Glad you rescued this one from the creatures.
Lovely, but I'd call it more, lilac colour.

Damn bugs! I am partial to blue twinkle. Frequent and long lasting bloomer.

Frequent bloomer is right on. It has 3 spikes and this time using all the chemicals that are bad fro our environment but keep the bugs at bay, (actually only snail bait as I think it was a snail) the sprays survived.

Nick

Another view, I like this plant.

Nick

Well done!

Beautiful, love those dens.

What creatures??? I have something eating my buds too. I don't want to use heavy duty stuff, environmental, organic, etc.

I'm too busy attracting wildlife and refuse to use anything that could get my monarch and swallowtail caterpillars. I'm getting lots of honey bees, bumbles. Honey bees are in serious decline, especially in Florida where people walk around with poison sprays like carrying a jug of water. Very disturbing. I just can't do it!

But if you've come up with something safe, I'll give it a try.

Love the antelopes!

Jane

A spoon of dish soap in some rubbing alcohol. Or cheap vodka. It must make contact to the bug.

They like Jack Daniels Black Label better. I started using Miracle Grow Leaf Shine and am having very good results with it. Works really great for scale.

Nick

It looked like it wanted its picture taken. Australian blood. Some of the best dendrobiums come from Aus. I'm thinking that they area they come from, I believe Northern Queensland, is much like mine is as the seem to be very comfortable here.

Finding orchids that like my climate makes it so much easier to have strong plants. I've tried pushing the envelope and end up with dead plants. But because of my good weather there are many choices that like it here. So I have no need to try to grow plants that don't belong here.

This post was edited by shavedmonkey on Tue, Nov 4, 14 at 17:52

Now I know what I have to look forward to if I keep my BP down, spit out everything that tastes good and exercise.

Nick