I asked the back yard orchid guy if he had any Miltonias, and he rather too keenly sold me this one. It is, to be sure, the real Miltonia, but what is usually called Miltonia, and what I was expecting, is the much more showy Miltoniopsis. Still, this one has been an interesting addition to my collection, and fills a flowering gap in later Summer.
It is not right for an indoor display though. The colour is not particularly showy, and the flowers are somehow unspectacular. It also has a strongly spreading growth form, so even though it loves getting repotted every year, the new pseudobulbs are quickly out of the pots and dangling roots in the air. I think it will be great one day in a garden where it can ramble through leaf litter and show its bright flowers out of heavy shade.
The flowers do come freely too. Each stem has a spike with half a dozen buds. They tend to flower in pairs and intensify from pink to blue.
