Mar. 26, 2015: I received my first online plant order yesterday from Carter and Holmes Orchids which I'm pretty excited about. This is my first time buying from the internet so I went fairly conservative and bought these two plants, the Laeliocattleya Purple Cascade 'Beauty of Perfume' and the Sophrocattleya June Bug 'Venice Sunshine'. These were very reasonably priced and I think the blooms will be great. I've repotted these as you can see and will be looking forward to seeing some growth that will ensure I've got good roots.
In other news, here's a brief update about some of my other plants. Starting from the top left we have the second of two D. Kingianums I received from Heather Drobus. This one I've decided to name D. Kingianum Bea after my awesome niece. It's been growing the lovely new cane you see which I hope will produce some great smelling flowers for me this year. Next is the D. Spectabile which I decided to check on because it was just not doing anything. Turns out the roots in bad shape and I could barely find any that were alive. Luckily, there is some new growth shown by the tiny root in the photo. On the right we see the Miltassia Toscana which has two new flowers on the short spike. The rest of the flowers from the original spike have dropped. In the middle is a photo of Dennis who is still doing very well. His leaf has grown beautifully with a good purplish tinge. The lower left photo is my trooper Nemo who has three new roots that I hope will stick around this time. My Colmanara Masai has opened almost all of hir flowers and looks awesome. Finally we have a new flower on Valcor, making me a very happy plant lady. Valcor has been showing signs of health with his newest leaf reaching dramatically for the sun and now producing a new leaf.