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Dendrobium glomeratum in the Orchid Display House |
I'm nominating
Dendrobium glomeratum, along with
Dendrobium dearei and
Dendrobium unicolor, in the category Most Dependable Flowering Orchid. Our plants flower almost continuously.
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Laelia anceps variety in the Orchid Display House |
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Maxillaria sophronitis cloaking a tree stump in the Tropical High Elevation House |
Mat-forming orchids like
Maxillaria sophronitis are terrifically useful as an element in a tropical landscape. I've taken many divisions from our hanging basket and pinned them to different vertical surfaces.
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Coelogyne mooreana in the Tropical High Elevation House |
Four of these
Coelogyne flowering simultaneously are producing a wonderful lemony-vanilla fragrance int the Tropical High Elevation House.