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RE: Australian Native Orchids #1. Magical Moments. Nature's Beauty. Beautiful Day. Color Challenge. Sunday Purple. Original Photography.
You have orchids native to Australia? For some reason, I never put the country and orchids together in my mind. Pure ignorance!
Lots of them Marianne. Many so tiny that unless you know what you're looking for, you don't see them. Lots of varieties: Duck orchids, spider orchids, sun orchids.
Most of the orchids in this display although native to Oz, would have been cultivated and protected in glass houses. But I have the pink variety of Dendrobium Kingianum growing outdoors in my own garden and it's really hardy.
I have a kit 'glass house' but it's still in pieces, waiting to be assembled. After seeing this display I'm inspired to have it set up ASAP. 🦋
They are beautiful! If on your walks, you ever see those tiny invisible native orchids, please take a picture and share!!! Are you trying to cultivate local orchids in your glass house?
I most certainly will Marianne. I have a few favourite places that are very close by, where possibly the sun orchids are coming out at the moment. They're blue in colour and ultra beautiful.
For the last year, every few weeks, I've been buying little potted orchids at our organic farmers market. So I already have a small collection of non-natives. The ones I bought last year haven't flowered again though ~ So I have a lot to learn.
Yes, I'll mainly cultivate local orchids. It's illegal to take them from the bush and even if it wasn't, it wouldn't feel right. But the people who organized the show meet once a month and I'll start going to their meetings and learn, learn, learn. 🦋
Good for you! I am looking forward to pictures of the blue ones. Orchids are too fussy for me to want to grow them and most of them are not edible. I would love to grow the vanilla orchid, but again, you have to work too hard to keep them alive :)