Orchid Man in the United Kingdom

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Dear all, In this entry I wanted to address the topic of Repotting phragmipedium orchids. And let's face it, it can seem like a daunting task for a beginner or just if you don't know what are the options. Therefore I would love to invite you to the below video where I talk in length about this: https://youtu.be/TFNH32qVYws

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Dear readers, I am incredibly happy to show you how my rare and marvelous Paphiopedilum Bidburough has been doing, and indeed it has done extremely well! You can tell this one has received a lot of awards, including vigor as i call it a weed. It grows like mad and doesn't require any excessive care. I would love to invite you to watch my below video where I talk in length on this: https://youtu.be/mwfCHFUrQaQ

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Dear readers, I am incredibly happy to show you how my rare and marvelous Paphiopedilum Bidburough has been doing, and indeed it has done extremely well! You can tell this one has received a lot of awards, including vigor as i call it a weed. It grows like mad and doesn't require any excessive care. The two flowers are not the only surprise, as it has produced 4 in total this year and they are just opening now. Which is surprising. I can say the double spike is slightly shorter than the single one I had last year, but then the third that is just opening now is taller than both of these ones. Interesting indeed.

Dear readers, I am so happy to provide an update on my Tropical Pointer "Galaxy". And an apology for my earlier post about the care on this guy. Why? Well for 3 years I have been growing this plant with no result, till i had only one choice - neglect the hell out of this plant. Almost literally, so it went out on the balcony from April till late October, and experienced a lot of temperature changes and especially the late summer and autumn drastic drops down to 10C and even lower as the last weeks it was around 8 degrees Celsius. And that was the time when i noticed the sheath has buds in. As you can see the result is stunning and I am more than happy with this beauty. No longer I have been thinking this will be going on sale. I think the biggest reason for me to keep this for so long, it was a birthday gift from my other half and i decided to do my best to make this bloom.

I'm a bit of a snob, truly. I like my hybrids with a name, unless there is something i picked up at random and I failed miserably to discover it's name - then it's OK. But in this case i purposely went to Orchideen Wichmann, one of my favorite German orchid nurseries to find something special for myself for Christmas. And indeed I have, this compact beauty which name's a mouthful is a result of very successful hybridization from the old hybrids. The exact hybrids are Paphiopedilum Lancer, Paphiopedilum Blagrose and famous Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill "Redoutable" The hybrid lost the spotting but it gained the magnificent waterfall pattern on the dorsal pouch and deep deep magenta/purple color. The size of the flower is descent and sits in almost 7 wide and 6 inches high. I say almost as I am sure some results of the same cross may be bigger or smaller, the magic of paphiopedilum crossing and not cloning. As I have mentioned earlier this is a compact