Re: now wild orchid link

i think learning orchid species may be a life-long undertaking, cathy, although someone on an orchid list or a florida native plants list could likely identify it. but, how about if the next time i gouge babies off the mother oak, i send you one and you can try to grow it indoors? most orchids are easily tamed to be house plants. but since i just removed most of the small bulblets, i probably will not assault the oak tree again before winter. so, if you want one, remind me in, say, october.




At 02:26 PM 6/1/03 -0500, you wrote:
Does anyone know the species? Just curious since I am a nut for native plants, even though I have no hope of growing it. (I did have a - thankfully - brief, wild impulse to move to Florida, though!)
Cathy
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 06:06 AM, Donna wrote:

It is posted....
http://www.illianagardenpond.org/jimsphotos.htm



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some of you may remember that i found a wild orchid growing on an

old

oak

at the nursery a few years ago and, using a gouge, i removed one

of

bulblets [or whatever they're called] and glued it [gooped it] to

another

oak tree near the front door to our new headquarters building.

i checked it today, about a year after gooping it, and it has made

a

home

for itself--it is now four bulblets and they are getting much

larger.

it

may bloom, i think, within 2 years.

i got so excited by this development that i went back to the

source

tree.

that orchid is in full bloom--so many tiny flowers, in fact, it

looks

something like a swarm of bees. and, using the ever-handy gouge, i

removed

three more babies that i will goop onto my ponytail palm this

weekend.

a friend of mine, who spends many hours at this time of year

boating

up

and

down the myakka river, says there are now many, many wild orchids

blooming

and he intends to take a photo excursion this weekend.

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