This is a Home Depot special. I spent 36 dollars on it. I picked up my first Vanda at an orchid festival. When I saw Home Depot selling Vandas, I just had to get one. I paid $60 at the orchid festival for one a bit smaller in size. So…
Author: Charles Fedderwitz
The “Chocolate” Orchid
What can I say about this one. Over 10 years ago I decided to go to an orchid festival at the Morakami Museum in Boca Raton. Not because I had a real interest in orchids but because I had a handful of young adults that I wanted to figure out…
Brassavola Little Stars
I picked this orchid up from the local Home Depot for less than 20 dollars. This species’ leaf properties are unique. They are like plump stabs of grass, unlike the huge flat leafed phalaenopsis and the beanstalk spindle shaped dendrobium. The actual genus of this orchid is called Brassavola and…
Biochemical Recurrence
It sounds like something out of a zombie apocalypse movie sequel. Where the zombie infection remanifests itself to lapse into a new outbreak of zombies stronger, faster and deadlier! Or something from a Covid or Eboli outbreak movie where the next strain is deadlier than the first. For me it…
Dendrobium Chanthaboon Sunrise
I purchased this orchid through mail order from Orquideas del Turabo. The description below was generated from AI Overview on Google when I researched it’s history. It’s the most concise description of the plant so I thought I’d share. The Dendrobium Chanthaboon Sunrise orchid was developed in 2011 by Chanthaboon Orchids and…
My Lucky Stars
Wow! October 6th marks two years since my surgery. Already! Wait what!? I can’t believe it. These past two years have flown by. Here I sit cancer free? No I can’t accept that. Everyone tells me I am. My PSA blood tests tell me I am. My Urologists tell me…
Yellow Ground Orchid
Here is another orchid variety we picked up on my birthday from Soroa Orchids. This plant was $25 dollars. My wife liked the purple variety that was being sold at Bamboo Orchid Gardens in Davie, but it looked like that was rampant at every place we visited so I wanted…
Vanda Rapeepat
Another birthday present to myself :). This one we got at Soroa Orchids right down the street from Banjong in Homestead. Quite an interesting place to visit if you ever have the chance. The entrance to this place is two large iron gates adorned with orchids. The selection inside was…
Fuchsia Vanda
I saw this one at Home Depot a couple of months ago in full bloom. The flowers are “ginormous”. They span about 5 inches. It was 36 dollars and some change. It was too nice of an orchid to pass up and it’s the first time I’ve seen Vanda’s sold…
Banjong Indigo
We purchased this orchid on my birthday 09/18/2024 from https://www.banjongorchids.net/. I believe this is a hybrid created by them. As I was looking at all of their beautiful Vandas I was caught by this inexplicable fragrance. I pinpointed the fragrance coming from this beauty. I knew there and then this…