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I don't grow Vanda. I mean, I am quite reckless, but really.... This poor thing is wintering on the windowsill in the hope that I can keep it going through the winter.
I have no idea of the colour - it was marked down at Tamar View Nursery, and I bumped into it on a reckless day. This may easily be its first and last appearance on these pages,
unless global warming moves us to the sub-tropics in the next three or four months, and flowers are rather less likely than flying pigs...and hope springs eternal...
and orchis is latin for testicle, so bollocks! I was astonished that it not only survived the winter, but flowered. There hasn't been a great deal of new growth, but some slow progress has been made. It flowered for the second year running. I doubt it will flower next year, because I left it in the greenhouse too long in autumn and it got a chill but hopefully not a fatal chill. I was overly optimistic, it died. |
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| 16th december 2006 | ||
