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Epidendrum from HD
I checked out the orchids at HD in another town today and came home with 2
news ones. A clumping orchid called an "Epidendrum Hybrid", 1/2 price ($10) as it was out of bloom and a $12 Phal with two spikes of buttercup yellow flowers. :-))) They lowered the prices on their phals. They also had a large selection of dens with really unusual flowers and colors. I was sooooo tempted as they do so well for me.........sooooooo, sooooooo tempted. Now I have to look up the care for it. Also picked up the Ortho Guide to Orchids... I have a feeling my greenhouse is going to me primarily orchids, cacti and succulents. ;-) |
Epidendrum from HD
What are "cacti and succulents"? They sound to me like nuisances that take
up greenhouse space meant for more orchids. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... I checked out the orchids at HD in another town today and came home with 2 news ones. A clumping orchid called an "Epidendrum Hybrid", 1/2 price ($10) as it was out of bloom and a $12 Phal with two spikes of buttercup yellow flowers. :-))) They lowered the prices on their phals. They also had a large selection of dens with really unusual flowers and colors. I was sooooo tempted as they do so well for me.........sooooooo, sooooooo tempted. Now I have to look up the care for it. Also picked up the Ortho Guide to Orchids... I have a feeling my greenhouse is going to me primarily orchids, cacti and succulents. ;-) |
Epidendrum from HD
Weeds!
"Ray B" wrote in message news:DZvBi.1415$9T5.108@trndny02... What are "cacti and succulents"? They sound to me like nuisances that take up greenhouse space meant for more orchids. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... I checked out the orchids at HD in another town today and came home with 2 news ones. A clumping orchid called an "Epidendrum Hybrid", 1/2 price ($10) as it was out of bloom and a $12 Phal with two spikes of buttercup yellow flowers. :-))) They lowered the prices on their phals. They also had a large selection of dens with really unusual flowers and colors. I was sooooo tempted as they do so well for me.........sooooooo, sooooooo tempted. Now I have to look up the care for it. Also picked up the Ortho Guide to Orchids... I have a feeling my greenhouse is going to me primarily orchids, cacti and succulents. ;-) |
Epidendrum from HD
Yes, I tried to tell Frank that Pecos Pete out on the patio was taking up
space better suited to a very large reed stem Epi or a Gramm.......He gave me *that* look, LOL! Diana "Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:KkzBi.3299$xg.2260@trnddc05... Weeds! "Ray B" wrote in message news:DZvBi.1415$9T5.108@trndny02... What are "cacti and succulents"? They sound to me like nuisances that take up greenhouse space meant for more orchids. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... I checked out the orchids at HD in another town today and came home with 2 news ones. A clumping orchid called an "Epidendrum Hybrid", 1/2 price ($10) as it was out of bloom and a $12 Phal with two spikes of buttercup yellow flowers. :-))) They lowered the prices on their phals. They also had a large selection of dens with really unusual flowers and colors. I was sooooo tempted as they do so well for me.........sooooooo, sooooooo tempted. Now I have to look up the care for it. Also picked up the Ortho Guide to Orchids... I have a feeling my greenhouse is going to me primarily orchids, cacti and succulents. ;-) |
Epidendrum from HD
"Ray B" wrote in message news:DZvBi.1415$9T5.108@trndny02... What are "cacti and succulents"? They sound to me like nuisances that take up greenhouse space meant for more orchids. I almost laughed myself off my chair reading your message. :-D My first love were cacti and succulents. I've had some for over 40 years. When I need more space for orchids I'll move the cacti and succulents to the smaller HFGH next to the Rion. :-))) -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... I checked out the orchids at HD in another town today and came home with 2 news ones. A clumping orchid called an "Epidendrum Hybrid", 1/2 price ($10) as it was out of bloom and a $12 Phal with two spikes of buttercup yellow flowers. :-))) They lowered the prices on their phals. They also had a large selection of dens with really unusual flowers and colors. I was sooooo tempted as they do so well for me.........sooooooo, sooooooo tempted. Now I have to look up the care for it. Also picked up the Ortho Guide to Orchids... I have a feeling my greenhouse is going to me primarily orchids, cacti and succulents. ;-) |
Epidendrum from HD
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:KkzBi.3299$xg.2260@trnddc05... Weeds! No, no, no no....... they take little care and most of them bloom every year. They have beautiful flowers for weeks on end. My smaller GH may become the C&S house. It's well insulated and the C&S don't need much heat or humidity in winter. "Ray B" wrote in message news:DZvBi.1415$9T5.108@trndny02... What are "cacti and succulents"? They sound to me like nuisances that take up greenhouse space meant for more orchids. |
Epidendrum from HD
On Aug 30, 5:20 am, "Ray B" wrote:
What are "cacti and succulents"? ... Two of my severalhorticultural manias-- along with the cycads, the vireyas, the nepenthes, the bonsai, the roses, the bamboo and the camellias. Oh yeah, the orchids, almost forgot the most annoying of the lot. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
We could start another post called "What else do you grow?" Cheers Wendy
"jadel" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 30, 5:20 am, "Ray B" wrote: What are "cacti and succulents"? ... Two of my severalhorticultural manias-- along with the cycads, the vireyas, the nepenthes, the bonsai, the roses, the bamboo and the camellias. Oh yeah, the orchids, almost forgot the most annoying of the lot. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
"Wendy7" wrote in message ... We could start another post called "What else do you grow?" Cheers Wendy That would be interesting. :o) I doubt everyone here just grows orchids. Aside from my orchids I also grow a small collection of geraniums and double flowered impatiens. |
Epidendrum from HD
I forgot to mention the tree peonies---about a dozen of them, and I'm
going to get a nice -P. rockii- hybrid this fall. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
That list is long for me....
I have a calamodin orange tree that I've been growing for 39 years! Outside in summer, indoor in winter. I got it as a kid and it's moved with me about 6 times. I have a couple of weeping figs that are 30 years old. Same routine each year and I hack them back to keep them small enough to bring indoors in the fall. I have two macadamia nut trees from nuts I picked up in Maui two years ago. Something different that most people here in the east don't ever see. I also have a small pulmeria that is doing well. Begonias, african mask, bonsai weeping fig, three bougainvilla, angel trumpet (yellow and Pink), pots and pots of pothos that came from a cutting from a friend 25 years ago and it came from her parents before that. Its a great weed to grow under the benches in the Greenhouse. A 5 year old staghorn fern that I was looking at yesterday and thinking about giving away because it's becoming a big plant. Parlor Palm that was recued from an office 25 years ago when the plant maintenance people were going to throw it away......in a pot with no drainage (and probably no more dirt). Just keeps growing. A couple dozen Christmas Cactus that grow with the pothos under the benches. No problem, just groom them in the spring (they bloom twice a year Thanksgiving and late spring). Clivia that I divided in the spring into 5 big clumps (will give 4 clumps away) got from a lady who I used to cut her grass 20 years ago. Geraniums that winter in the unheated garage and come back every year. One is over 12 years old and just keeps going and going....so much so I almost hate the color now. About 50 pots of Amaryllis....I get them each year after new years day at 75% off (yeah...I am cheap!) then keep them all summer. The next year they bloom for me in May when I can take them outdoors and forget about them...no fuss. Bunches of Ferns and other stuff that probably won't fit back indoors this year. and people can't understand why I want a bigger greenhouse! Good Growing, Gene "Wendy7" wrote in message ... We could start another post called "What else do you grow?" Cheers Wendy "jadel" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 30, 5:20 am, "Ray B" wrote: What are "cacti and succulents"? ... Two of my severalhorticultural manias-- along with the cycads, the vireyas, the nepenthes, the bonsai, the roses, the bamboo and the camellias. Oh yeah, the orchids, almost forgot the most annoying of the lot. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
oh good golly, you live in a botanical garden. How big is that greenhouse
again? I am going to have come see it. Would it be better to come see the place before or after you stuff it back inside the greenhouse? You didn't mention begonias. "Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:tr0Ci.1434$tB2.1165@trndny05... That list is long for me.... I have a calamodin orange tree that I've been growing for 39 years! Outside in summer, indoor in winter. I got it as a kid and it's moved with me about 6 times. I have a couple of weeping figs that are 30 years old. Same routine each year and I hack them back to keep them small enough to bring indoors in the fall. I have two macadamia nut trees from nuts I picked up in Maui two years ago. Something different that most people here in the east don't ever see. I also have a small pulmeria that is doing well. Begonias, african mask, bonsai weeping fig, three bougainvilla, angel trumpet (yellow and Pink), pots and pots of pothos that came from a cutting from a friend 25 years ago and it came from her parents before that. Its a great weed to grow under the benches in the Greenhouse. A 5 year old staghorn fern that I was looking at yesterday and thinking about giving away because it's becoming a big plant. Parlor Palm that was recued from an office 25 years ago when the plant maintenance people were going to throw it away......in a pot with no drainage (and probably no more dirt). Just keeps growing. A couple dozen Christmas Cactus that grow with the pothos under the benches. No problem, just groom them in the spring (they bloom twice a year Thanksgiving and late spring). Clivia that I divided in the spring into 5 big clumps (will give 4 clumps away) got from a lady who I used to cut her grass 20 years ago. Geraniums that winter in the unheated garage and come back every year. One is over 12 years old and just keeps going and going....so much so I almost hate the color now. About 50 pots of Amaryllis....I get them each year after new years day at 75% off (yeah...I am cheap!) then keep them all summer. The next year they bloom for me in May when I can take them outdoors and forget about them...no fuss. Bunches of Ferns and other stuff that probably won't fit back indoors this year. and people can't understand why I want a bigger greenhouse! Good Growing, Gene "Wendy7" wrote in message ... We could start another post called "What else do you grow?" Cheers Wendy "jadel" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 30, 5:20 am, "Ray B" wrote: What are "cacti and succulents"? ... Two of my severalhorticultural manias-- along with the cycads, the vireyas, the nepenthes, the bonsai, the roses, the bamboo and the camellias. Oh yeah, the orchids, almost forgot the most annoying of the lot. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:tr0Ci.1434$tB2.1165@trndny05... That list is long for me.... I have a calamodin orange tree that I've been growing for 39 years! Outside in summer, indoor in winter. I got it as a kid and it's moved with me about 6 times. I have a couple of weeping figs that are 30 years old. Same routine each year and I hack them back to keep them small enough to bring indoors in the fall. I have two macadamia nut trees from nuts I picked up in Maui two years ago. Something different that most people here in the east don't ever see. I also have a small pulmeria that is doing well. Begonias, african mask, bonsai weeping fig, three bougainvilla, angel trumpet (yellow and Pink), pots and pots of pothos that came from a cutting from a friend 25 years ago and it came from her parents before that. Its a great weed to grow under the benches in the Greenhouse. A 5 year old staghorn fern that I was looking at yesterday and thinking about giving away because it's becoming a big plant. Parlor Palm that was recued from an office 25 years ago when the plant maintenance people were going to throw it away......in a pot with no drainage (and probably no more dirt). Just keeps growing. A couple dozen Christmas Cactus that grow with the pothos under the benches. No problem, just groom them in the spring (they bloom twice a year Thanksgiving and late spring). Clivia that I divided in the spring into 5 big clumps (will give 4 clumps away) got from a lady who I used to cut her grass 20 years ago. Geraniums that winter in the unheated garage and come back every year. One is over 12 years old and just keeps going and going....so much so I almost hate the color now. About 50 pots of Amaryllis....I get them each year after new years day at 75% off (yeah...I am cheap!) then keep them all summer. The next year they bloom for me in May when I can take them outdoors and forget about them...no fuss. Bunches of Ferns and other stuff that probably won't fit back indoors this year. and people can't understand why I want a bigger greenhouse! Good Growing, Gene And my neighbor thinks I'm a plant nut!!!!!!!!! Your plants must be a full time job. |
Epidendrum from HD
Begonias are in there......
The trees come into the house for the winter so they don't fill the GH. The first year in the GH I was able to put a couple of them in there. I had two more 6 feet tall fig trees that I took into work and left with a women in there. Since then they closed that office and she took them home for the summer. She says she will have to move her hubby into a corner to make room for the plants. He needs less light! The angel trumpets go dormant in the garage (with the banana tree if it survives). Yeah...two car garage and in winter my SUV barely fits in there. I don't know if there will be room in the GH this winter for me to go out there and water. I hate to see winter come! "Al" wrote in message news:HX1Ci.195$3R5.79@trnddc05... oh good golly, you live in a botanical garden. How big is that greenhouse again? I am going to have come see it. Would it be better to come see the place before or after you stuff it back inside the greenhouse? You didn't mention begonias. "Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:tr0Ci.1434$tB2.1165@trndny05... That list is long for me.... I have a calamodin orange tree that I've been growing for 39 years! Outside in summer, indoor in winter. I got it as a kid and it's moved with me about 6 times. I have a couple of weeping figs that are 30 years old. Same routine each year and I hack them back to keep them small enough to bring indoors in the fall. I have two macadamia nut trees from nuts I picked up in Maui two years ago. Something different that most people here in the east don't ever see. I also have a small pulmeria that is doing well. Begonias, african mask, bonsai weeping fig, three bougainvilla, angel trumpet (yellow and Pink), pots and pots of pothos that came from a cutting from a friend 25 years ago and it came from her parents before that. Its a great weed to grow under the benches in the Greenhouse. A 5 year old staghorn fern that I was looking at yesterday and thinking about giving away because it's becoming a big plant. Parlor Palm that was recued from an office 25 years ago when the plant maintenance people were going to throw it away......in a pot with no drainage (and probably no more dirt). Just keeps growing. A couple dozen Christmas Cactus that grow with the pothos under the benches. No problem, just groom them in the spring (they bloom twice a year Thanksgiving and late spring). Clivia that I divided in the spring into 5 big clumps (will give 4 clumps away) got from a lady who I used to cut her grass 20 years ago. Geraniums that winter in the unheated garage and come back every year. One is over 12 years old and just keeps going and going....so much so I almost hate the color now. About 50 pots of Amaryllis....I get them each year after new years day at 75% off (yeah...I am cheap!) then keep them all summer. The next year they bloom for me in May when I can take them outdoors and forget about them...no fuss. Bunches of Ferns and other stuff that probably won't fit back indoors this year. and people can't understand why I want a bigger greenhouse! Good Growing, Gene "Wendy7" wrote in message ... We could start another post called "What else do you grow?" Cheers Wendy "jadel" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 30, 5:20 am, "Ray B" wrote: What are "cacti and succulents"? ... Two of my severalhorticultural manias-- along with the cycads, the vireyas, the nepenthes, the bonsai, the roses, the bamboo and the camellias. Oh yeah, the orchids, almost forgot the most annoying of the lot. J. Del Col |
Epidendrum from HD
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message news:bS3Ci.254$eD5.4@trnddc07... Begonias are in there...... The trees come into the house for the winter so they don't fill the GH. How large is your greenhouse? |
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