Self care by growing a garden

[Shaz51]

hello @Former-Member, @Smc, @eudemonism, @Faith-and-Hope, @jovial, @Bunniekins

my orchids are out

[Bunniekins]

@Shaz51 aren't you clever growing orchids!! 😮 cannot wait to see the rest of the flowers 🙂

[Former-Member]

Beautiful @Shaz51

[Smc]

Lovely @Shaz51. My sister is keen on orchids, and has some beauties. Mostly Cymbidiums.

My only successful orchid is a native Greenhood that I've got in a pot. It was in flower when I bought it, and is coming up to its third flowering, so that means I've had it for a bit under two years. I repotted it last summer, carefully following instructions I found online for potting medium and other requirements, and I was delighted when they came up looking very healthy afterwards. 🙂 One of their requirements is that you re-use the old potting medium as at least half the volume of the new mix, because there's a mycorrhizal fungi which associates with their roots and feeds the plants. Once they die down again, my sister wants to use some of the soil to innoculate a mix for some native orchid seeds that she's got which also need the mycorrhiza.

[eudemonism]

Thank God nobody cared about what I wrote this morning @Shaz51 - to be honest it only seems like 5 minutes ago when I woke up.

[Shaz51]

what I wrote this morning -sorry @eudemonism, where did you write it this morning my friend

[eudemonism]

Hi @Bunniekins xo

[eudemonism]

On writing as a therapy & worry room & @Shaz51 +my quotes thread. If no one noticed I suppose it wasn't a big deal lol.

[Adge]

Yes your orchids are gorgeous @Shaz51

I gave up trying to grow orchids, since my last ones died years ago.

Crucifix orchids are lovely (in various colours) - even those died eventually.

Adge

[Former-Member]

I have two phalaenopsis orchids that I have been able to keep alive.