Thread: Stanhopea orchid for christmas

Very, very nice

There must be something weird happening in the Stanhopea world. Our Stanhopea is flowering too - we've had it for 10 years and its only given us a couple of flowers in that time but now there are 8 of them poking out of the bottom of the basket. A neighbour has a whole bunch of Stans growing in baskets and they are all flowering prolifically like yours. I've never seen his throw more then a handful of flowers previously.

Perhaps its some combination of weather conditions that have triggered such profuse flowering. Our's is flowering on the Central Coast so I guess the same weather as Newcastle more or less.

His are the same species as yours. Ours is slightly different (different species or different hybrid).

I'm always surprised that more people don't grow Stanhopeas - or even know what they are. They are such a novelty, but so easy to grow you almost cant kill them. I picked ours up out of the local council clean up - someone had thrown it out thinking it was dead. Now after 10 years of neglect at our place its flowering. Its never been repotted or fertilised or been bothered by any type of pest or had any special requirement - I wish other orchids were so easy.

cheers
Arron

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Another really nice orchid photo - good stuff.

Cathie grows orchids - might see if I can take a photo - but won't be as good a shot as the rest of you.

Keith