Oerstedella schweinfurthiana (syn Epidendendrum schweinfurthianum). Deflasked October 2023 and well-rooted in 3.25" pots. 2-3 years from blooming size
These easy-to-grow Epidendrum relatives have amazing 1" flowers with sepals and petals that are bluish-purple on the back and orange-red to bronze and a bluish-purple lip. Flowers develop in bunches of 4-10 flowers in the fall-winter. Mature plants produce wispy, flexible stems that can EASILY REACH 10 FEET LONG.
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Care: cool-warm temps, indirect-bright indirect light, regular watering and fertilizer spring-fall, and let dry between light waterings in the winter.
Ornithophora (Sigmatostalix) radicans. Well-established, plant in a 3.25" pot.This miniature plant blooms profusely from spring through fall and produces tiny, fragrant oncidium-like flowers. Plant become little bushes when mature and are best mounted or planted in a hanging basket. Easy to grow and grows really fast when happy!
Care: Bright indirect light, intermediat to warm temps, regular watering and light feeding spring through fall with a slightly drier winter rest.
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Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. These started as 2 pseudobulb divisions last year and now have at least 1 new pseudobulb since being divided.
In our humble opinion, one of the prettiest and showiest of the "Encyclia group" (it's been called Encyclia, Prosthecea, and Panarica in the last decade so take your pick of names!). The flowers, which are 4"+, are without a doubt some of the largest flowers of the group. Each 18-24" flower spike will have 8-14 flowers that open simultaneously. Plus they have a nice, light fragrance in the evening!
Easy to grow and very forgiving.
Care: cool-warm temps, bright indirect light, regular watering, and fertilizer spring-fall with a drier winter.
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.
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. These plants are ready for a 3"-4" pot or hanging basket.
Also known as the Rattlesnake orchid (the unopened flower spikes resemble a rattlesnake rattle), this plant produces long chains of flowers similar to a Dendrochilum. Each spike will produce 25-100 pearl-size fragrant flowers that open in a spiral pattern.
The plant has attractive, stiff, very dark green leaves.
Care: Indirect light-shade, cool-warm temps, regular watering and light feeding spring-fall with a slightly drier rest period in the winter.
Well-established blooming size (1.5-2" across) plant. This plant will be shipped bare root. Be prepared to pot this plant into a 3"+ pot. Especially good for gnats!
This is a hybrid between 2 tropical butterworts, P. emarginata x P. laueana. Produces beautiful .5" shiny purple flowers with darker purple veins. The leaves turn dark green (kinda blue-green) in bright sun and have a darker upturned margin! Flowers randomly year-round and produces lots of baby plants around the base of mature plants spring-fall.
Care: must be kept moist to wet year-round. Rainwater or filtered water is mandatory for the long-term health of the plant. Cool-hot temps and bright light-direct sun. The brighter its environment, the pinker the leaves become!
Large, well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.
15-30 small, fragrant vibrant yellow flowers seem to erupt out of the base of the leaf! When in full flower the plant seems to be covered in little yellow pompoms!Care: Cool-warm temps, shade-indirect light and regular year-round watering and light feeding. This species should never be allowed to dry out completely.
Well-established blooming size plant in 2" pot.
This tiny flowered species is easy to grow with intermediate to warm temps, bright indirect light, and enough water and humidity to prevent it from drying out for long periods of time.
It's a favorite at the nursery for its forking growth pattern that creates an open yet bushy plant.
Mature, mounted blooming size plants. We imported these plants 6 months ago but held on to them to make sure the plants were healthy and strong (they are!).Small is an understatement when describing this species! Commonly called the millipede orchid because of its growth habit. This species hugs its growing surface looking for any crack or crevice to follow. The flowers are nearly identical to S fragrans (but without fragrance) but the sturdy, succulent leaves are about 1/2 the size (1/4" long, 1/8" wide)! The plant tends to branch randomly (these plants are already branching).
Blooms randomly at the nodes all along the plant in the spring-early summer. The tiny flower spikes hold up to 6 long lasting, brilliant pinkish-purple flowers.Great for terrariums!Care: Intermediate-warm temps, bright indirect light, daily light misting, light fertilizer 2x/month when growing new roots or leaves.
Blooming size 3 plant bare-root divisions. Please note: the plants will not be blooming upon arrival, the photo shows what to expect as far as plant/division size.
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Each plant is the size of a quarter with tightly overlapping leaves that grow in a single plane to produce what looks like a tiny palm frond. The plants are connected with a 1” long rhizome to form a branching string of plants.
And it has flowers that are as large as the plant itself! Beautiful light pink, crystalline flowers with markings that differ from plant to plant. Flowers for us randomly throughout the year with long-lasting flowers. 2-4 flowers per spike.
These plants need little to no potting media. We throw them in empty baskets, string them through our “wire walls” where we hang our mounted plants, etc. Great for mounting, the parent species both grow on twigs in the wild. Usually, one plant has what looks like a precarious hold on a tiny branch and the rest of the plants are dangling in free space!
Care: These plants like bright-very bright light and intermediate to hot temps. Water often spring-fall and let them dry out between waterings in the winter.
Near blooming-size seedlings (6-18 months from blooming) in 4 inch basket. These plants are ready to be transplanted into larger hanging baskets with minimal-no potting media. Bred inhouse, the parents of these babies are both "Wild Type". The flowers have very light lavender-blue petals and sepals with almost ghost-like veins of darker color. Care: prefers intermediate to warm temps, very bright light-direct sunlight and water every 1-3 days spring-fall with a drier winter rest.
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.
This plant has flowers that never truly open. Instead a tiny slit forms in the side of the flower allowing the tiny gnats that pollinate it in. The flowers are dark purple on the outside and gold with purple dots on the inside. The flowers measure just under an inch long and last 6 weeks. Flowers in the late fall.
These plants grow well in cool to warm temps with medium/low light and should not be allowed to dry out completely. We grow ours in bright indirect light which makes the leaves turn purple. When these plants are grown in less light the leaves will remain green and the plant will still flower prodigously.
If you're into Pleurothallids, rare plants or the weird orchids, this is a good one!
