This Zygopetalum is tough and reliable. It makes a dramatic indoor plant while it flowers in May and June, and also has a strong sweet scent, something like hyacinths. It’s a big plant so it gets a pot on the floor while it’s inside. This is a very hardy orchid, and it grows happily on the South balcony with morning sun in summer, no cold protection in winter (and full shadow) and rainwater or a weekly watering when it’s dry.
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Purple Dancing Ladies
This orchid flowers twice a year if we are lucky; a small flowering in Autumn and the main show in Spring. It’s tough and stays out on the South facing balcony unless it’s flowering, then it lasts for a long time indoors and has a beautiful vanilla scent. It is one of the Oncidium type, apparently a complex and uncertain genus. It likes bright light, with direct sun only early mornings if at all, and is happy with watering by rain, or a weekly watering if it’s dry. It is…
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