Visit to Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Gardens

Late April 2015.

A bit late in Spring for a visit but still had a enjoyable time checking out the flora and more importantly, the orchids... (Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Gardens)

Epidendrum Fulgens

NoID Hybrid Cattelya Clone

Bulbophyllum-Cirrhopetalums

#1 - Bulbophyllum Lepidum

Mid April 2015. After years of not flowering, this Bulbo has now produced about 8-10 spikes!  Here are the 4 latest ones...

Bulbo #1 - Bulbophyllum Lepidum

Dendrobium aphyllum / pierardii

Vandas

Mid April 2015.  Finally took out the last baby Vanda (Ms Joaquim) from its sealed container and am nursing all the babies together...

As its been quite blustery, I've created a mini-greenhouse protector for when its particularly windy and for night time...

The 2 babies which I had out before have produced tiny new leaves and roots so I hope this means they are reasonably happy...

Dendrobium Unicum

April 2015.   I had very little expectations for this plant especially when its leaves started to drop but it has surprised me and started to put out what I think are spikes at the nodes of the pseudobulb/stem.

Maxillaria

Mid April 2015.  So after much anticipation over the NoID maxi, it finally flowered and it turns out to be a Tenufloria as well!  I find this totally intriguing as it has a completely different growing habit to the other one, has had very similar treatment and conditions and yet it has only now decided to bloom!

It has a much denser arrangement of the PBs - so dense that there is barely any space for the flowers...

The other Tenufloria, on the other hand, has much "looser" growth, with almost stem-like projections... It has a profusion of buds emerging now!

One things for sure, when all those buds open, the flat is going to have a strong smell of coconut!!

Zygopetalum

April 2015.  The plant was beginning to overflow out of its pot so I decided to repot it. Found it was completely root bound so decided to split the plant into 3.

I was a bit worried that I had been too heavy handed with the removal of the roots and splitting the plants but I'm now very surprised to find that the new shoots seem to be sending out spikes.  Not sure if that is a good thing or not!

Gastrochilus hainanensis

Early April 2015.  The blooms are now fully opened and I managed to use the pano setting to capture the all the flowers in one shot.