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MagicaPractica said:
My favorite so far is the St. John's River Floodplain.
Hi Magica((((Hug)))) :heart: I was going through photos and I found it.....some of those areas are so wide open....Miles of swamp and grass sometimes broken with a cabbage palm or two. The alligators get very large out there... 15 to 20 footers are not uncommon. The St Johns River is the only river to flow north in the lower fortyeight states. There used to be huge stands of cypress with some of the trees having a huge girth. Over a hundred years ago the lumber companies moved through chopping them all down. You can still find isolated stands or trees that were missed by them...but not many. Most cypress trees are young. They actually had boom towns spring up to support the lumber business.....they are all gone now.
ahem...sorry...grin..I got carried away.
 
Kcar said:
Wow. Beautiful shot!

Thank you Kcar :rose: That orchid won best of show at one of the world orchid conferences in Taiwain. It is a clone of that orchid I should say.

I have forgotten how much I like your artwork, I was going through one of your threads the other night admiring the wonderful work you do.....Thank you so much for sharing them with us. :heart:
 
Gi!!!


I am so proud of you!!!! :) :) :)


I am so happy that you have decided to share your wonderful images with everyone!!!


Much Love,


Misty :kiss:
 
Misty_Morning said:
Gi!!!


I am so proud of you!!!! :) :) :)


I am so happy that you have decided to share your wonderful images with everyone!!!


Much Love,


Misty :kiss:

((((((((Misty)))))))) :heart: :heart: I never would have, had you not encouraged me. :kiss: :kiss: Thank you. :)
 
Gi_Venus said:
Hi Magica((((Hug)))) :heart: I was going through photos and I found it.....some of those areas are so wide open....Miles of swamp and grass sometimes broken with a cabbage palm or two. The alligators get very large out there... 15 to 20 footers are not uncommon. The St Johns River is the only river to flow north in the lower fortyeight states. There used to be huge stands of cypress with some of the trees having a huge girth. Over a hundred years ago the lumber companies moved through chopping them all down. You can still find isolated stands or trees that were missed by them...but not many. Most cypress trees are young. They actually had boom towns spring up to support the lumber business.....they are all gone now.
ahem...sorry...grin..I got carried away.

Carry me away my friend. I am a huge Carl Hiaasen fan. :rose:
 
Gi_Venus said:
Thank you Kcar :rose: That orchid won best of show at one of the world orchid conferences in Taiwain. It is a clone of that orchid I should say.

I have forgotten how much I like your artwork, I was going through one of your threads the other night admiring the wonderful work you do.....Thank you so much for sharing them with us. :heart:

It is absolutely gorgeous! I'd love one of my own, but it wouldn't last more than a couple of yrs - and then without a second flowering. :eek: Do you have many of them?

Thankyou, Venus. :eek:

And you with us! ^_^
 
Kcar said:
It is absolutely gorgeous! I'd love one of my own, but it wouldn't last more than a couple of yrs - and then without a second flowering. :eek: Do you have many of them?

Thankyou, Venus. :eek:

And you with us! ^_^

I have not counted in a long time... I have a lot of Phalaenopsis, I tend to collect the smaller growing varieties because I am greedy and want more plants in less space....grin. I also grow Broughtonia sanguniea hybrids because they bloom multiple times a year and are compact... All are grown mostly in doors as house plants. Many commercailly grown plants are potted up in medium that holds moisture too long...I think it helps them to get it to the market place and survive to get to the consumer...but... wet broken down medium will cause the roots to rot. And in watering most people forget that salts build up in the medium too....that will kill the roots...so when watering..allow the plant to become almost completely dry between waterings and when you do water them...water the heck out of them to flush minerals and salts out of the pot. Phals are heavy feeders too...so for fertilizer...it is weekly weakly.
IN short , in nature many orchids are used to a rapid cycle of wet and dry with fairly high humidity in between, the better you can approximate this the better they usually do.
 
Kcar said:
Oh jeezuz...wow. Yummy flowers!! Orchids ROXZORS!
Laughing :kiss: ....that plant took the year off last year...it was fussy for me and finally it is blooming again....I am hopeing to spoil it this year and get a better show next year. Mulitfloras are pretty amazing if you can get them up to their full potential. Some plants can have hundreds of flowers at once....grin...now that has me all antsy....I have many that have this potential...they just grow so slow...tapping my foot impatiently. I have a couple that are genetic super plants with extra chromosomes and the works....grin....one is a baby...I have to wait 3 to 4 years before it will start to bloom in a fashion that will be impressive.
 
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