Very pretty. Love especially the "slipper" orchid :) I remember going to an orchid exhibition when I was a kid in HK and was fascinated by the slipper orchids, but I haven't seen these varieties really over here. It's great that you hang on to the plant even though it had been sickly in the last couple of years.
In fact, I wish we have the narcissus over here, too. I think I saw them before in shops here but they aren't common at all, so since we've been here my family doesn't really have the tradition of celebrating with "New Year flowers" anymore -- i.e. no cherry blossoms, no narcissus, no "sword orchids", etc. It's only when my mum discovered calamondins from a gardening centre a few years ago that we manage to have some festive colours by way of house plants at this time of the year :)
we used to have the brown slippers back in sheepland. in fact, it was the first time i see green ones until we got this pot. Mum has the greenfingers - all I do was talk to the plants (and i always urge mum to talk to them as well. hahaha).
these orchids don't necessary flower every year, so we usually keep them after the flower has withered. mum would then tend to it and wait for the next one to come, so it's not necessarily sick. though we're not having so much luck with one of the "butterfly" orchids since the leaves aren't even looking very healthy.
i really hate it when i see ppl throwing away the bulbs once the flowers are gone...
Haha, it's my mum who has the green figners too :)
I'm ashamed to say I was nearly one of those people you mentioned in the last line as I almost threw away my lily bulbs after their first flowering (as I hadn't a clue that they would come back to life and I thought that my inexperience had killed it). They are again "hibernating" at the moment but I know better now than threw them away after they came back to life in the most dramatic fashion last summer.
And whilst I don't talk to my house plants, I do "plant massage" by gently rubbing their leaves / stalks to try to encourage them to grow... Yes I know I'm weird :P
i think i was more angry how they send orchids (in pots) to office as gifts and then throw them away once the flowers were gone. but i guess it doesn't make sense to ask ppl to put a pot of leaves in the office for a whole year while you have to tend to them when there's no flower? :P
haha.. not weird. i thought talking to plants was weirder XD
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Very pretty. Love especially the "slipper" orchid :) I remember going to an orchid exhibition when I was a kid in HK and was fascinated by the slipper orchids, but I haven't seen these varieties really over here. It's great that you hang on to the plant even though it had been sickly in the last couple of years.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I wish we have the narcissus over here, too. I think I saw them before in shops here but they aren't common at all, so since we've been here my family doesn't really have the tradition of celebrating with "New Year flowers" anymore -- i.e. no cherry blossoms, no narcissus, no "sword orchids", etc. It's only when my mum discovered calamondins from a gardening centre a few years ago that we manage to have some festive colours by way of house plants at this time of the year :)
thanks Snowdrops :)
ReplyDeletewe used to have the brown slippers back in sheepland. in fact, it was the first time i see green ones until we got this pot. Mum has the greenfingers - all I do was talk to the plants (and i always urge mum to talk to them as well. hahaha).
these orchids don't necessary flower every year, so we usually keep them after the flower has withered. mum would then tend to it and wait for the next one to come, so it's not necessarily sick. though we're not having so much luck with one of the "butterfly" orchids since the leaves aren't even looking very healthy.
i really hate it when i see ppl throwing away the bulbs once the flowers are gone...
Haha, it's my mum who has the green figners too :)
ReplyDeleteI'm ashamed to say I was nearly one of those people you mentioned in the last line as I almost threw away my lily bulbs after their first flowering (as I hadn't a clue that they would come back to life and I thought that my inexperience had killed it). They are again "hibernating" at the moment but I know better now than threw them away after they came back to life in the most dramatic fashion last summer.
And whilst I don't talk to my house plants, I do "plant massage" by gently rubbing their leaves / stalks to try to encourage them to grow... Yes I know I'm weird :P
i think i was more angry how they send orchids (in pots) to office as gifts and then throw them away once the flowers were gone. but i guess it doesn't make sense to ask ppl to put a pot of leaves in the office for a whole year while you have to tend to them when there's no flower? :P
ReplyDeletehaha.. not weird. i thought talking to plants was weirder XD