The 2011 year orchid

Very unusual Aleyna...beautiful

Thank you Motinot

beautiful.

Thank you Bik.

Is it just me or do the flowers look like cats' heads?
They're fabulous, Aleyna!

Mouldy... confess yourself... you ARE a cat lover... lol
Thank you for the comment.

Cats, dogs, you name it. Lol.
I'm very lucky. They sense I'm no threat.
Some creatures I dislike, but not enough to hate them.

I agree with you... I'm also a cat, dog, birds, gecko, ladybugs lover.
I dislike meanie spiders though, however I avoid to kill them. Already stoped on road with alert lights on to wait a huge tarântula to cross it.
It was funny cause the other way car stoped too. Nobody bother her while she crossed the road.

There is just one creature I really dislike... praying mantis. They are not poisonous in any kind, but I still disliking them.

what a beauty! reminds me more of a butterfly than a cat though?

Hi Sticki, yes it is a beauty, and this is the second week around ... hope it will last a lot.

orchid flowers usually last a while i think ~ so long as its not too hot and dry??

The temperature is around 21C today, I water it a little bit every morning and move it to the light for about 30min than take it back inside.
The sun hits the balcony with all its strenght from 12:30 to 4 pm, so I keep it in.

21°C.
We should be so lucky, eh, Sticki? :-(

21!?? That's about 20 degrees hotter than here!

Geee... are you in Alaska?

We might as well be! I think someone or something moved our island!

LOL!!!! Temperatures are raising close to 30C today. That's the main reason why I can't grow tulips. I would need a cold greenhouse to be able to do it.

i have daffodils buried in the snow! the sun is out today and its a blue sky but still two or more inches deep in snow so must be about 2 degrees?? or maybe only 1?

awww... poor flowers, and daffodils are so cute :) hope they will survive

Me too, Thanks Aleyna

30°?
Just lazing in that heat, the sun beating down, a nice cool drink-Bliss!

You are welcome Sticki.

hey Mouldy, oyu forgot to say "sitting around the pool"... :)

Who needs a pool?
Heat, please...just as long as it's sunny.
Besides, you haven't seen the size of the drink I'm imagining.
It could be mistaken for a pool. Lol.

lol

They also look like clowns. The flowers, I mean. :-)

They do. Hey I watched a documentary about the gardens of Highgroove Castle and the dedication of Prince Charles to his Garden. He stated that he talks to the plants... as we do :)

Yes, but being a Prince, they must do as he tells them or his mum has their heads chopped off! =-O

Miltonopsis. I should try those outdoors. Im in the San Francisco bay area..sort of like southern Brazil. Many of the most common plants we grow are from southern Brazil. Jacaranda,Philodendron selloum,Queen palms,Butia palms,Bougainvillea. Many more.