All I have is seeds for trade..Would you be interested in any? Flowers Purple Datura Blue Batchelor Button Chinese Houses Fox Glove Orange Trumpet Vine White Datura Birdhouse Gourd Red Cypress Vine Purple Hyacinth Bean Vine Pink Rose of Sharon Milk Thistle Didiscus Caeruleus Lacy Blue Palmer�s Penstemon Pink Foxglove Purple Foxglove Mix Foxglove Hardy Moss Verbena Lobelia Crystal Palace Pink Sea Blush Mixed Coral Bell Digitalis Foxglove Baby�s Breath Moroccan Toadflax Snapdragon (Mixed) Italian Crimson Clover Cleome Queen Mixed Common Lavender Blue Star Sea Holly Centaurea Rose Pink Kochia Green Iberis (Mixed) Primula Acaulis Hybrid Cleome Pink Goldfish Plant Origanum Majorana Red Zinnia Orange Zinnia Mixed Zinnia Yellow 4 o�clock Pink 4 o�clock Purple Liatris Pale Yellow Zinnia Candy Cane Zinnia Herbs & Vegetables Musk Melon Cellery Tall Utah Carrot Little Finger Cabbage Red Acre Iceberg Lettuce Musk Melon Burdock Herb Mustard Southern Giant Brussel Sprouts Eggplant Black Beauty Dark Opal Basil Detroit Red Beets Purple Hull Peas Georgia Watermelon Green Peppers Or maybe postage?

As Ray says, hot water will moisten the bark quicker than room temperature or colder. I have plastic tubs with lids that I put my mixes in. Several hours or the day before I need the mix I spray water over the mix and close the lid. I come back in a half hour or so to see if the mix needs more. If it looks dry I add more. I do this several times until I know the bark will be thoroughly moistened. The lids help the moisture to spread evenly and keeps it damp for several days.

I have no doubt that orchids, like all living things, have a defense mechanism against outside dangers. In us we call it the immune system. They undoubtably have something similar. I have been told that stressed plants exhibited the virus which then subsequently seemed to disappear. Or physical evidence there of, not the chemical test. My plant is a good example. At one time evidence of virus, now no evidence of virus. Could be nothing else other than stress, a couple of years ago, allowing the virus to show itself and now is dormant again. What this illustrates is that there may be many more virused plants in all of our collections which, if in excellent health otherwise, will not show any signs of it. If one would test every plant in a large collection, there would be a significant number which would test positive. Nick

That's Beautiful!!What are those little orange flowers in the front.Wish my Ca.porch was big enough to do something like that.My orchids are in bloom now as well.I have the yellow ones and the pinkish/mauve ones. TFS Kathi