The year I had an abundance of white blooms-----

my kind of "orchid". ;)

I cannot keep an orchid alive to save my life, so I go to our excellent conservatory to see an abundance of them, all different kinds.

I'm with Moni. :-)

Houzz won't accept my post with a picture here today. Picture below is from the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Orchards are beautiful, but their growing habit is too ungainly for me.

I'm with Moni and Allisande! But I can't grow either one. Don't know what I do (or don't do) to orchids, but I've never been able to keep one alive. Can't keep Bearded Iris alive, either, because they just don't like our climate. I did manage to get one to bloom once. one time. They grew almost like weeds on the farm where I grew up. My mother always called them her 'orchids', said she thought they were just as pretty.

Rusty

Igmd_gaz, I have those same cymbidiums in my back yard. Mine are done blooming now, however.

I sometimes have trouble getting phaleonopsis to rebloom, and some of my cattelayas bloom every other year. I have a few orchids that I am still waiting to bloom, but they are growing, and so maybe one year...

I had so many beautiful orchids, I really miss them. Damn flood!

I only have one now and it is in bloom again.

Local orchid nursery that has tours.