Balcony Orchid Garden: Phalaenopsis Orchids in spike

Late April 2015. The pink Phal has finally opened its first flower!

It seems like all the spikes are taking a long time mature - perhaps because the weather has actually remianed quite cool.

The colour of this Phal varies quite a lot (probably due to the temperature). This is a picture of the flowers from 2 years ago - very different colouring!

Early March 2015. Many of my phals have spikes this year! I think I am finally beginning to understand how to grow phals after killing SO many of them. I realise that I have probably often packed them with too much sphagnum moss when repotting - thus suffocating their roots... I assumed this is what you were supposed to do as they always come like that when you buy them...

My large pink Phal which has survived a number of years with me and has always produced amazing multi-branched spikes, nearly died last year partly because I didn't repot it soon enough (I think) and partly due to damp rot. But it seems to have bounced back very quickly and has just rewarded me with a lovely new strong spike...