I have hardy garden mums, a white swan echinacea or some crosocsima bulbs. Are you interested in trading for any of those plants? thank you Sharon Cash~Great Trader (on PlantSwap) zone 7

Just a little bit more.... Perhaps this orchid is really Gillian Leaney x Gai Ellen x Red River x Gillieston. Don't know where the brackets go, but they are needed to work out the order of crossing because the order determines the name in the RHS Database. Why bother growing these orchids? Because you should get a mass of sweetly scented flowers in spring. Why is it not producing the goods? Lack of light. There are some, on average, 300 sunny days spread evenly throughout the year here. Lack of a winter. That means something like 7 to 17C daily spread of temperature on an average winter day. Brrrr. Lol. but hard to achieve if you have your plants indoors because it is freezing outside. To much water and continuous humidity. It usually rains or the sun shines and if the wind is blowing from the interior of the continent, the humidity can be quite low. Not many cloudy dreary days with just a drizzle. To sum up. Perhaps these should be avoided because of a winter cool down necessary which might be hard to provide if you have to take the plant indoors over winter. More info. can be found in Wilford Neptune's kingianum culture notes. Not kingianum, but it is an ancestor in some of the above hybrids used to produce this plant.

Thanks, Faye, you are all heart! HAHA. Something about Regal Splendor reminds me of Sagae, perhaps its that energetic flip of the margin area, but it has a lot of energy IMHO. I like the look, that is certain. Okay, I feel my arm twisted, it goes on the list for maybe a short order that needs beefing out. I still have one to place, with Van Wade. And a make-up order to replace the Sugar Snap that my doxie Dolly ate (and then threw up), from the Solberg new arrivals. And Tepelus, your Praying Hands looks great in that pot with Creeping Jenny and surrounded by orphans. Sure hope it comes back for you.

I think safflower seed might be worth a try - many birds that like BOSS(Black Oil Sunflower Seed) are not so crazy about safflower but there are birds out there that will eat it.