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Miltassia Estrelita ‘Sweet Senorita’
This post is for all of the orchid lovers who have purchased one of our big 7 inch (175mm) pot Sweet Senorita orchids over the past 7 weeks. This orchid is also my dear makuakine’s favourite flower, big bold and bodacious like her. This orchid is one that we have found just gets better as it gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger! For all who purchased one and struggled out of the nurseries with them, all that weight is in the plant as the potting mix is quite light. One client even mentioned how she saw a little old lady walking out...
read moreAzure Kingfisher
We have quite the bird life around the property, everything from the small Wrens to the occasional Wedgetail Eagle that soars on the thermals. The office windows are sometimes mistaken as being a through passage and every so often a poor bird is left sitting outside the office stunned as to why he couldn’t fly through. This isn’t always the case, as the Willy Wagtail likes to sit on the outside chairs and sing to his reflection, or the Eastern Yellow Robin will have a hissyfit at his reflection during mating season. Just last...
read moreBulbophyllum tingabarinum ‘Sunset’
One of the great things about orchids is that there are so many types, with varying flowers, colours, growth habits and sizes. Now although this website is more for what we have in production, I have added this miscellaneous category to put in posts on various orchids that I see in my travels. Some are strange, some odd, some only their mother would love, but they all belong to this wonderful world of orchids that I hope you enjoy and find fascinating. Now on my recent travels to Hawaii I visited the Hilo Orchid Show where orchids were...
read moreDecember 2014
Wow, what a year. I’m probably not the first to say where did it go. First off one of the big achievements for this year was getting this website up and running, and I hope that this post will kick off my regular posting of information and happenings around the nursery. My intention is to post photos and information on the different varieties that we produce, all of which will be catalogued in the blog section of the website, so that if you have brought that variety you can look at all of the posts for that particular variety from...
read moreMiltassia Charles M. Fitch ‘Izumi’
This is a hybrid between Brassia verrucosa and Miltonia spectabilis registered back in 1961 by C. M. Fitch. Izumi is a recent cultivar that originated out of Carmela Orchids in Hawaii and was first awarded back in 1997. Now anyone that looks at the awards for all Charles M. Fitch will quickly realise that prior to 1987 few put more than 5 flowers on a spike. The two awards after 2004 are both peloric forms of Izumi with 6+ flowers per spike. Izumi rises above this with a flower count of between 10 to 14 flowers per spike on a mature...
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