Moth Orchid outdoors all winter and blooming.

Stan,

It looks great! I’m getting better at growing orchids. My Dendrobium hybrid with big leaves and big white, fragrant flowers has buds right now. Maybe you can id it for me.

It's not only lived through the winter, it's flourished and flowered.

Delonix i'm only familiar with Comet type and D. kingianum. But seems to me that family can be counted on to take Med climate winters. My Comet is thriving on the trunk of the Trachycarpus As it grows longer and longer and trailing i wonder if stems will snap? It's happy and blooms every year.
Bernie I had the mildest winter in at least 60 years. 38f was the highest low temperature in that time. Right now as i type the first of three storms has started. A good winter for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Stan,

I think my white, fragrant orchid is a hybrid of Dendrobium speciosum. I’m not sure, though.

When I lived in Hayward I remember my neighbors growing many Phaelanopsis orchids in their patios. A lot of people grew many Cymbidiums, also.

I’ve noticed it’s been very mild to warm up in most of Northern California this winter. You’re lucky you are getting rain. We literally just had rain last weekend for the first time this rainy season (it was dry for 10 months). It wasn’t much officially only a quarter of an inch. We need 5 inches of rain to catch up to normal. We’re in extreme drought conditions here. Ugh 😩!

Well well…look at that. It’s loving being outside!