Showing posts with label tolumnia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tolumnia. Show all posts

Saturday, April 15, 2017

No ID tolumnia blooming

I have had this plant for a few years now and it blooms reliably. This year is probably the best so far with the number of flowers. It has bloomed from the last two 'fans' that have matured. One spike each. Does each growth only produce one new growth?  Specimen plants with spikes all over are amazing. I recently just purchased another tolumnia so now I have two in my collection. I like the compact size and they are easy to take care of. When I purchased it it was in a tiny ceramic plant t with charcoal. Now it's in a larger pot with a bark mix.  The leaves are unique. They are a triangular shape and are not flat. I don't remember how long the blooms last.  Gotta enjoy them while they last.
Dirty bloom opening.
The rest opening up.



Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Lyman estate greenhouse orchid sale March 31

There is a sale every few months at Lyman Estate greenhouses. They have some of the oldest greenhouses in America. I've purchased plants a couple times before from the greenhouse. They have unique plants that are hard to find.  There is one greenhouse that contains plants for sale, and you can browse around all the others. Even the nurseries around don't really have the variety they have in the one small area that they have for the sale.

Here's what I got:

Stapelia gigantea
I got it for the huge and amazing strange looking flowers, but I'm afraid of what they will smell like. People say  it smells like rotting flesh. The reason for this is to attract flies as pollinators. 
This one had what looked like rot. So I made a clean cut below and put cinnamon on it. Cinnamon is a natural fungicide. The reason I still purchased this one is that it had the most branches. Is that what they are called? Others just had a large single stem and I figured the more the better. It has been 11 days and I don't see any blackening around the cut, so hopefully that means the plant is healthy.


Dendrobium Enobi Purple Splash
This one only had three small canes but the picture of the flowers lured me in. There is a spike so I'll be able to enjoy the flowers soon. And it's a miniature orchid it helps with my space situation.  I had no trouble finding pictures of the flowers online, but hardly anything about the care. I think it's a warm grower and it's free flowering and doesn't need a winter rest.



Dendrobium mini purple
Compared to the plan above, this one is seems a lot more mature.  You can see the difference in the number of canes. This is also a miniature and has a bloom spike with a few buds.


Tolumnia 'Nalo beauty'
I have one other tolumnia in my collection.  It's in a tiny clay pot that doesn't have any media in it.  But the pot is completely root bound and is a solid mass of roots.  I'm not sure how many roots are actually alive.  The pot is tiny and they don't have pots that small at the big home improvement stores.  So I'll have to go to a craft store to find a smaller pot.  Tolumnias need to dry out quickly so they are mounted a lot.  But mounted orchids are too much work because they require watering a lot more frequently.


My doggie checking out the blooms.  They are not scented, but a dog's nose might detect something.