My Orchids Have Started to Bloom
August 16th 2009 09:06
With Helen's amazing garden post I felt inspired to try and walk outside today after spending 5hrs writing Orble articles. It was then that I realised Sydney did get most of its predicted hot weather today so I walked around my little garden and found that one of my orchids had burst into bloom.
I have no idea at all what type they are or there technical name - I just think they are beautiful.
This one came from my great, but recently absent friend, Carrie and her cool parents. They moved from a mega big backyard house to a unit, known as The Castle, this massive ex castle overlooking the harbour at Mosman - amazing place. But they couldn't take the orchid with them and said it had never really flowered for few years.
I think it was just sitting in the wrong place in their old backyard. I have never changed the soil, I have however orchid fertilised it and water it semi regularly. Placed it next to my front door and I get two or three flowering episodes from it a year. It is also growing its base bulbs and each flowering gives me an extra shoot of flowers. Although this time it only flowered two stalks as opposed to what should be 4 shoots. A stupid bloody pool cleaner guy broke one on his brash walk to get to the pool in the backyard so this week I get an amazing stalk in my bedroom and this one pictured remains at the front yard.
Anyways - I hope this hasn't been too self indulgent
And by the way I am not a mean snob having a dig at pool guys - I sublet an apartment underneath a young couple who rent out the whole property and the real estate pay for the pool guy. And he is in his 50's GODDAMNIT - where is the hot early 20's pool guy from all the Hollywood movies I have watched - damn you all to hell.............
Have a Great Week Peeps
I have no idea at all what type they are or there technical name - I just think they are beautiful.
This one came from my great, but recently absent friend, Carrie and her cool parents. They moved from a mega big backyard house to a unit, known as The Castle, this massive ex castle overlooking the harbour at Mosman - amazing place. But they couldn't take the orchid with them and said it had never really flowered for few years.
I think it was just sitting in the wrong place in their old backyard. I have never changed the soil, I have however orchid fertilised it and water it semi regularly. Placed it next to my front door and I get two or three flowering episodes from it a year. It is also growing its base bulbs and each flowering gives me an extra shoot of flowers. Although this time it only flowered two stalks as opposed to what should be 4 shoots. A stupid bloody pool cleaner guy broke one on his brash walk to get to the pool in the backyard so this week I get an amazing stalk in my bedroom and this one pictured remains at the front yard.
Anyways - I hope this hasn't been too self indulgent
And by the way I am not a mean snob having a dig at pool guys - I sublet an apartment underneath a young couple who rent out the whole property and the real estate pay for the pool guy. And he is in his 50's GODDAMNIT - where is the hot early 20's pool guy from all the Hollywood movies I have watched - damn you all to hell............. Have a Great Week Peeps
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Lara - thanks. I keep changing the water in the vase and chopping off 5mm a day and still no change after 4 days so hopefully I will get a couple of weeks out of them
Ruby - sorry to hear about your brother and what a beautiful thing to remember him by. For the best care of the orchids from my past experience - it's all about position. Once you get that right then let them do their thing. They don't like to be pampered too much. Regular weeding, fertiliser and minimal watering - excpet in summer and voila - they do their thing. I have this one rare purple orchid I got about 12yrs ago from Coles in Surry Hills (believe it or not) - it has cascading flowers when it flowers and last month mum and I broke it up into 8 smaller pots and they are all shooting - I am massively excited. But these ones go sick on me if I so much as pay them attention.
Risa - ignore them and they will show off and grow well to get your attention
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