JeanLux
Well-Known Member
6:30 Luxembourg time; I finally did it with the help of Candace and the admins. Thank for that.
I am 58, with wife and 2 grown-up kids. I am a(n almost retired) 1st generation Bank IT-guy.
I started with orchids some 20 years ago, but I think I got the fever much earlier, at the age of 20 (+/-), when being allowed to visit the greenhouses of a gardencenter where one of my friend used to work. The was one house filled up with large Cattleyas!! in mind, I still have the fantastic view of these hundreds of white and pink flowers (maybe less then hundred? ? , anyway); I was stunned, and told me that, one time in the future, I would also be able to...; today I have a veranda greenhouse with +/- 500 plants. Nevertheless, I still do not consider myself as an big expert, I am able to have them living and growing, but not all of them decided to flower yet.
Cattleyas and alliance form the larger part of my collection, but there are quite some other genera, Coelogyne, Vandas, some Dendrobiums, some africans, and of course Paphios and Phragmipediums.
As a Luxembourger, I am proud to have some Phalaenopsis lindenii, Phragmipedium lindenii (did not yet flower!), Phragmipedium schlimii (did not yet flower!): I do consider those people Jean-Jules Linden and his half-brother Louis-Joseph Schlim, both born in Luxembourg, as my compatriots.
I wanted to be a member of this forum, not only to bring input and show pictures of my plants, but also to ask questions, because there are still a lot of them!
Here some of my orchids, actually blooming: the species name is part of the photos title.
You see that there is already a 1st question: this Phrag. is a schlimii? or a Hanne Popow or some different hybrid?
Boff, this was hard for a first posting: (07:30)
I am 58, with wife and 2 grown-up kids. I am a(n almost retired) 1st generation Bank IT-guy.
I started with orchids some 20 years ago, but I think I got the fever much earlier, at the age of 20 (+/-), when being allowed to visit the greenhouses of a gardencenter where one of my friend used to work. The was one house filled up with large Cattleyas!! in mind, I still have the fantastic view of these hundreds of white and pink flowers (maybe less then hundred? ? , anyway); I was stunned, and told me that, one time in the future, I would also be able to...; today I have a veranda greenhouse with +/- 500 plants. Nevertheless, I still do not consider myself as an big expert, I am able to have them living and growing, but not all of them decided to flower yet.
Cattleyas and alliance form the larger part of my collection, but there are quite some other genera, Coelogyne, Vandas, some Dendrobiums, some africans, and of course Paphios and Phragmipediums.
As a Luxembourger, I am proud to have some Phalaenopsis lindenii, Phragmipedium lindenii (did not yet flower!), Phragmipedium schlimii (did not yet flower!): I do consider those people Jean-Jules Linden and his half-brother Louis-Joseph Schlim, both born in Luxembourg, as my compatriots.
I wanted to be a member of this forum, not only to bring input and show pictures of my plants, but also to ask questions, because there are still a lot of them!
Here some of my orchids, actually blooming: the species name is part of the photos title.
You see that there is already a 1st question: this Phrag. is a schlimii? or a Hanne Popow or some different hybrid?
Boff, this was hard for a first posting: (07:30)
