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Old 03-11-2016, 04:50 PM
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Very cool! I really love the idea of attaching orchids and other epiphytes to potted plants. I even created a name for this... "phorobana". Maybe somebody can come up with a better name but, in the meantime, it's better than no name!

I'd really love to go to a show dedicated entirely to phorobana. From my perspective... seeing an orchid growing on a live host is infinitely more interesting than seeing an orchid growing in a pot or on a dead mount. It's incredibly more dynamic. Well... there are a few statues that I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some orchids growing on!

It's mind-boggling to try and imagine all the different possible combinations of orchids and hosts. I think that some of my favorite combinations would probably involve hosts and orchids that bloom at the same time. Here's an example from nature... Oncidium cebolleta. It's a living bouquet! Other really neat phorobana combinations would involve orchids growing on cactus and other succulents.

A phorobana show would be like an orchid show, succulent show and bonsai show combined into one really awesome show!

I really like bonsais but for the longest time they seem.... incomplete. Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without any jelly! Hopefully people will realize, sooner rather than later, that every bonsai needs at least one epiphyte. The challenge will be trying to select the most complementary epiphyte.

I think that in some cases the epiphyte will be selected to try and accentuate the host. And in other cases the host will be chosen to accentuate the epiphyte. The best phorobanas will call to mind the idea of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
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Thanks epiphyte78.
Give me a few days to get some more pics and gather my thoughts.
I plan to open a discussion about my "orchid tree" shortly.


Thanks for sharing the links!
Very nice photo's, and some interesting ideas.

I have 2 more sizable and potted Ficus benjamina, 6 feet each. I've been thinking of putting some orchids in those too, but I'd like to find a few (more) smaller varieties.
More on those thoughts later.
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I live in the middle of the middle of Florida.
Luckily this year the coldest we got was +38*(f) for 2 nights in a row.
The day-time temps got over 50*(f).

All I had to do was cover the individual orchids with some hand towels I purchased (in bulk) from Lowes.
Look, the guy across the street is hanging hankies out to dry at night again!
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HA!
Now I understand the strange looks from the neighbors.


Caught me. I am really just hanging out laundry at night so the Home Owners Assoc. doesn't notice.
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Thanks Subrosa.
I'll make the necessary corrections.

edit: I see, now, what you did in your post "Catt" verse "Cat".
I know they are cattleya--I just screwed up the abbrev.

Thanks for catching it and letting me know!
Oh, I certainly didn't mean to imply you didn't know the difference! No problem!
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OK...real life stuff is a bit quiet right now....

Both buds opened fully on Sunday.
Presently both are open and a bud from "plant #1" is about to open!

The bloom is very colorful and the flowers very fragrant.
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