I’ve managed to get my oldest and tiniest orchid to bloom again this year. It cost me €.50 and came in a nice purple votive candleholder. I figured that even if it died, I’d have a candleholder.
The blooms are about thumbnail sized! Very damn hard to photograph.
I’ve got two others still in bloom, and more spikes up and coming.
Looks more yellow when the blooms are fresh. Also dammed hard to photograph.
Likely my favourite. It’s been around a couple of years but I got it going this year!
Hope you enjoyed and sorry for the lack of detail about them. I’m struggling to do fun things lately!
heretherebespiders 
Wow. Well done! It isn’t easy to grow and cultivate them and the pictures are really quite beautiful. I find them so unsual, they remind me of aliens for the most part and I could easily imagine them wandering about, nodding to one another on Mars.
As you do. Hahahahaha.
– Esme smelling the perfume and waving upon the Cloud
I feel the same! My favourite flowers are the ones that look like they are possibly sentient.
Beautiful and delightful. Reminds me of you. Hugs
Oh, great. Now my cat is going to be miffed that we don’t have elegant flowers worthy of her…she’s pretty annoyed we have trouble keeping her pot of cat grass greens and not flat.
Really amazing flowers and pictures
Lovely photos! I don’t know if it’s intentional or WP playing silly buggers, but the images came out absolutely humungous at this end, so the pictorial detail made up for any lack of words 🙂 I like to tell myself that whatever ugliness and particular hell life is dishing up at present, at least there are still flowers….
Yeah, seems there was another WP update and it looked all funky on my end too. I didn’t resize them at all, I better do that.
I did a post yesterday and someone complained my blog looked all weird, but not everyone, so who knows what the deal is. Actually, I loved your gorgeous outsize blooms!
Orchids are my wife’s ”thing” and she goes into rapture when one of them begins to bud!
Re: the sizing thing.
Why not try stepping back a little and give the flower a bit of room so it doesn’t completely fill the frame? Just a suggestion.
I had the photos too big. And trust me, the less of the background the better, I struggled like hell with towels, etc to give a decent backdrop and it was horrible.
You have an amazing green thumb.
Beautiful orchids:)
Those are some great photos, spiders!! My orchids are budding now, but nobody’s blooming yet. You give me hope!!