquideas". I'd love to share plants. Right now I have keikis of Den crumenatum, a division of Den faciferum, Onc luridum(another mule ear), Psychillis krugii, Oeceoclades maculata, and top cuttings of Poritis pulcherima. I don't need anything in return(sharing is caring), unless you got a some species I don't that your willing to give a piece of. If your interested send me a PM

[IncurablePlantHead]

Originally Posted by JC Espinosa

Thanks. I have a few on trees including two mule ears I rescued years ago when a lot was being cleared near the Brickell area. They were on a frazzled Live Oak along with an Oncidium in flower (that is what got my attention from the street). I climbed up the tree and grabbed the plants. Whoever lived in the old house put them there. The mule ears sat dejected for years in a too shady part of the yard. I strapped them on a small oak in the yard last year and they have taken off. I had no idea what they were until an orchid-crazed friend IDed it.

Love the Mule Ears, my kind of orchid! Great growing areas and really healthy looking plants. I got a couple of new natives from a guy in the Redlands. I went there to get a rare one first found just a couple of miles from my house, Cyrtopodium polyphilum. I grabbed a tiny Ionopsis just 2 years from the seed. The orchid bug has damaged my brain already.....somebody stop me!