Saturday, March 11, 2006

Victoria Orchid Society show


Last weekend Jenn came to town for a visit and we went to the VOS show where we met up with Sasha. The three of us hit the sales area first, and after carefully selecting some new plants, we toured the display plants. The orchid show marks the one year anniversary of my avid collecting phase, and the three new plants I bought brings my total new plants in the past year to 27! The centrepiece of the top picture is of course a beautiful Coelogyne cristata. One day my plant might look like that!! Below, Jenn is admiring a Paph. micranthum.

24 Comments:

At 12:18 p.m., Blogger High Power Rocketry said...

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At 12:20 p.m., Blogger High Power Rocketry said...

Welcome to the blogger front page! I love orchids and plants of all kinds (non flowering plants the most).

Anyway I recently went to the NYBG Orchid show, it was very nice.

R2K
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At 2:47 p.m., Blogger Richard Brinker said...

Wonderful pictures! Your site is very interesting.

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At 3:25 p.m., Blogger neneng ceriwis said...

Hi, My name is tya. I live in Indonesia. I'm just asking, have you ever visited Singapore's Orchid Garden? if you haven't, well I suggest you should. It's one of the beautiful orchid garden I've ever visited.

 
At 3:39 p.m., Blogger pol said...

Hello!! Language can be our fronter. I´m from Argentina. You can see some of my plants in www.orquideofilia.blogspot.com .

I really find the orchids fantastic, every single plant is an spectacular form of life. You can visit me in this page to see some of mi plants, or at www.cuervoypirata.blogspot.com in my dayly writes.
Bye.

 
At 9:23 p.m., Blogger Online Degree said...

Found you through the blogger homepage... love the orchids!

 
At 10:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi naomi...

my name is esther and I'm from holland.
the little country in europe.
I came here trough google,just typed orchid...

I love orchids...

just wanted to say hello...

my blog is [url]http://lostinlive.web-log.nl[/url]

you cant read it because its in dutch,but you can at least see who I am,hahahaha.

greets esther

 
At 11:06 p.m., Blogger Tom said...

Just another reason I need to make up to Victoria.

 
At 11:15 p.m., Blogger Christina said...

Great blog! I love flowers, especially orchids, dabbling in growing some orchids and taking their photos too.

I live in a condo and am trying to keep my collection small, dedicated mainly to small flowering, compact plants. One of my favorites: Dendrobium Mingle's Sapphire, a primary hybrid of 2 Philippine species, Den gonzalesii x victoriae-reginae.

Keep up the great work! Glad you made it to the Blogger front page!

 
At 4:58 a.m., Blogger High Power Rocketry said...

I love how the number of orchid species keeps increasing!

Rockets

 
At 5:11 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love orchids...my mother too...that's why she gave me that name :p

 
At 5:41 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Orchids are a beautiful reminder of God's grace in this fallen world.

 
At 10:33 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonderful Blog.I´m from Colombia, South América, where you can find thousands of classes of "orquídeas", and also our national flower is the orchid. You can find orchids every where, from 2.800 mts altitude to 0 feet. And know here are many of horticultors.

 
At 11:13 a.m., Blogger sailaja said...

Absolutely wonderful blog for orchid enthusiasts.I visited the Singapore Orchid garden a couple of years ago and it was one the best orchid gardens I have ever seen.Worth visiting!

Jesus With Love

 
At 11:52 a.m., Blogger {*} said...

Nice Blog.
I love Orchids, they are truly one of natures most beautiful creations.
Would you be interested in some close-up shots of individual orchid flowers?

 
At 3:22 p.m., Blogger High Power Rocketry said...

I also grow carnivorous plants, do you have any of those?

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At 7:26 a.m., Blogger Career Break Guru said...

Those are gorgeous! I wish I could grow such lovely plants.

 
At 10:20 a.m., Blogger Ava said...

Hi. This is my first time to your blog. Orchids are interesting to me, but I've never tried my hand at them.

My question ... how warm do you have to keep the house in order to keep orchids?

You're welcome to visit my blog at
www.funformemusicforyou.blogspot.com

I'll be back!

Thanks!

Ava

 
At 11:25 a.m., Blogger Enrique Juárez said...

Pretty the orquideas, in Guatemala there is a beautiful one that is called White Monja.

 
At 10:54 a.m., Blogger Lollie Dot Com said...

Fantastic Orchids! I love your blog. I wish I was near enough I could come take pictures of them myself! :))

 
At 4:02 p.m., Blogger Katie said...

I love orchids and I think this is a great blog!

 
At 5:27 a.m., Blogger High Power Rocketry said...

We are ready for a new post!

:)

R2K

 
At 9:55 a.m., Blogger Crystal said...

Beautiful Beautiful pictures! WOW--you bought 27 orchids in one year alone? It's an expensive addiction, and please post more about how you get them to re-bloom okay!

 
At 3:47 p.m., Blogger Funkybrewster said...

If you check out the postings in June, July and August 2005 there are some great photos of orchids in our home as well as on our travels. A few people mentioned the Singapore National Orchid Gardens, which I also visited a few years ago. I posted photos from that trip and you'll find on the blog (in August 05 I think).
Jenn

 

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