May 2015. Asked my family to let me buy my own presents (orchids, naturally!) this year so I finally had a shopping trip to the Prince Edward Flower Market to get my stash! Here's what I got:
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| Dendrobium Spatulata or Antelope Dendrobium |
I love the unique colours and shapes of this dendrobium! I had seen this species in the Singapore Botanical Gardens orchid garden before - the unique twisted petals are so unusual. I particularly like this one too because of the purplish details on the lip and I like the combination of colours with the greyish brown on the petals. Very special. Got it at a reduced price too because the flowers were beginning to drop... a great buy overall - now to hopefully keep it alive!
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| Epidendrum Floribundum x Encyclia cordigera |
Another beautifully unique colour combination on this one - the green petals are so fresh especially when contrasted with the pink. Would never have thought that this was an "epi" as it doesn't have the typical "reed-stem" foliage but the much more normal orchid pseudo-bulb configuration. This also has a really lovely scent which perfumes the area around it!
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| Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi x amboinensis |
This is an unusual Phalaenopsis because it doesn't have the "moth" (or "butterfly" in Chinese) flower shape. But the colouring combination again is very attractive to me - the yellow-brown "tiger" petal colouring with the very bright white almost T-shaped lip. It is also mounted growing upside down. Not sure if that is really it's habit or just the way the person mounted it...
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| Peloric Phalaenopsis |
I didn't take notice of this orchid when I was looking at the mass of plants in the shop because it has very "typical" colouring which I'm not that keen about. But I did a double take when I looked at it more closely! It seemed to be a 3 lipped orchid! After much googling and searching, thinking it was somehow 3 flowers fused together, I finally discovered that it is a sort of mutant Phalaenopsis where the 2 upper side petals mimic the lip. Very bizarre and a bit weird. I wasn't going to actually buy it but they shop lady threw it in free because I bought quite a number of orchids from her. I guess that is because it's not that popular!
Finally, 2 Tolumnia-hybrids which were again being sold very cheaply because the flowers were beginning to fade. I am still in mourning over killing my first very pretty pink tolumnia which I have not been able to replace... I thought I would console myself with these even though they are not as unique :(
Couldn't resist buying some cut flowers too amongst the vast spread I had to walk past on the way to and from buying the orchids...
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| Gerberas |
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| Water Lilies |
Update: Sadly the water lilies didn't open at all and the stems just got very soggy in the water. The shopkeeper told me it needed a lot of water, which I gave it, including spraying it to mimic the humid environment it grows in. But no joy. Next time (if I ever attempt this again) I will have to ask them what the trick is.
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