Blc. George King 'Serendipity'
Here is Blc. George King 'Serendipity' in bloom for me. One of my beautiful larger orchids, the blooms were extremely fragrant and lasted a couple of weeks. Slightly more peach in person than my photos suggest and slightly less pink, it produced magnificent flowers.
In warmer growing conditions I expect the orange-golds may be a little stronger as I have photographed this cultivar at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and seen it more peachy-orange at that location. Blooms were about 5 inches across.
At some point I'd still like to obtain Pot. Edith North 'Danny Adams' which is a similar one also often peach colored but with more yellow and less deep pink in the lip. Perhaps in the spring when I divide my orchids I can make some trades.
Here is an example of Pot. Edith North 'Danny Adams' that I photographed at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. If you have one you might be willing to part with a division of, please do keep me in mind.
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- 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
It's partly the camera, but this particular bloom round was simply a lot more pink than before. Flower color and size to some degree can be affected by temperature and other conditions. It's perfectly normal. If it had bloomed in late spring when it was 20 degrees warmer in my growing space than it is now, it would probably have been more peach.
My cymbidiums do the same thing. They tend to bloom darker orange in cooler weather and paler orange for me in high summer heat. *shrugs* It's -WAY- more changeable with some of my gesneriads like my streptocarpus or african violets. They can change colors completely and temperature drastically alters how much white the blooms display, or not.
For example, here is one of my streptocarpus 'Valor' blooming in spring. Pale with lots of yellow and network of purple, as is typical for this hybrid.
But here is the /exact/ same plant blooming in winter in my chilly art studio. Lots of purple, and this is a consistent repeated cycle of color variation I see a lot in my collection with the changes of seasons. We don't commonly see it in orchids as much and they also tend to bloom in set times of the year with less seasonal variation.
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
shavedmonkey (Harvey in South Fl.)Z10b