Orchid fever gets real bad…REAL BAD

You know it’s bad when:

• you feel it in your bones when its time for an orchid shipment to Walmart and haunt the place until they arrive.
• you can’t decide and want to take them all home.
• you justify the space and time they take trying to combine them with your other hobbies. (I can take pictures of them too!)
• you find yourself pulling the plants out of the pots (in the store) to make sure you got one with good roots and you won’t buy plants where all the flowers have opened so you can enjoy the blooms longer. (4-6 weeks isn’t ever enough!)
• you feel bad for all the orchids that can’t come home with you - knowing they have a terrible drawn out death ahead of them. (My house is really a rescue center you see. Stores leave them in wet moss and drown the poor things.)
• the only thing you want for mother’s day is an orchid and you have to tell your hubby that he has to go get it a few weeks ahead of time because stores around here kill them and you want one with good roots. (I’m not too demanding am I?)

Luckily I only took 2 home this time. I KNEW Walmart would have another shipment in soon and so any excuse to see if they had arrived was welcomed. (My first hunch was 1 day off - not bad.)

One of my new plants has a 2nd spike just started - spiffy! It’s the one I photographed last night. So I’ll share a few photos - just to tempt you all…

And here’s the 2nd spike…

See it right in front of the left leaves?