BTW - I took a few days off of posting due to life 🤣

White corsage orchid flowers

I have 2 clones of this orchid. I left this outside to flower but the snails or slugs are making a meal of the flowers 🤬

Cattleya Alice DuPont ’Waldor’ HCC/AOS

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Red miniature orchid flower with yellow tips on the lower petals

I enjoy growing these miniature orchids. These like cool moist conditions with low mineral water

Dendrobium cuthbertsonii var. Pepe

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Tax day made me forget to post a pic today. I am getting in with 19 minutes left in the day 🤣

Cattleya Arctic Star 'Snow Queen'

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Wikipedia suggests that blue pigment requires tricky chemistry that only some plants have managed to figure out

I do too- I almost bought that one

White Dendrobium orchid flowers with touch of yellow in the throat of the labellum

These smell so nicely

Dendrobium nobile hybrid (NoID)

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Basics of blue flower colouration - Wikipedia

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There are examples of green and blue flowers but I think blue is rarer. I don’t know why blue is so rare.

Yellow moth orchid flowers with a red labellum

Yellow seems to be a color many flowering plants reproduce nicely (unlike blue!)

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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White Dendrobium orchid flowers with purple tips on the petals and labellum

I love the color combination on these flowers

Dendrobium nobile hybrid (NoID)

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Coral red moth orchid flowers

This was a nice colored Phalaenopsis orchid

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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Looks fantastic 🌱📷

I think you are correct

Long live tentacle like emerging leaves of a palm fronds gathered in upright fashion

🚫 orchid
I always find these new palm fronds looking more like an animal than a plant
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Golden yellow orchid flowers on an upright spike

The color on this orchid was very enticing

Oncidium hybrid (NoID)

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Zygopetalum orchid flowers with lime green petals marked with brown spots and a white labellum that has dark purple towards the center of the flowers

Another orchid I regret not buying now that I am looking at the photo again

Zygopetalum hybrid (NoID)

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Light purple moth orchid flower with darker purple veining pt

A neighbor left this orchid outdoors all winter and it survived the low 40s F nights to flower again 😱

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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Pair of white corsage orchid flowers on with touch of yellow in the throat of the labellum

I’m a sucker for white Cattleyas

Cattleya Alice DuPont ’Waldor’ HCC/AOS

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Queen Beer has a really bright magenta color. It’s very cute 👍

Magenta moth orchid flowers

When I first became aware of orchids, I thought this color was amazing - it’s still amazing but I can resist buying these 😉

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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Coral red and orange Dendrobium flowers

Another orchid for my virtual collection

Dendrobium hybrid (NoID)

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Very pretty 🌱📷

🤣 I had one which I killed promptly with negligence

Yes 👍
I’d have so too many orchids if I bought every orchid I liked 😉

Zygopetalum orchid flowers with green petals with maroon spots and a labellum with a purple base and pink lip

I like seeing other than Phalaenopsis orchids at the store

Zygopetalum hybrid (NoID)

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Definitely, if it was fragrant I would have snatched it right up 😆

Moth orchid flowers with very heavy burgundy veining pattern overlaid on a almost fully covered yellow background

Sometimes I regret not buying and an orchid when I post the picture here

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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Moth orchid flowers with white petals heavily overlayed with maroon spots and patterns

Add another orchid to my virtual collection

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

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Looks like you’re a natural at it. 😉 I see the grow light so you’re more knowledgeable than the average orchid grower 👍📷🌱