Orchid grower diary
You start slowly... from one regular Phalaenopsis from some supermarket sale. Then you get another because they are so pretty. Then the regular Phalaenopsis is not enough anymore. Looks like everyone has at east one. So you start looking at flower shops for some other types. You kill lots of them and buy even more.
Until you start ordering more rare species from online nurseries, special pots, special bark and you are surrounded by orchid supplies and nobody wants to talk to you, because you just yap about roots, potassium deficiency, sheaths, rhizomes and weird diseases...
Nobody understand you besides the few other crazy people in the forum.
You share photos and discuss every little spot on the leaf. Is that a virus shape or bacteria? Or maybe its just a sunburn.
And all that for what?
For the flowers... for this little peace of some wild nature. And also for the challenge of growing what others cant :p
In the end you have no friends, but 300 orchids piled up in every corner of your house :)
Oh well...
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BEER.We have three flowers on windowsill. My spouse always doesn't remember to water those. They were going to die.
Once I started to care of it
Now I hope to see how it blossom
Kitty cat alert!! <3
The plant looks great! It's Spathiphyllum type with lovely flowers. Smell them when they bloom :) Smells nice.
Very cool plant to have.
It is a first time i see its blossom!
It means it is happy!
Well done :)
Fantastic photos from a super fanatic addictive orchid lover!! You must have been an orchid in outer galaxy in one of your past lives! LoL
hahaha or a lazy cat :D
Oh! No! Never a lazy cat!! A naughty cat, may be!
Who, me? :p
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Thank you :)
oh! thats me :)) with exception it wasnt a supermarket sale, I stole them at my former office when we moved...
very sympatico post, Ewa!
Hahaha plant thievery is another step :D :D
Thanks :)
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Wow. 300 ORCHIDS!
That's amazing. If you have a picture of your entire garden, do send it across. loved the flower shot.
I don't have that many, but just because I have limited space. There are standing in the house here and there. No impressive views.
But gimme space and fill it up with plants :)
Ah. Space is always an issue. Hopefully someday you will have the space you desire and can fill it up with plants 😃
I hope so too :)
Superb little article with great addition photographs!
That last sentence about no friends and 300 orchids though, that made me laugh, but not in a mean way 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
Haha I'm glad it is! It was supposed to make people laugh :)
Correct plant care can be time consuming work if there are many plants to look after. Flower care even more so :-)
Way too many plants... :)