The reason I grow cyms is for their beauty and when in flower they have to put on a display in the house. I grabbed all of the ones in flower today and put them together. This is the result. I appreciate all of the effort hybidisers and breeders put into developing new plants and in a few years I hope to have more up to date plants (lots of seedlings growing on), so folks please keep producing these gorgeous plants.
We have at the top Victoria Village 'Trinity' and a green pendulous noid. The middle row is a canaliculatum hybrid; Finger of Suspicion 'NH' (cut spikes); Mini Splash 'Fantasy' and Osborn (erythrostylum x dayanum)
The front is Strathbraan 'Ice'; La Costa Lady; Putana x Jurassic Amber and Sleeping Nymph 'Glacier' (cut spikes) Green Pendulous noid
And who do you grow orchids for?? Lovely display, there are some thrips on the ventral sepals of the alba standard, the albas always seem to attract them. I imagine they come in from the fields around you in the Autumn as the grains and grasses dry off.
Terry,
Congratulations on the collection. If I was lucky enough to have such a display in my lounge room, I would sit for hours and sip on a few of whatever that is to the left of the Strathbraan 'Ice.'
How's the weather there? Nice and sunny like here?
Terry, the English weather looks vile, in fact all of Central and Northern Europe seem to be in the grip of never-ending Winter. Must be Global Warming...... hope that you are home looking at your beautiful orchids and sipping a warming dram!
MrCym wrote:Terry, the English weather looks vile, in fact all of Central and Northern Europe seem to be in the grip of never-ending Winter. Must be Global Warming...... hope that you are home looking at your beautiful orchids and sipping a warming dram!
Andy we are as you say having a very cold spell at the moment but I am happy to report that right next to the cyms in the living room is a dissused fireplace. Take a look!
I find that having a lot of open bottles makes it more difficult for my wife to keep track of my drinking habits.
I notice there are some spots on the lower sepals of Sleeping Nymph 'Glacier'. What causes that? My orchids (not only Cyms) have that too, sometimes.
Albert at the time I took the picture of that plant it had been in flower for 7 weeks including as a cut stem for 2 weeks. The flowers were starting to decay and I think the marks were the result of old insect bites that were gradually killing off the tissue cells. I have not noticed that they get attacked more than others but the marks showed up more on this plant.
