I've been posting on Instagram - "pottedbliss" is the nom de plume.

 

 

Colors in the balmy sea air.

2019 cruise Holland America Nieuw Statendam to Dominican Republic, Aruba, Curacao and Barbados

Mares garden in Puerta Plata DR

Stiff straps on these quarter terete vandas

nicely done. 12-15' heading to the sun.

A frame of bromiliads, featuring the anemone-like tillandsia caputmedusae (center).

Arikok National Park Aruba

Yours truly on a desert island

manage a trois

Winter solstice 50's at night 75-80's day. 

bougainvillea and Madagascar palm 

Secured 'miss joachim' to a 4" x 50" dowel

Under the colusia

What do you call a group of orchids? a murder? a pod?

Too lazy to look up and list all here are a few hanging under the colusia; bulbophyllum faschnator, leptotes pohlitinocoi, brassavola nodosa, etc. Colusia is a great potted plant for the terrace that gets direct sun. It can take a beating, if you keep it hydrated. 

Oncidium zelenkoanum
Purchased from Andy's Orchids, they arrived looking like they had been buried in the back of the greenhouse. Leaves weren't clean, there was a little black spot. I water, the wind and the dappled sun dries. If there's anything that will bring these bitches back to 100% it will be dappled sun at various times during the day and a near constant breeze around the plant to keep leaves and exposed pseudobulbs dry.

I've bought from him before and the plants have been beautiful, not sure what happened here..

December

Heading toward the winter solstice. 

Brassavola subulifolia

Sweet thang early in mornin'

A handful follow in the following weeks

drilled a hole in heavy driftwood, bent a coat hanger and wrapped some moss tied with stretch tie etc

Mounted brassavola 'yellow bird' 

Oncidium

Oncidium -- sweet vanilla scent (hybrid of incurvum?)

  

East Everglades Orchid Show

Small but friendly show. Wonderful scented cattleya, brassavola, vanda, etc.

Today's purchases were both bought because they favor very bright light.

Myrmecophila tibicinis nee. Schomburgkia. tibicini -- has bright yellow pseudobulbs and grows high in the treetops of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia.

 tibicinis

Cirrhopetalum  (bulbophyllum) fascinator

12.5.2018 several flowers emerging

Sun

4pm full sun brassavola subulifolia

Water

I'm using Zero Water filter for orchid spray. 1/2 cap full of kelp w 1/2 diluted fish emulsion (quite diluted) per 1-2 gallons. Ideally let this sit overnight. Every 2 weeks or so, I'll add a few drops of SuperThrive.

Are the high NPK fertilizers necessary for blooming?

It's the dog days of summer and near impossible to over-water. A constant ocean breeze keeps air around roots circulating. 

Tropical Storm Gordon blusters by -- a very rainy day

Stuck inside

new combinations

Large pot with sea grape in center, spindle palm in back, fern, thunbergia, burly marx, primrose, bougainvillea, etc. Sea grape has several 'trunks' all vertical, a handsome habit. 

Just enough shade to tuck this ginger in next to a big pot of macho fern. Both easy to grow.. 

Papilionanthe teres x Papilionanthe hookeriana

rhyncholaelia digbyana

Ascocentrum / garayi Thailand

From Andy's Orchids on a Stick. Not cheap but fairly quick to bloom. I'm willing. 

A few hours of dappled light. 

sweet