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Well-established blooming size plant in a 2.25" pot. The flowers aren't much to look at but pound for pound, this species is one of the worst smelling orchids I own. Smells like dead manure. If you like stink, or are looking for a gift for someone you despise, this guy is for you. Easy to grow and flowers way more often than I want it to!Care: Regular watering and light feeding year round, indirect light to shade, and intermediate to warm temps.

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Maxillaria schunkeana. Well-established blooming size division in a 3.25” pot. ​This beautiful miniature Maxillaria is one of the few orchids that produce "black" flowers. Not truly black, the small (about the size of a dime) flowers produce so much purple pigment that they appear black to the eye. The flowers emerge from new, mature pseudobulbs on short stems holding the flower at pseudobulb height. Care: Intermediate-warm temps, indirect light and regular watering year-round.

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Miniature orchid species Mediocalcar decoratum. Blooming size plant in a 3" basket. These tiny, mat-forming plants produce a flush of tiny (the size of a sunflower kernel) orange and red flowers that remind me of candy corn! Spring bloomerCare: Cold to intermediate temps, partial shade, regular watering year-round and regular, light feeding spring-fall. Never let the plant remain dried out for an extended period, especially in temps over 75°F.

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Blooming-size divisions in 3.25" pots. This is a selfing of the first orchid I ever bought (around 1988) ! It came from Rod McClellan's when it was still in South San Francisco. The parent plant has lived in 5 homes and 3 greenhouses as I've dragged it around through college and after. Needless to say it is a survivor! It has been grown in numerous environments but all the books say it prefers intermediate to warm conditions. It does like to stay on the moist side. I've always kept them in very bright light, as I do all my plants, so the leaves are on the "lime" side of green (As Miltonia Leaves should be). These plants do fine in pots but love to be mounted or in a basket. The flowers are beautiful. The petals and sepals are dark purple and the lip is lighter lavendar. They have the pleasant light fragrance of black licorice. The plant flowers in the fall. Each spike has 1-2 flowers that are about the size of my hand.

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Recently repotted, blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. This is an Oncidium on steroids! It's the largest Oncidium species I know of. It's not quite Grammatophyllum big, but it's close. This easy-to-grow orchid produces 6' long flower spikes that carry 50-100+ 1", lightly fragrant bright yellow flowers with maroon markings. I prefer to grow specimens in large hanging baskets. so I don't have to repot often. If you live somewhere where you can mount it to a tree (FL, gulf coast, San Diego, etc) and let it go, you are in for a treat!Care: Intermediate-hot temps, indirect light, regular watering and fertilizer spring-fall and let it dry out between waterings in the winter.

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Panarica brassavolae x Anacheillium radiatum. Well-established Blooming Size divisions (two back bulbs plus one new growth) in 3.25" pots.An unusual hybrid! It looks like a big, weird radiatum with a lot more flowers per spike. A very vigorous and floriferous plant. Sweetly fragrant.Care: Cool-warm conditions with bright indirect light. Flowers late summer to late fall. This is our exclusive cross and we have a limited amount of these seedlings so when they are gone they're gone!

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Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.This is an Orchids For The People in-house hybrid that has turned out fantastic! The plant has a compact, upright growth habit that makes it very manageable (it won't grow out of its pot quickly or get knocked over easily). Each flower spike produces 5-10 flowers. The flowers are 2-3" across and 3-4" top to bottom. The narrow petals and sepals are a warm gold color, and the huge white, spade-shaped lip is decorated with purple dots that are concentrated near the tip. The flowers produce an amazing honeysuckle-like fragrance that is strongest at night! Care: These are tough plants! They prefer bright indirect light, intermediate-warm temps, regular watering and light feeding spring-fall with a drier rest period in the winter.

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3 large, mature bare-root bulbs of Pleione formosana. Lab raised from seed, bred from our finest examples.Ready to be potted and will flower in 6-8 weeks! I will ship these with a detailed care sheet. The plants die back to the ground in late fall and need a dry, cold rest for a couple of months. When the leaves start looking ragged in the fall we dig them all up, sort them for size, store them in boxes in a cool, dry dark place, and don't bother them until late January, early February. They seem to prefer shallow "bulb pans" with a mix of 1/2 soil 1/2 fine bark with the bulbs sitting on top of the mix. Bulbs flower 4-6 weeks after breaking dormancy (and before the leaves emerge)Care: Medium-light and Medium temps while active. Hardy to 20 degrees, many people grow them outdoors in mild climates. I think these are some of the most magnificent orchids grown in cultivation today. Very large lavender petals and an elongated white frilly lip with brown spots. The flowers are even more spectacular because they bloom when there is still very little foliage so all you see are the flowers! We have a very limited quantity of these plants each year. When they are gone, we won't have any more available until the fall!

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Blooming size divisions in a 2.25" pot.  Branches and flowers emerge from the junction of the petiole and leaf. Truly pretty plants! Care: Cool-intermediate temps, shade- indirect light, regular watering and light feeding year-round.

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Well-established blooming-size plant mounted on a piece of Madrone wood. These have been mounted for over a year and are well rooted to the wood.This pleurothallid is interesting because of its tiny terete leaves and beautiful flushes of yellow flowers held on fairly long stems. It is beautiful mounted as it tends to grow into a dense mat.Care: Cool-Warm temps, bright indirect light-shade, regular year-round watering, and light feeding.

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5 plugs for $35 Near-blooming-size divisions This species has a bushy habit. Not only does it produce new branches from the base of the plant, but it also keikis freely from the base of each leaf creating “rooted branches”. You can leave the keikis on to get a big, bushy plant or you can easily remove them to prune or propagate.Blooms profusely in late winter. 5-10 dime-sized nodding flowers on arching spikes. The flowers are crystalline opaque white with brick-red spots covering the inside and outside of the flower.Care: This species prefers cool-warm temps, shade-indirect light, regular watering, and light feeding year-round. They aren't fond of drying out completely though they are a lot tougher than smaller pleurothallids.

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Large, well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. Here is a link to the amazing website orchidspecies.com information. These plants are the lighter color form shown here. 8-10 medium sized yellow-brown flowers seem to erupt out of the base of the leaf!

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