PSLOS Orchid Show pictures

This past weekend The Port St Lucie Orchid Society had its 15th annual Orchid Show and Sale. Being new to this plant and flower thing this is my first orchid show and all I can say is WOW! They had some outstanding floor displays, and the vendors designed tabletop displays set up all through out the room. I have a few pictures of the displays. I can not believe how extraordinary orchids are. The many varieties and each one has its own characteristics from the different fragrances, sizes, colors, and pedals. I made some adoptions expanded the collection but those will come later. So for now here are those shots of the show. Click on the picture for a large shot so you can see some of the many different varieties.

Pictures of My Little Paradise

Here is a guided tour of my little piece of paradise. I have taken shots of all sides and a few others of some pretty neat stuff on the property besides all the orchids that are growing that I showed on some older posts. I am going to start with the SE corner standing from the road you come in on. This is the part that is nice with grass an some monster live oak trees. Then I follow the road around the south side to the west side of the property. These are the first 4 pictures.
Now the St. Lucie River runs along the north side and east side of the property, although the east side is only 1 or 2 ft deep. So shot 5 is were the main part of the river branches off and comes under the road into the neighborhood. Then the next 3 shots are of the north side that the little branch follows and then opens up to the large area of water. When I was a kid I slid my canoe down there and fished almost everyday. Then the next 2 are the overgrown east side. Then a few of the interesting shots. Standing under the palm trees, a shot of 2 oak branches from separate trees that have grown together and my little brothers house is in the back round, a palm tree that had to squeeze between the V of an oak branch. You can see the scars from it rubbing the branch as it grew on thru. Then some wild boar or hog rootin' and a few of the over growth.

New Seedling Stand

Tonight I went back and visited my woodworking buddy J-Lead_LO and we built this stand to hold the seedling pots all together. It is so nice to have everything in 1 place to get things done. This stand took all of 45 minutes to build from scratch. Started as just a few cedar planks and 45 mins later all 100 of the seedling pots have a home. They came with these collars to hold them but no supports to keep them together. So we connected all the collars together and mounted them to the stand. I will have shots of the palm seedlings posted later this week. All of these little projects are coming together.

I saved this 1

A few weeks ago I was doing a moving job for a lady and this poor little orchid was just sitting in a window sill. All dried up and looking very dead. She was going to toss it so I brought it home. All I know about it is the pot has a sticker calling it a Phalaenopsis. I am so upset with myself for not snapping a few shots of it all dried out. Today I just noticed a new spike, cane, stem not sure what it is called yet, growing out of the side of it. In just a few short weeks it back to life. It makes me feel so good to bring plants back after so many years of my life i have spent killing them.

5 New Orchids added to the collection

These are the other new orchid purchases from gardenfest this past weekend. We have 5 new babies to take care of now and begin to watch them grow. I could sit here and type all of the names out but I have provided a visual aid instead. As these orchids grow and flower i will keep posting new photos of them of course. So here they are.

New Seeds from Thailand

Today I received in the mail some seeds that I purchased on 12/18/07. They were sent from Maung Phuket Thailand so the wait was understandable. I ordered 10 and received 11Tersmannia altifrons, the Joey Palm, which is 1 of my favorites and ordered 20 and got 46* score, Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, Bottle Palms. They also came along with a Phytosanitary Certificate. The best part of the whole situation is the man wrapped the joey seeds in a wet paper towel and then sealed them in a container wrapped in plastic wrap. When I opened the package to my surprise 3 of the seeds had already begun to germinate. Double Score!