12.99 -Okay Deal! Jungle Monarch!!!!!!

A trip to Kroger for bottles of water for the office turns into a new baby!
Mislabeled as Colm. Jungle Monarch this plants has been changed to Onc. Jungle Monarch.
Not bad for $12.99 I am one happy girl!

And that hybrid in the background is Rowan, four years old, grows like weed :D

Future orchid geek & pretty orchid, he as a happy kid too!

Neofinetia falcata, Ami Ami Island Form 3 spikes this year

Awesome! We have three spike coming up to greet us this year! Yay! Last year was only one spike. I am anticipating it so much imagine all those blooms! Can't wait until I can do a bloom count! Whoot!

Summer time: Finally kicking some babies outside

My Shelf Looks Almost Naked Now

Things have been rough around here lately and there has been 3 casualties, several give-aways to a friend starting a collection all over again, and one raffle donation.
So my collection has dropped to a manageable 36 plants from about 52 or so. Which is nice and manageable, however still very heartbreaking. Hopefully kicking these babies outside will do some good for them and kick them into growth overgear & maybe I'll get some blooms out of them after some much regretted neglect.

The great news is that they all have new growth and the monster mini cym has 5 or 6 six huge new growths yay!

More show pictures

Sorry it took me so long to get these pics for everyone ;(

But finally here they are! ENJOY!!!

Three Rivers Orchid Society Display, from Fort Wayne, IN (above)

Ohio Orchid Society Display (above)

I Back Finally :) With Promised show pictures too!

Countdown to the show!!!

Well I got to get up in 5.5 hrs and head to the conservatory to take pre ribbon pictures of all the displays and plants :)
I have some fierce competition on the photos I entered......darn. Maybe I will have great luck with the Restrepia trichoglossa photo :)
I entered a NOID Phal and A NOID Cym. Apparently my other plants didn't want to bloom for the show :( However I have a harlequin phal with swelling buds and a pod swelling and a phal pulchra spike growing, so I am not to disapointed since half my collection is seedlings lol.
I have my eyes on a harella retrocalla and a phal lobii or another species phal or something species :)

Yay! Easter/Congrats to myself on a new job Cym!

I really shouldn't have bought it but how could I resist? My other Cyms are pretty small one is a seedling and one is from a back bulb from my friend Cindy in California. It may bloom next year or maybe this year even not sure though. But I thought since it would be a while I should buy it anyways. It has six spikes on it which is nice!