WaterGirl generously shared some photos from her OTR files. This week’s gift of color and warmth from Laura M:
These are from Gainesville Florida October 19th 2024 orchid show at Kanapaha Gardens.
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I got a batch of garden catalogs around Thanksgiving, but the big high-intensity sales pitch books just started showing up in the past few days. Right now, they’re only giving me the urge to cut back!
What’s going on in your garden (planning / retrospectives), this week?
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Thank you for the reminder of the beauty still in the world, I really appreciate all the work the front pagers do on this blog and all the talent all the contributors share with us.
eclare
Such colorful flowers, thank you!
J.
I love orchids! Looks like a good show.
kalakal
So very beautiful. Thank you.
JPL
The orchids are a reminder that there is still beauty in the world. The next few weeks will be a test so remember to just look forward past the ugliness. It’s 19 degrees here so not even a weed is happy today.
Jeffg166
My cleaning up the garden is on a pause. The weather seems to be doing a lot of the clean up for me as there seems to be less dead vegetation as it disintegrate on its own.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
JeanneT
I got my native plant catalog from Prairie Moon a few days ago. I don’t have a big area ready to plant yet, but I can tuck some natives in among my perennial beds. Milkweed and asters and goldenrod are high on my list.
Planetjanet
Magically, all four of my orchids are blooming at the same time. Two of them are rather prolific, but the velvety red one is quite finicky. On top of that 4 of the 5 violets and the kolanchoe decided to bloom. The real treasure is my great grandmother’s Christmas cactus is abundantly blooming as well. It had been blooming in April for several years. Maybe they just know I need the beauty. Time to take the amaryllis out of hibernation for a fine coda to a cold, snowy winter.
Planetjanet
@rikyrah: Good morning, rikyrah! Great to see you.
p.a.
Lovely. Thanks!
WaterGirl
I especially love the orchid that won first place. Such a beautiful color. Just stunning!
Miss Bianca
Glorious!
Madeleine
Especially gorgeous to me are the orchids on photos 4 and 6–the two in bright bright pink with dark red/purplish.
Thank you for Ozarks’s beautiful frost flower, WaterGirl.
WaterGirl
@Madeleine: Thank you. It’s Sunday, and Ozark should be here.
stinger
Thank you, Laura M, for the photos. Orchids come in such an amazing array of forms and colors; so lovely.
And thank you, WaterGirl, for one of Ozark’s astonishing ice flowers. I live rural and have never seen anything like them!
I’ve been going wild ordering more David Austin roses, as well as a few “companion” plants, mostly from White Flower Farm. I live between a wooded area and a river, so deer traffic is heavy as they move down to the river twice a day to drink, then head back home. It greatly restricts what I can plant without tall fence protection. Luckily, they don’t like lavender, or other smelly plants such as alliums, and don’t seem to bother daylilies, iris,or hyacinths, and of course most prairie natives can be grown outside fenced areas. They eat tulips but not daffodils, which I find odd!
MCat
Thank you for these gorgeous photos! I love orchids. Says they’re from an orchid show at the Kanapaha Gardens. Kanapaha would make a great name for a cat, a reflection of their majesty. Now I need to go out and get more orchids.
stinger
@MCat: I thought you were going to say, “Now I need to go out and get more cats”! LOL