Friday Orchid Blogging

Blc. Copper Queen

I've had this one for a few years, and it's finally showing its potential. As you'll see from the bottom photo, there are five flowers this time blooming, and that's a sign of a happy plant. And happy almost always means "good light." This is a family of orchid that likes a good deal of light. I gave this baby a lot sunlight, out on my balcony this summer, and that, along with some hideous looking lamps from Ikea shining on it 15 hours a day, gave me some great blooms (and great in quantity - the better the growing, the more blooms).



Now if you check out the photo below, you'll notice below the flowers, on the let, there's a stripy snaky pod thing growing. Those are the flowers coming out of a paph. mulitfloral that I have blooming for the first time. Hopefully all of those flowers will open at once, and it should be - knock on wood - quite a cool display. This is the kind of plant that makes those flowers that look a bit like evil bats in wing formation. That one should be in a full bloom in a few weeks. Stay tuned.