Now, I'm really looking forward to mine blooming. May be another year or two, though. I love the lip! So fancy! That's really a nice flower. Is it fragrant? debs

It's gorgeous David. Love the iridescense. I've recently received a division of a skinneri, don't have a clonal name. I'll be thrilled if it blooms as beautifully as your plant. Happy growing. Sheila :)

does it smell like .... those spicy cinnamon candies? I saw an orchid that looks a lot like this a few days ago at Lowes, and it smelled like those spicy cinnamon candies. yum! :)

Rust doesn't survive the winter in our garden, thank God for that. We are rust free now, but we just keep reinfecting our plants every year because of the southern plants we buy. We try to buy only northern grown plants, but that is rather difficult. Some of the ones we want for hybridization are from the south. Some sellers offer good prices. There is one seller in Florida on the lily auction that sells new stuff at better prices than Jamie Gossard and Tom Polston, for example. I love to buy from those guys, but their prices are high and I can afford many more plants if I wait a couple of years and buy on the secondary market. Also, buying from Jamie, who is in Ohio, (and maybe many others) does not guarantee you won't get rust. Now that Jamie collaborates with Kinnebrew in Florida, there is always the possibility that he has grown the plants you buy in Florida to get the quick increase the climate allows. We will be trying something new this year. We will be spraying the southern-purchased plants (those that we pot and are in isolation) in hopes of keeping the rust from breaking out. If the plant isn't making spores, it won't be spreading to the other plants. We tried it late last season and it seemed reasonably successful.