Saturday, October 30, 2010

A Few Plants Of Phalaenopsis amboinensis 'Common'

I recently acquired a few different plants of Phal. amboinensis 'Common'
First plant has quite beautiful flowers with dense bars although the bars are thinner and the flower shape is average.  Hopefully the shape will improve when the plant is bigger.
The next plant produces huge flowers with very clean and bold bars but the bars are not so dense.  The flower shape is better than the one above but maybe because the plant is very well grown.


The flower below belongs to a plant of Phal. amboinensis 'Nicole' AM/AOS which is an award winning amboinensis 'Common'. This plant has a bigger and rounder petal and brighter color.


The next flower belongs to another plant of amboinensis 'Nicole' but this one has more flower count and the flowers are bigger.





Friday, October 22, 2010

Dendrobium indivisum var. lampangense

This Dendrobium has small flowers which are pure greenich yellow in color.  This particular plant is from Thailand.  The typical Den. indivisum has cinnamon colored stripes whereas var. lampangense has pure color.

Phalaenopsis from Yih-Cheng nursery

Got this from Yih-Cheng nursery a couple of years back when they participated in the Garden Tech Festival in Hort Park.  This is one of those hybrids with a complicated parentage and i am not even sure of its name.  Just enjoy it for its beauty.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Dendrobium farmeri

This plant flowered recently and i totally did not notice the developing flower spike at all.  It is mounted next to some coelogynes and i thought i wanted to "starve" the coelogynes to induce flowering so i did not water them at all for a few days.  The Dendrobium farmeri formed a flower spike instead and until now there is no response from the coelogynes at all.  That's a classic case of "有心栽花 花不发, 无心插柳 柳成荫".

Bulbophyllum plumatum

This is a Bulbophyllum with a flower structure that looks like a lantern.

The long petals are about six to eight inches in length.