Is there any other information on the plant labels such as another word after Phalaenopsis or Bakerara? As for care, that depends on where you are in the USA and sometimes newly acquired plants might not need repotting for a year or so. So maybe the best thing to do is nothing other than provide good growing conditions. Your Phalaenopsis is probably a hybrid.....a mixture of species. Your Baker ara (that's how to say the name) is a mixture of species from these related Genera. Oncidium, Brassia, Miltonia and Odontoglossum

Once the dend. stops growing for the year (usually fall), stop watering. This plant must be kept very dry and bright in fall/winter to bloom. If it starts to shrivel too much, give it quick drink but remember, not to much! Start watering again when new growth and spikes appear. The Epi. is easy. Bright light, regular watering, little less when not in active growth.

Welcome to the Texas hill country, ctnchpr. Im slightly south west of your daugter. I have had a mix of black chinned and ruby throated two years. We are on the far western range of RTs and far eastern range of BCs. The RTs, both male and female do seem to dominate the feeders and they seem slightly larger than their black chinned cousins. This spring I keep thinking I see an occasional visitor with a reddish brown color. So be on the look out for yet another species. It would be a huge thrill for me to see a Rufous here as well. I've never had one here. My camera batterys are charged and ready.

Bob, Great Shot, glad to see some of your finches are already molting to their summer breeding plumage, that means spring is coming,,,Hurrah!! Fortunately we got a nice sunny 35degF day today so I was able to get a shot from my bedroom window showing my whole feeder setup. The first shot is looking east from my bedroom window. In this shot you can see my seed hopper and suet feeders on the Maple tree, which is 60ft from my camera position. This location is working very well because many of the birds roost in the Maple tree during the day. Although you can barely see it in the photo about 20ft to the right of the Hopper there is a 65ft high pine tree that affords great cover for the smaller birds. Ten feet to the left of the Maple tree there is a small Butternut tree that is a favorite roosting place for the Morning Doves. I generally see upwards of 35 doves in that tree each morning. Another 15 ft to the left is a second 60ft Pine tree and behind the feeder sight you can see an 18 acres open meadow. You can see the woods are the far side of the meadow. That woods extends for about a square mile and it is mostly old stand hardwoods. Across the road to the left of this photo is another 300 acre hardwood stand, some new growth near the road, but old stand hardwoods from about 100 feet off the road. In the foreground to the left you can see my old garment hanger with the Niger & mixed seed tubes. On the left end on top you can see the plastic bucket lid that I use for a platform feeder. From my vantage point I generally use a 300mm lens to shoot birds on the hopper, suet feeder or on the ground below the hopper, while I use a 200mm to shoot close ups of the birds on the garment rack feeders. As you can see, all the birds at my feeders seem to play nice and I see very little competition.