Phal White Dream ‘V3’ was just re-potted. I brought it inside. Attempting to keep the flowers botrytis free until the Englewood show. You can see the first signs on the flower top right in the photo below. I’ll remove that one flower, but since the flowers are far from peak bloom, if I can keep it free of additional petal blight it should show well.
I’m really enjoying the first (for me) blooms of Lc. Brasstown ‘Neon Glow’ and Lc Jewel Box ‘Dark Waters’. So I thought I’d share.
The first is lc Brasstown ‘Neon Glow’ This plant is a mutation in the cloning process of Lc Brasstown ‘Lipstick’. It has a purple line around the petals. There is also a line around the edges of the leaves. This has been a tough plant for me to bloom. I purchased it a NBS (Near Blooming Size) about 4 years ago from Bill Fender. This is it’s first successful flowering. I really love it. I can’t tell you how many times I attempted to photograph this flower until I got something close the the actual bloom.
The second bloom is Lc. Jewel Box ‘Dark Waters’. I had Lc Jewel Box ”Scheherazade’ but when I saw the ‘Dark Waters’ I knew I had to have it. This plant was a division of a large well grown plant, and this is it’s first bloom for me.
March Garden Tour
When: Saturday March 10, 2012
Time: 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.
Where: 6312 Ravenwood Way, Sarasota, FL 34243
Who: The Garden and Yard of Sidney and Lucey Finkelstein
Sid and Lucey Finkelstein have graciously offered their garden
for viewing for the enjoyment of VAOS members. The
following is how their VAOS friends, Richard and Sybil
Levien Bushell, have described the garden:
“We think they have a beautiful garden with orchids in
trees and in the ground. In the front yard they have bletillas,
spathoglottis, epidendrum, and other ground orchids.
All are now in full bloom and it is truly a vision in loveliness.
In trees there are cattleyas, dendrobiums, cymbidiums,
phals and paphs, many of which seem to be in bloom
whenever we visit. Sid has set up an ingenious watering
system, using water from the canal, which his plants seem
to love.“
Directions:
[Read to end before beginning travel!]
Take I-75 to exit 213 (University Parkway)
Turn west onto University Pkwy for 1.9 mi
Turn left (south) onto Longwood Run Blvd.
Continue straight onto Del Sol Blvd S
Continue onto Desoto Rd
[Note: Longwood Run Blvd. becomes Del Sol Blvd. S.
which becomes Desoto Road]
Turn right onto Ravenwood Drive for 0.7 mi
Turn right onto Ravenwood Way
#6312 will be straight ahead on the cul de sac.
[Note: This is one of those neighborhoods with confusing
street names of Ravenwood Drive, Ravenwood