Very nice!

Thanks for the culture info from your blog. Was beginning to wonder if I would be able to bloom it again next year.

Picked up a plant that just said "ionopsis" in December, with 2 spikes just starting. A third emerged and the 20" long spikes are now blooming. Mine seems to be more multicolred than your pic. It goes from yellow and lavender to white and lavender as the blooms age.

Your picture is beautiful!
Jan

Lovely pictures, have seen this before but backed off from acquiring it. Will look for it at the Redlands show.

Thank you all for the nice comments.

Jan, this orchid has just about the widest geographic range of any epiphytic orchid in the New World. Thus, it is remarkably variable depending on its geographic origin. Yours sounds like an interesting color form in that the flowers start out one color and age to a different color. I've had my plant for years and I simply place it within a densely leafy shrub and then pretty much ignore it. In fact, at one point, I completely forgot I had the plant until, about a year later, it flowered! During that time, it was never artificially watered and never fertilized.

Sambac, you are right to look for it at the Redlands show. That's where I found my plant (I've seen the Florida form growing in the wild, and it has much smaller and daintier flowers than the plant I got at the Redlands show).

Regards to all,
Rufino

Lovely flowers, I am impressed.