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

Cleisostoma arietinum

my sweet little terete

leptotes pohlitinocoi sheltered under bougainvillea

The garden as mitzvah; a little healing for this fucked up world?

Pandorea jasminoides

Colors usually like the sun

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Thunbergia

epidendrum radican-  I love orange.. and an easy growing orchid

Smart

1. Trimmed parrot vine sharply. This shrub can overwhelm.. though it is one of my favorites.

2. Regarding the bougainvillea, I had put some feed and protect (for insects) in a small bag created with panty hose in the large bougainvillea pot. This is the 2nd treatment within a month or so. Its beginning to keep leafs and bracts - they are not being eaten before maturing.

3. Repeatedly soaking pots.. around the sides, in the middle of growth. Over an hour of watering. 

4. Caring is work.

Notice new coned Eugenia below hanging baskets of striped purple spiderwort (tradescantia zabrina). Pretty smart looking.

deep drinker

Areca for screening

prune the bougainvillea canes looking forward to summer growth

Getting bougainvillea ready for the growing season. planted orange bird of paradise for the form of the leaf

2 months later

Still in bloom

Several different types of begonias here. most obvios U402 and one that looks like Selph's Mahogany.. or another type of erect rhizome.

In bloom for over 2 months

New Growth gaussia gomez-pompae

New frond opens

Healthy heart -- a new shoot.

after 3-4 weeks a new frond ready to open

Roots

Did I cut the root ball back too much on palm? mmm.