jungle in the bronx

[cnycharles]

well, it's not quite the bronx but manhattan, but with the wild cats and long green leaves everywhere, you could be easily fooled. I visited with nyeric at his apartment, and took some pictures of plants with cool foliage and flowers. It was interesting seeing all the different orchids, though most are phrags and paphs

cool leaves of paph hainanense

cool leaves of paph superbiens var. curtisii

flowering paphs bellatulum and niveum

flowering paphs esquirolei and paph (eric will have to remind me)

eric will have to fill in the name of the cats

trigonidium major

phrag Inca Rose 3N (besseae 'rob's choice' am/aos x pink panther 'pink eye')
eric thought that this was one of the best hybrids of this type; most every flower
has been very nice

side view

more pics in reply posts

 

[cnycharles]

part two

more pics

phrag pearcei flower

eric's tub of mexipedium

pleuro. quadrifida

oncidium or tolumnia (?), didn't see tag

view out south window (south end manhattan), check out the roof gardens

baskets of tolumnias

more south window view; courthouse and civic center + to
the left side

also south view; new trade center tower under construction

 

[cnycharles]

part three

even more pics

tolumnia 1 from basket

tolumnia 2 from basket

cleisocentrum gokusingi flowers (they are tinted blue)

paph magic lantern leaves

paphs (in bud), second yellow paph in flower and flowering
paph esquirolei

tub of slipper seedlings (mostly)

flowering malaxis latifolia

closeup

the one couch pictured was full of plants, but the other one was completely open
I was actually surprised that during my first five steps into the apartment, I didn't see a single plant!

 

[Rick]

Eric's always complained about never getting a bloom out of hirsutissimum/esquirolei. Is that the division I traded with him a year ago?

 

[Ron-NY]

nice tour! Great blooms! Great view! Envious of the rooftop greenhouse in view!

 

[Heather]

I'm surprised the orchids aren't bothered by the cats. Maybe the cats are just overwhelmed and don't know where to begin chewing!

 

[cnycharles]

I was told by eric's friend that there was a third younger cat that did knock things around, so had to find a new home. The two adults love to roam through them, but don't really do anything to the plants

there were lots of rooftop gardens down below, but too spread out to get them all in one picture. the most interesting spot I saw was where there were two lawns, plus a row of magnolia trees in bloom

 

[eOrchids]

It was nice to tour NYEric apartment jungle through another ST member point of view. Thanks Charles!

 

[goldenrose]

nice tour! Great blooms! Great view! Envious of the rooftop greenhouse in view!

I agree on all points!

 

[NYEric]

Wow! My photo skills have improved sharply!

 

[phraggy]

Look like very good paphs Eric -- and the other orchids don't look too bad neither!!!

Ed

 

[Dido]

nice pics thanks for sharing,
this could not be all plants.........

 

[NYEric]

Thanks. I was surprised that Charles didn't post fotos of the terrestrials, habenarias, etc coming up. i think some of the Aussies are coming back even.
We call the 2 cats Fatty and Baddy!
Sorry Rick, I killed off that full pot of hirsuit you sent me, I should have separated them out and crown rot got them. This one is from Springwater and the leaves are much bigger.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

It is interesting to see another point of view of such a famous locale.

I love the magic lantern in the basket - it looks perfect. I think I'll have to put a couple of my rambling parvis in baskets this year and see if they grow better. They must like a large root run.

 

[cnycharles]

Thanks. I was surprised that Charles didn't post fotos of the terrestrials, habenarias, etc coming up. i think some of the Aussies are coming back even.

oh; I didn't even see them, sorry (or else I forgot that you pointed them out)

nice pics thanks for sharing,
this could not be all plants.........

definitely not! large numbers were unphotographed; my camera memory card is far too small to get them all!

 

[NYEric]

The Magic Lanterns are ridiculous runners! they even have roots growing between the leaves, very beastly, so I added media onto the growths.

 

[NYEric]

nice pics thanks for sharing,
this could not be all plants.........

Yes, that's all the plants. Wont you have pity and send me some more! oke:

 

[abax]

That must be one large apartment for Manhattan! Love the pussycats and
the hell you much go through to keep all those watered. I don't think I'll
complain about watering the gh this summer.

 

[NYEric]

We spray all the plants with aerial roots twice a day and water every other day. most of the Phrags are growing in trays of circulating water. The apartment is typical dry.

 

[Justin]

Wow! My photo skills have improved sharply!

I was about to say that!