The Pacific Orchid Expo in San Francisco was held Feb. 26-28 and it was a great show! I took lots of photos per usual, but I definitely tried to zero in on the more unusual and/or new-to-me orchids. My favorite orchid was the Clowesia Rebecca Northern ‘Hill Top’; the delicately fringed pale pink blooms and a sweet ginger scent had me captivated. I included the cymbidium because some of the blooms had white centers while a few were maroon. I thought it was pretty unusual for flowers on the same stalk, as well as the same plant, to look so different.
My husband and I usually buy a bunch of new orchids at the POE since it’s only once a year and there’s such a diverse collection of orchids for sale at reasonable prices. But since it currently takes about 90 minutes to water all of our orchids and we’ve seen a fair amount of “attrition” lately, I decided to focus on caring for what we have. Nathaniel did purchase two new plants which I’ll show in an upcoming post.
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- Clowesia Rebecca Northern ‘Hill Top’
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- unknown cymbidium
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- Dendrobium Amethystoglossum
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- Dendrobium Guerreroi
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- Dendrobium Miyakei x Dendrobium Topaziacum
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- Dendrobium Paskal Kuning ‘Hawaii’
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- Epidendrum Lockhartioides
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- Masdevallia Caudata
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- Myoxanthus species
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- Oberonia Setigera
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- Orchis Graminifolia
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- Polystachya Paniculata
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- Restrepia species Aff. Echo
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- Stenosarcos Vanguard ‘Fireball’
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- unknown
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- unknown
Hi. I am so happy to see that you have the Masdevallia caudava. I just wonder if you can please tell me where to buy it. thx
Hi Elaine,
I don’t own the Masevallia Caudata; it was part of a display at the POE. It looks like the vendor was probably Ecuagenera.
http://www.ecuagenera.com/epages/whitelabel4.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/ecuagenera/Products/PRS0823
Cheers,
lila