Self confessed orchid lover

A few years ago I discovered the beauty of orchids and ended up with quite a few. They are just so beautiful to look at, add an amazing splash of colour to the room and last much longer than cut flowers.

I enjoy tending to them, it helps to clear my mind and bring a lot of joy.

Does anyone else have an interest in house plants?

 

I bought 2 more today, is 14 too many

 

Not the best pic but these are my new 2

 

Oh wow, thank you they are stunning

 

I’ll have to take a photo of my mum’s kitchen windowsill when I’m next down there. She has quite a few orchids that I’ve bought her over the years. She finds benign neglect works well. One is still flowering regularly nine years after I got it for her.

 

We've got a fair few plants in the Conservatory, even manage to keep Basil and Parsley alive through the winter in there but Maz bought an Orchid earlier this year so they're new to us, any tips gratefully received although the 'benign neglect' is pretty much the regime that most of the plants get at ours. Although the 'Maidens Hair' Fern in the front room has coped with 25+ yrs of extreme neglect and is still going strong.

 

Plenty of light, not direct sun, water occasionally I use rain water. That is pretty much it, mine are all in clear plastic pots as they absorb light via their roots (apparently) .

 

Both of mine have more open flowers on them

 

Now that is good to know about the clear plastic pot, ours is currently in one but is out-growing it (the roots are starting to grow upwards out of the pot) and we were planning to re-pot it. I knew they needed to be quite 'Pot-bound' but would have probably used an opaque (normal) pot to do so.

Thanks

 

In Sainsburys yesterday they were selling beautiful plants but as it so close to Christmas they were quite expensive, stunningly beautiful though.

 

Until today I didn’t know what an orchid looked like.

I used to live down Orchid Way years ago.