RE: new mystery plant/now wild orchid

Pictures Jim!
Very happy for your success.
Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <JSinger@Hazeltinenurseries.com>; <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 5/30/2003 4:18:15 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] new mystery plant/now wild orchid
>
> thanks, ceres. i'm going to follow jim's advice and look it up in a2z [i 
> keep my copy at work] on monday.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> At 07:17 PM 5/29/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Not seeing the leaves, I would guess Eucharis.
> >     Ceres
> >
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