Orchid Man in the United Kingdom

Hello dear readers. Yes, there is an orchid like that and no I haven't been joking because i seen it sell for sums up to £2000 for beautiful mature speciments. I'll start with a picture - usually I don't start with a picture but this is a special case. Cattleya Warsewiczii or Gigas is an orchid of old. Called such because this species has it's history back in the 1900 in the golden era of Orchid discovery. But the history traces this one back to 1850 when H.G.Reichenbach decided to name a peculiar orchid with enormous flowers in honor of his dearest friend Polish botanist Joseph Warsewicz. Then things got a bit complicated because a certain Jean Jules Linden in 1873 published a separate publication naming this orchid Cattleya Gigas and pro-actively spreading the news. However incorrect and against the correct classification the growers took in the name Cattleya Gigas taking little notice of the correct horticulture classification.  Originally the orchi...

Hello my dear readers, I decided to write this article because of first of all my own experiences and then your own. Statistically guessing on this world there will be at least 5 or maybe 10 people wondering what is the difference between the complex hybrid and the American hybrid, and then there will be another 5 wondering why their American hybrid from this shop isn’t the same as their best friends from another one. Gezz… such confusion in the sentence alone! But be brave my friends you are not alone. First of all let’s recall what are Pahiopedilum orchids? Besides being outstandingly beautiful, alien and exotic they are also quite complex and different from the normal Phal. We may encounter in Tesco or other big store. They are terrestrial orchids growing on the bottom layer of the forest floor, preferring shadier positions with good humidity and quite a lot moisture. They are very much different from other orchid species as their labellum has in time changed into...

Hello all, As you probably recall from my previous post; Miltoniopsis - Why so serious?; i have raised a discussion on these beautiful orchids. I have a small bug towards them and they always catch my eye whenever I see them in a nursery, good or bad if they are nice I'm glued to them. Nevermind this, up to updates. The Miltoniopsis Herralexander is growing really well and quickly, the two growths it had are quite tall now, more that 8 inches both, some creased leaves but hey i can imagine it got shocked when i had to re-pot it to a totally new media and the summer was stupidly hot and humid. On the other had Miltoniopsis Newton Falls; the stunning deep red orchid is growing rather well too, in the same old media of bark and it doesn't have any creases - it its perfect and I mean damn! Perfect! But it's wobbly, again damn you bark! Note to myself this hybrid takes a 4 months break over summer to sit there and do nothing, to wake up in autumn and grow quickly. Around...