Oh, Sambac, noooooooooo! Dagnabit, what a bummer. Hang in there. I'll bet it will spike again very quickly from another psb if the div is large enough. Once mine get going, they usually send up several blooms. Good luck! Re: the the flower size, most of my spotted catts, including this one, have nice size flowers, at least 3" across. I was having problems connecting here too, so I went to the Garden Web main page and opened the Orchid Gallery separately. Now I just click straight to it instead of trying to get there from the Forum. Marci PS: Love your pool deck!

they just got snow burnt during winter. You see we all suffered these bouts of warming and freezing this year. when that happens portion of the plants will swell up in warming times and then when it freezes the cells will die. Freeze and warming cycles can damage plants. But your plant is fine. I'm just guessing the snow bank went up to the lower parts of the tree where it got affected. Trust me on this. Where the green parts are, it;s very lively. The slight yellowing just affected the tips but it's not spreading. The leaves beside it are very bright green. Looks good. When you start seeing more of a dull green colour and when you scrape the trunk and see a dull green or browning in the inner trunk then you can say the plant is dying. I guarantee you this is not the case. It just was a bit difficult of a winter but its recovering just fine. In due time, it will come back really nicely. The nice thing about emerald cedars they do fill in well. I have emerald cedars in my backyard. I know this.

Beautiful...waiting for mine...still have another 12-18mo til blooming size. Stunning!

I do like it. I wonder if there are some that are greener? True green flowers do get my attention though...