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mine is still flowering,showing a new bud after shedding the last petals and staminode . The stem is quite stiff,almost looking like a wire,while the plant is just 6 inches high,and a foot across even though the stem is so tall.

it opened yesterday,now a 22 inch stem,and another bud just forming lots of roots popping through the bottom of the pot in the tray.Not a huge flower,about 85 mm across,deep red.

mine is very much a regulated growth...it has a sequence of leaf production lasting about a year and 1/2, flowering sequentially,with no more than 2 flowers on the stalk at any time.This year it has produced 5 flowers since initiation of the inflorescence in March, and today May30, it is in...

my close relative is now 18" high and multifloral

Has to be the most reliable orchid of my 30 or so Cats,phals laelias and phrags

on my 2 phrags, I think of it as aging...once the leaves reach a year , they decay,tip first

my go- to phrag,is in flower again,with several buds coming,in succession.This phrag is,just simply reliable,easy to keep,and a great colour. QF Maria from equagenera

I love Laelia's as a form to identify with....I have nursed a lobata since '93, and it is finally starting to do well..maybe bud next year?

my QF Maria just popped,and multiple buds to come

mine are doing fine,after mistreating them last summer,now they are back in wet tray

I had the same happen last year to my Wanuakee Sunset.Water tray was the answer

I havent figured out how to induce the "legs" to sprout,given that they like to climb out of the tray.

this plant wants to have wet tray situation,as it tries to grow out of the tray,growing in a south facing window,near Niagara Falls,Ontario

mine was from equagenera..just the un-named Waunakee Sunset.

it's funny,my Wauanakee Sunset,has a different growth form,creeping elevated rhizome like spreading, although a similar flower albeit on a smallish size

as an aside on culture of Besseae hybrids, I had grown mine in trays with the pots standing in water.When I stopped that,3 months ago and just watered twice a week,the plants revolted, and started to show growth irregularities in the new buds. So, I have now returned to growing them in trays...

your location suggests you have slightly warmer climate and more intense light...so you need more shade cloth, and a evaporative swamp cooler near your phrags. Perhaps get a sacrificial Besseae hybrid, and stick it in the shadiest bench. Mine seem fairly heat tolerant, but dont react well to...

I dont know if it helps, but my two besseae hybrids just sit in a south facing window, near Niagara Falls, as far as latitude is concerned, and grow in clear pots in a tray,in bark.They just keep doing their thing, with minimal care, and twice a week watering.In the summer, I think, almost too...

wow,.what a beauty. Here, I wait patiently for my C Labiata species rescue, to form a new bud....been waiting sice 1992,but it outgrew fusarium, now doing very well.

very nice form and color