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New Orchids
Many people look passed the variety in any given genus that is possible.
With regard to collecting, they mentally group like kind and dismiss subtle differences. Fortunately a long time ago, by employing immense diversification of form, orchids as a family outsmarted many people and paved the way for addiction by uniqueness. If 'people' as a group also included some individuals who had wings and some who had hooves and tails then nobody would notice skin color or eye shape as unique and different. The new orchid grower, after they get one or two "standard" Phals goes hunting for something "new" and they look not for another Phal that has different characteristics but for something that is not a Phal. New and experienced orchid growers alike tend to group according to general form and, unless they specialize, tend to collect small numbers of like kind from across a zillion different genuses. The orchids have already won weather a collector specializes in one genus and marvels in the subtlties or collects from across a wide range of genuses and marvels at the uniqueness. They have tricked us into giving them whole rooms of our homes just by growing warts and hairs in odd places. "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... Part of me feels like I ought to defend long-lasting Phals: I find their enduring beauty somewhat surreal and awe-inspiring. And I feel guilty over not being appreciative enough of my Phal Zuma Confection that bloomed for five months, most of it without changing. But alas, I too prefered activity. However, even among Phals and Dtps some are more active than others: I really appreciate sequential bloomers. My very favorite a semi-peloric Dtps Talitha Gem has been blooming for four months, but it looks completely different now than it did to begin with! At first it had a spike going straight up with up to 15 flowers at once. Then its older flowers started falling off as new ones opened, and its like a clump of flowers moving steadily further toward the window ... up the spike, then down (as the spike curved under its own weight), now up again. I keep counting and recounting how many flowers it lost, how many are currently in bloom and how many new buds are forming ... no, it's not done yet forming new buds, it's up to a total of 20 former flowers, 7 currently in bloom, and at least 6 buds remaining, and about 4 feet of spike. I have not had a boring week with this plant. :-) So even a Phal or Dtps can be very exiting. Joanna "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message news:1YQwb.21905 As for longevity, my Phals provide a long lasting background for more transient flowers. Recently, I cut off two or three old, but still blooming spikes on Phals because the plants were throwing off new spikes and needed a bit of a rest. Bottom line: I think we are fickle, us orchid growers. There must be people who grow only certain types of orchids, but I imagine that most of us like variety. And, we're suckers for something new! |
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