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• Still here...
  on Oct 19, 2015 in 2015 flowers greenhouse Laelia Manuvadee Oncidium orchids pictures sincorana Vanda
  It has been a while since my last update. I'm still alive, as are most of the plants. A move of house - which we now own rather than rent - moving the green house and a change of jobs has rather cut into my "free time"; my orchid exploits - and this...
• Stanhopea whittenii - first blooms
  on Feb 10, 2014 in flowers orchids pictures Stanhopea whittenii
  Back in October 2011, I received three small Stanhopea plants as part of an order from Plantae. They've been quietly growing away for the past couple of years. One of them has finally decided to do something "useful" and put out some flower...
• Darwin and the Lost Art of the Naturalist - and Orchids
  on Feb 8, 2014 in blogging darwin orchids science
  Earlier this week, I had a "guest post" published on the travel/ocean science blog Moving Sushi, entitled "Darwin and the Lost Art of the Naturalist", in which I briefly sketch out some of the problems with modern science and how we need to cultivate...
• Not so much "balcony" any more... and other tales.
  on Feb 7, 2014 in moving orchids outdoors pictures
  At the end of November last year, Senior Management and I moved home, from flat-with-a-balcony to house-with-a-garden. This now somewhat negates the title of this blog, but I don't see why that can't just be the name of the blog anyway - it's where t...
• Orchid Flask Review
  on Jul 6, 2013 in orchids pictures flask blogging Dendrobium crystallinum
  Last week, fellow South African orchid blogger David Vaughan, who blogs at http://phalaenopsisspot.blogspot.com, offered to send me a flask of Dendrobium crystallinum to review. I did point out that I was quite inexperienced at deflasking, but he sti...
• Orchids on a Balcony featured on Orchids Made Easy
  on Jun 28, 2013
  The team that runs the website Orchids Made Easy featured my blog on a guest post at their website today, complete with an interview of yours truly. Have a look at here to see the full article. Orchids on a Balcony featured at Orchids Made Easy...
• EPOS Annual May Display - and the Misadventures of Orchid Photography
  on Jun 12, 2013 in EPOS Show may Annual orchids pictures display
  We managed to get to Port Elizabeth after all on the last weekend in May, when our "local" orchid society, EPOS, was having its Annual Display (see previous post). Sadly, although we had a few things in bloom (some paphiopedilums, a dendrobium a...
• Annual EPOS Orchid Display 2013
  on May 24, 2013 in EPOS Show Annual 2013
  Some publicity for our Orchid Society's Annual Orchid Display this weekend, 24-26 May 2013, at the Sherwood Garden Centre in Port Elizabeth. Entry is just R5 and there are orchid potting demonstrations, as well as corsages and orchid plant sales toge...
• Some Angraecoid "first blooms"
  on May 5, 2013 in Sobennikoffia sesquipedale Aerangis distichum luteoalba orchids pictures Angraecum rhodosticta humbertiana
  Some time back, I decided to finally use the coir (coconut husk fibre) planting mats Senior Management bought me for Christmas in 2011 (from a shop called Gady Gady in Krakow, Poland of all places) to mount some plants on. These nifty products are in...
• Dendrobium harveyanum
  on May 5, 2013 in harveyanum orchids pictures Dendrobium
  This is another one of my Dendrobiums that flowered for the first time in 2012 - again, it needed a dry winter "rest" period to trigger the flowering. After seeing the crazy fringed flower edges of Dendrobium harveyanum in flower, I knew I had to hav...

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