Our Cymbidium orchid is putting on another stunning show this year!
I've had another busy weekend in the garden, despite the chilly wind - two overgrown pots of pink phlox dug out, split up and the remaining bits planted up into one big pot, and a similar job done on the Salvia × jamensis "Nachtvlinder" (this time, one pot split between two new ones), plus a bit more pottering and pruning besides. Much more yet to do, but I think that'll suffice for one weekend!
Meanwhile - you know when you're getting old when you realise...
... that this faboo choon was actually Number One in our charts 40 years ago this week! Gulp.
And, to think - just last week we were stood in awe before one of the frock coats he wore around the time of this video...
40 years!!!!!!!!! I'm having a gin and going back to bed on that note.
ReplyDeleteThat orchid must love your house. I adore them, but I never have the patience waiting for them to bloom again. Once bloomed and they are done, how long do you find it takes for blooms again?
This is a temperate orchid, not one of those pretty tropical ones you see in supermarkets everywhere, so much easier to look after. It goes outside into the garden from May to about Hallowe'en!
DeleteAs for flowering, I had this one from a small bulb purchased in Funchal, Madeira in 1996 - and it didn't flower until 2014! It's flowered every year (or two, if it decides to have a rest) ever since, mind you... Buy a mature one, give it the "outdoor treatment" every summer and some food, and don't keep it in a warm room, and you should get similar results. Jx
Those are some good tips, I think I may try my hand at one again. In the winter months, I never keep the house very warm, as I'm hot blooded anyhow, so the house is always on the cool side. The only ones I've had have been ones gifted to me, and heavens knows where they came from.
DeleteI do the same with my gifted green clover. I had one given to me three years ago. It goes out in May and returns indoors in September. It is huge now and had to be divided. I now have two ! Both are currently blooming with little white flowers.
Good luck! Jx
DeleteThat orchid is stunning. You’ve got the touch.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit of a stunner, isn't it? We love it. Jx
DeleteA friend gave me a pretty big cymbidium that he said had refused to bloom. After I coaxed it into flowering, the blossoms turned out to be the ugliest flowers I've ever seen, sort of a brownish mauve with maroon spots. They look like some kind of medical problem.
ReplyDeleteHa! One doesn't grow a Cymbidium for bright tropical-orchid-type flowers, but for its profusion of blooms - hopefully pretty ones. Sorry to hear yours was not that! There are some very lovely ones out there (shades of pink, yellow, white or orange). I am just glad that ours is so eye-catching, since there was know way of knowing exactly what it was when I bought that little bulblet all those years ago. Jx
Delete40 Years ago and that track still spins me right round, baby
ReplyDeleteright round
Like a record, baby, right round, round, round
You spin me right round, baby, right round
Like a record, baby, right round, round, round
"Be careful honey! You've got heels on - you'll fall!"
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