Remove them from the glass containers and repot them in clay or baskets using a nice open potting medium. The renantera really needs to be in basket so it roots can develop normally. Whatever you do, do not add more water to the plants if the sphagnum is still wet. You will rot the roots.

Just saw this post today & happen to live in NLV. The tree with the yellow flowers is a Palo Verde. VERY messy & impossible to kill. It will drop long pine needle like leaves everywhere. There is a Desert Museum variety of the Palo Verde which is the only one I can from experience recommend planting. The other Butterfly Bush looking one is a Chaste Tree. Very nice (deciduous) tree. African Sumac...Sumac think poison ivy - another terrible tree that happens to do well in the desert & is very messy also. Hope this helps.

Ken, if you knew anything about the phalaenopsis orchid you would know that it DOES need fertilizer that often. Mine (at the time of this post) was re-blooming. I let it drop all of the original blooms and I began the normal regimen to rebloom the plant. When you go through this regimen the phal gets fertilized once a week weakly. Once the blooms come in the plant the gets fertilized every two to three weeks after. The reason for this is to keep the nitrogen an phosphate levels up so the plant doesn't die. I am aware that it is a PLANT Ken. But all plants need fertilizer. And your post has nothing to do with the thread like worm that I found in the pot. BTW, phal orchids don't like sitting in water. That is why you drain out the excess water. And FYI I treat my phals like I treat my children, and that is with lots of love and respect. And that is why my plant is so healthy now. As my pic shows. Next time leave info that helps.

I keep forgetting to take the pictures! I walk by there every day thinking "I should have taken the camera" but I'm usually running late. I will do my best, but I'm going to wait until I get some newer blooms, when these have time out in the sun they bleach out to a more pinkish color. It was barely lavender to begin with, purple is overstating it by alot, I think. Mark