Odontonia Pacific Paranoia ‘Other ...
Purple, everyone loves purple. Although surprisingly my local orchid society members preferred Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’ over Odontonia Pacific Paranoia ‘Other Side Of Kool’ when I took a display plant of each in last year! Apart from that little hiccup I’ve found most prefer purple and it’s a colour that some Oncidium intergenerics do very well. Pacific Paranoia is a hybrid between Miltonia Honolulu and Odontoglossum (old genus name) bictoniensis, which is also a parent to Odontocidium Everglades Elegance ‘Nancy Lee’. ...
Odontocidium Everglades Elegance ‘...
This has to be one of my favourite orchids. Nice big fat pseudo bulbs with lime green foliage producing bolt upright spikes carrying 100 plus flowers in a big feather duster like display. Another Oncidium intergeneric that will spot flower almost year round, but does tend to mostly flower from late January to April in our climate. One very appealing aspect of the flower spike is the habit of all the side branches to be upright beside the main stem, giving the overall flower spike this feather duster type of display. This is very different from most branching flower...
Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’
Big, small, I love them all. Today small is cute and makes a great windowsill or tabletop display in the form of Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’ growing nicely in an 80mm pot. As you can see from the photos that’s not a big pot, but boy is it putting on a display. Now just a quick pointer for anyone that has purchased one of our 80mm Alosuka’s, it will most likely grow for another 12 months in that pot before it needs potting up. One of the hardest things to learn about growing your orchids is when not to over pot them.