Orchid Man in the United Kingdom

This little guy is one of the Orchid world celebrities. Furthermore It's popularity is increasing in the last years due to it's vigorousness, compact size, but what's the most important, beautiful sequential blooms. Yes, I am talking about the tiny Paphiopedilum Pinocchio which isn't so tiny at all. It has a small, slender frame however and it's certain minute features added to it's reputation of one of the small paphiopedilum orchids. Paphiopedilum Pinocchio comes as an effect of crossing Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum × Paphiopedilum primulinum.Two small paphiopedilum species found in Asia and very popular for their blooms and sequential behavior. It's important to know there are two different sub-types of this hybrid, first is the Pink version and second is Pinocchio "Yellow" which characterizes of having a lime green/yellow flower. Both beautiful in their own way. As I said earlier, the orchid is very vigorous and grows quickly.

Hello my dear readers, I thought I just share in a short post some bits and pieces I have found out recently about some of the orchids I do have. And when I say that I mean my beloved paphiopedilum orchids! Yay! I have two orchids which are a bit of a similar hybrid - a bit. First, is an orchid which I bought from a Polish eBay seller which I know and bought a lot of plants from and was always very happy! And still am just I need to wait for the darn thing to bloom - and also It was a bit of a shoot in the dark, till recently when someone posted online a picture of the orchid which I also have so I now have a clear image of what beauty I am waiting for. Paphiopedilum Grant Szabo  - Paphiopedilum Delrosii x Paphiopedilum primulinum (I didn't know it had a official name!) And the second which I received from a lovely colleague from the Facebook orchid forum to rescue and I also know how it looks like! Yay so happy. Paphiopedilum Delrosi x Paphiopedilum glau

As many of you have noticed on my YouTube channel, I'm not the biggest for phalaenopsis. Don't get me wrong, I like them. I like how long the flowers last for, how big they can be, how much variation you can find in the big shops. I love all that, but they lost the wow effect for me long ago. Beyond that I'm, as I said, not the biggest - except probably a few very striking types which are so beautiful I can't contain myself. Then come the exceptions, rarely I find a phalaenopsis which I really like; and when I say rarely it's almost like once in a year. Or, a few at the same time and then for months and months I won't find anything even remarkably worth attention. However, recently I came accros this beauty, Phalaenopsis Karen Annie, a child of the beautiful phalaenopsis hieroglyphica (one of the phals I want) and not so much beautiful but still interesting phalaenopsis mariae. And what I find mostly striking about this one is that the flowers are in