Orange flowers seem a little unorthodox for a Phalaenopsis, but they’re lovely just the same. I might try crossing with a standard pink and white, a long-term project but who knows what would result? This year this one is flowering on a new winter spike, and off last year’s spike at the same time. It seems that these flowers are always relatively small.
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Phalaenopsis, blotchy purple
Now the spring flowers are starting, on new stems that shot in early winter. The first winter in the mini greenhouse seems to have given big flowers, although a few buds fell. I wonder whether losing buds is due to the occasional over-warm day in there. I like this one for its semi-random, asymmetric blotches.
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