ooh fun! I love threads like these! :D

All of yours are beautiful! Edge of Darkness is one of the few plants on my wishlist actually. :)

These are all blooming! :D I love my windowsill minis. :)

I also have an orchid blooming.. tho I can't take credit for it, as it was just given to me. :)

And one or two lonely little streps! :P

And there's a few blooms there on the top shelf. Wranglers Cowboy blues, my delight, blue mist, redoubled, & Trinidad II.

Just for kicks... I had edge of darkness, and this is what it bloomed as. Kinda wild and cool but deff not right! I ended up gifting it.

All my orchids, 12 of them, are blooming. But half of my AVs are suffering for my repotting action.

HI everyone, isn't it lovely when the sun stays longer in the sky so that all our flowers blossom.

Yolanda

I just love everybody's window shelves. I've been seeing them on other posts. I'm going to have to get some!

And Joyfulsu, I think your Edge of Darkness is really interesting! But it is always a disappointment when they sport. I grew mine from two leaves I bought from Lyndon Lyon last July, and it has become one of my favorites. I have a fascination with very dark blooms.

Oh my favorite store! EYE CANDY! lol Beautiful everyone!!! Rosie

I love Lemon Whip! Oh I wish I could have one :) So pretty!

Tina, I love Lemon Whip too! I've had this one a long time.

Hey, do you like succulents, Harawlins? I love how a line of succulents looks in little pots on a windowsill! :D

Hello Joyfulsu! I do love succulents, and have a nice collection of interesting ones inside. Unfortunately, I live in a tiny apartment and have only one pot outside. But my indoor succulents are in the brightest possible spot, and seem to do very well. And, by the way, my name is Heather. ;)

Love all of your photos!

Heather, I have tried to grow succulents indoor.. but I wonder if I just don't have enough light for them. I should try them again at my south window. They like Sandy soil right?

I see that there are eBay auctions where you can buy like 15-30 succulents cuttings, but $20+ seemed a little steep to me for cuttings! That is cheaper than $4 a plant at Lowe's tho! :P

I've had great success growing my cacti and succulents in the same mix I use for my African violets. I use equal parts peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite. This mix drains quickly enough for succulents and helps prevent rot. And sand is fine to use too if you have a bagged mix, or you could just add some extra perlite to lighten it up some.

I don't have nearly as many as you all, and the orchid never blooms (I'm surprised it's doing as well as it is actually), but here are my bloomers:

Very nice (and healthy) looking plants ...

Blueberry, from what I could see of your Phalanopsis -- in the background as it was -- it looks to be doing okay (leaves appear firm and not super deep green). To set spike (with orchids, the flower stalk is referred to as a "spike"), most phals require a 15F degree temperature difference between day and night temps. I don't know where you usually keep yours, but you might try a windowsill which gets chilly at night but is warm by day. Because of the need to "chill down", many windowsill growers find that their phals begin to spike sometime around November or December with flowering then occurring sometime in late January or February. However, if provided with a mother nth or two of nightly cooling, phals can often be induced to spike anytime of year. (That's how nurseries do it for the ones you see year round at grocery stores and such.)

highly jealous of your succulent blooming..i've yet to get any of mine to bloom

I dont really have anything in bloom..what i did have..is either fading..or gone..most of my av's are leaves still in propagation..or recently bought plants...I do have a type of bromeliad but...cant take credit for that as i just got it..

orchids...dont get me started..its the one plant i so badly want to grow..and easily kill..love/hate relationship

I find many orchids to be far more durable than AVs. :-) Most people kill them by overwatering them -- often in conjunction with using the wrong growing media.

In a sense, orchids are more durable that AS's. It is much harder to kill them.

The difficulty, for me, ... is getting them to bloom. I have recently heard that subjecting the plants (orchids) to cooler temperatures for a season will stimulate blooming.

Not the easiest thing to do in a temperature controlled home.

My experience is entirely with Moth Orchids. I'm looking at healthy leaves right now. No bloom in going on (2) years.

AV's are much more adapted to the conditions people find comfortable ... so they'll bloom spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Aegis - I have my Orchids - several Phals and one Paph - on a light shelf with AVs - in hydroton and water with the same fertilizer. They bloom reliably once sometimes twice a year. 3 months each spray. The semi/hydro approach to Orchids - firstrays.com. It works very well.

I totally agree with Paul and Aegis about orchids being a lot hardier than AVs. I love violets, but I find that they are far too susceptible to disease. My orchids have never had anything wrong with them, except that I bought many of them on clearance and had to nurse them back to health. And I agree that keeping them in a windowsill gives them the shift in temperature they need to bloom. They can bloom under artificial light too, but mine wasn't strong enough. All of mine stay in a window and bloom reliably every year without me having to worry too much about them.

If you are having trouble getting your Phals to bloom, put them outside in the fall in a protected spot. A few weeks of night temperatures in the low 50's usually will bring on blooms.

Thank-you Terri ... I never thought of putting them outside for a spell ...