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Help translate this mangled article on orchids
Someone gave me a 'Cornish Gardener' free paper, in which there is a
longish article on orchids. I don't know if its been cut or just badly written, but some of it is just incomprehensible. Can you make sense of this? "...if you are buying a Cymbidium orchid as a pot plant or as a corsage, , never buy one with a pink 'lip' (which is the bottom petal that hangs down). This is because the plant has germinated, , and just like any flower that has germinated, it will soon die ..." Now, I'm guessing that by 'germinated' the writer means 'pollinated'. But surely loads of cymbidium orchids have pink bottom lips? The lips on mine are pink as soon as the flower opens. And why should one flower having been pollinated mean the plant is unsuitable as a pot plant? I can see why it might be inappropriate as a cut flower, but surely the point of cymbidiums is that they go on flowering for an incredibly long time and make new buds almost constantly? Victoria, (alias Baffled of Cornwall) -- gardening on a north-facing hill in South-East Cornwall -- |
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