Comings and Goings

We have had a lot of new plants and given away a lot of plants because we needed to make space! We have had several plants we were always intending to give away once they were big enough or once they came into flower. We ran out space though so some of them went away a little sooner!

Goings:

We gave away the Sharry baby

2 extra Gus orchids

small division of Dendrobium spectabile

unknown cattleya

2 Potnarias that we had potted together in a basket

an extra Dendrobium kingianum

Charlie Brown because it was failing to thrive with us

Seems like there were a couple of other things too, but I can't remember what they were.

New plants:

• Arpophyllum spicatum- which we repotted and has a sheath already- very exciting!
• Cattleya boweringiana that had buds already when we bought it, popped out within a week or so with tons of beautiful flowers.

• Dendrobium thyrsifolium
• LC. Santa Barbara Sunset "Showtime" has a nice big spike on it that is still coming along
• Bulbophyllum careyanum
• a large Dendrobium kingianum. We are leaving it basically outside to get very cold in hopes that it will flower for us in the spring!
• massive Zygopetalum maculatum- we put it in a 14in clay pot. It's huge!
• Dendrobium nobile which isn't in the best shape so we are going to grow it over the winter rather than rest it so it will be stronger for next year. 
• sad little Dendrobium loddigesii which we will also grow this winter to strengthen it rather than resting.
• mystery Dendrochilum. We repotted it this summer and it has gone insane with new growths. It was a good sized plant to begin with but it now has at least 20 new growths and they all seem to have flower spikes in them. We are excited to see what it looks like. Hopefully we will be able to find out what it is.

• Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum var. esquirolei. We decided to give a Paph another try. They were a good deal at the Growers Day event so we got one to try. Of course we left it in reach of bad kitty and it got nibbled. It doesn't seem to have hurt it too much- just made it a bit ugly looking. So far so good. We'll see how long we can keep it alive. I would really like to grow Paphs well. There are some that I really really like. I think the ones I really like though are the harder to grow ones....unfortunate really.