Some Neofinetia in bloom

[camille1585]

A few of my Neos are flowering this year. Only 4 out of 9, but it's still a good start! Taking nice photos has been challenging, it's difficult to get the exposure right on white flowers without making the rest of the plant too underexposed. So I fiddled around with indoor and outdoor photography, which was fun to do.

First is Tamakongo, a plant which was always aborting young spikes every year, until this year.


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-26-004 by Camille, on Flickr


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-30-059 by Camille, on Flickr

Kinyuko, a plant with really nice yellow markings. They're a bit faded now, this plant seems to need rather bright light for the markings to be at their best (not the case in the winter!)


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-30-043 by Camille, on Flickr


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-30-045 by Camille, on Flickr

Higashidemiyako - I hadn't noticed until the plant was outside that the flower stems have a purple tinge to them.


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-30-067 by Camille, on Flickr

Fugaku - this Fugaku only has one leaf with the typical markings for the variety, the rest of the plant is solid green. It's a vigorous grower, so it's made up for the lack of variegation! And it has nice pink root tips.


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-26-012 by Camille, on Flickr


IMG_Orchids-2020-05-26-013 by Camille, on Flickr