On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:26:57 -0800, tbell wrote in
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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:15:35 -0800, Larry Dighera wrote
(in article ):

Wonderfully profuse bloom, and that tubular lip is a killer.

Tom
Walnut Creek, CA
Nikon D200


Yes. But you really need to experience the sweet scent.

It is just a 4" pot size now, and it perfumes the whole house for
nearly a month when it blooms. At the time I purchased the plant,
there was an outdoor display of several specimen sized plants and
twenty or thirty smaller ones all in bloom many hanging overhead so
their arching sprays of flowers hung at nose height. It was
impossible to pass by without remarking about the splendid fragrance
in the air.

I grow it outside under 55% shade on the coast. Night temps have been
as low as 38F lately.

I've had some seed in flasks for two months from an intergeneric cross
of Enc. Summer Perfume X Epi. secundum (white, reed-stem). I'm
anxious to see which parent's phenotype is dominant; will it have
bulbs or reed-stems, or something intermediate, or ...?

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