vanda coerulea semi-water culture

Loving this baby. First bloom. Have had now four years? Very slow growing for me but otherwise seems happy. I love it. The laterals are flexed more forward than seems apparent in most photos, like it’s reaching to pick up a small child. I have been so envious of the beautiful helenae herein and...

Thrilled to present this first-flowering after 3 years growing in from deflasked Vanda coerulea sib. X self from Orchids by Hausermann in Villa Park, IL. Since reading about the species 30 years ago, I have been dying to see one in flower. Not the flat-petaled modernized line-bred flowers but a...