Mini Cattleya with pastel colour flowering

The mini cattleya with pastel colour is flowering. There were originally 6 flower buds, but 1 stem rotted away. I think the wet weather is a killer. Really like this pastel colour, looks like a painting rather than a real flower. This is the second time it flowered for me since I got it from Woon Leng in Feb 2010.

Dendrobium Flowering

One month ago in May, my dendrobiums started putting out flowering spikes. The mini dendrobium put out 2 spikes while the Dendrobium Cochliodes put out 3 spikes!

This is highly unusual, as the last bloom for the Dendrobium Cochliodes just ended in Feb. If this plant flowers so regularly, it will fast become my favourite orchid!

Had the mini dendrobium for the longest time, and it suffered all kinds of abuse, and got the worst placement in the house. I think it is trying to tell me to shower it with some TLC too.

Orchids putting out flowering spikes

Orchids are putting out flowering spikes. Interesting.

Especially for the Doritis Pulcherrima. I bought it together with a vanda from JB sometime in Feb-Mar 2010, but didn't get to see the flowers in full bloom as they wilted in the hot sun when I was parked at Tebrau City. Also flowering is a mini dendrobium and the dendrobium cochliodes. The dendrobium cochliodes is putting out 3 spikes, and I hope it is as magnificent as the last.

Some flowering orchids

The maudiae and the ascocentrum are flowering.

Orchids from Song and Woon Leng

Finally got to visit Song Orchids and Woon Leng Nursery in the west. And I got these orchids as gifts. Very precious. Very precious.













Got a slipper orchid paphiopedilum maudiae and an interesting large flowering orchid that has leaves of phal from Song, (psychopsis papilio) and a leafless vanilla (vanilla aphylla), a very pretty small cattleya and a orange dendrobium found on the floor from Woon Leng.

Phalaenopsis violacea sumatra

Gave away my jasmine, and the person who collected it, was kind enough to give me a seedling of Phalaenopsis violacea sumatra. Hope it grows into a nice flowering orchid.

Orchids from Johor Bahru

Drove down to Johor to go to Tebrau City, and saw this nursery on the way there. So we stopped there for a while. There are some interesting orchids there.


Since it is so near to Chinese New Year, it's a good idea to get some flowering plants to decorate the house. Got three orchids from the place, 2 cattleyas and a dendrobium.


The Dendrobium is rather striking, due to its dark coloration accentuated with a golden yellow colour. Scoured through the internet, and I think I got a Dendrobium cochliodes.

(Dendrobium Cochliodes)











One of the cattleyas should be cattleya orange nugget, while the other one is a suspected cattleya guttata.

Bought some orchids seedlings from the net

Bought some orchid seedlings from the net.

Dendrobium chryxotumn

Dendrobium Discolor

Brassia Verrucosa

Mounted Brassia Noid??

Orchids from Chiang Mai

Slipper Orchid

Spider Orchid

I think Orchids are amazing plants. They are very hardy, and have some of the most beautiful flowers. I went to a supermall in Chiang Mai, the Central Plaza near the airport. There is this unmanned flower shop at the basement, selling some very nice orchid plants!

Have you ever seen merchandise that are so good and so cheap and so desirable that you absolutely have to buy them? Finally happened to me here.

And they were really cheap! Bought a total of 10 plants, and paid about 30 bahts to 180 bahts for the plants. Most of them cost about 50 bahts, and the most expensive is the Slipper Orchid, or Paphiopedilum Hirsutissimum at 180 bahts. As the shop is un-manned, the kid in the next shop came over to wrap the plants and collect the payment. Didn't manage to get the names and information of all except one of the orchids, (the slipper orchid has a label and picture of the flower with the scientific name) and most of the plants were not flowering. It will be quite interesting to see what kind of flowers they produce.

It's quite a logistical nightmare to bring them back. First, I had to place them on the table in the Chiang Mai hotel room for a few days. Then I had to pack them into my luggage for a domestic flight to Bangkok. Next I had to hang them near the window of the Bangkok hotel room. Then they were packed in the luggage and checked in for an international flight back to Singapore.They had to be wrapped in magazine papers and cushioned by soft cotton clothes in the luggage. On the final leg of the flight, some of them were placed in a shoe box. I was surprised that the plants all survived the rigors of the trip, but they were worth all the trouble.

Here are the pictures of all 10 of them.