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A friend has a collection of Myrmecophilas. He lives close to the sea, where there is lots of wind and good humidity. The plants receive full sun during certain parts of the day, but not all day. As you see the plants thrive mounted.

I brought this orchid decades ago, from a vendor in New York that said it was a yellow form of anosmum. It didn't turn out to be yellow, but it is something of a mystery. I have not been able to find any reference to this variety on the literature on Dendrobium anosmum. Searching the web...

A nicely sized plant in an orchid show.

A cross of Blc. Carolina Golden D'or and Myrmecophila thomsoniana.

I grow Enc. bractescens close to the shade cloth at the top of the shade house in what I call "the burn zone" where light is most intense. The pseudobulbs develop protective pigmentation and bloom well.

I know, I know, lumper taxonomists say it's just a form of tibicinis. I am waiting for a splitter taxonomist to make it a separate species again.

I brought this one at a hardware store. The color is pleasant but the lip is strongly recurved back. I prefer clones that have a flatter lip presentation. This was sold as alata, it appears to be a hybrid, Encyclia Sol de Esperanza. The strongly recurved lip and the petals wider at their...

Photographed at an orchid show.

My experience with Encyclias is that they grow better is potted so that the base of the oldest pseudobulb, the one that will produce the new growth is slightly higher than the level of the potting material. I have used bark, stones, and empty terracota pots, all seem to work as long as the media...

Seen at a local orchid show.

A species found in northern South America, growing near rivers on granite outcrops, ridges and boulders with small pockets of soil. Grows from sea level to 1500 meters of altitude.

Renanthanda Yuthawong Beauty.

I often see orchids planted in massively large pots, way bigger than what is recommendable for orchids. If you carefully supply the water and fertilizer needs of an orchid, some can be grown in surprisingly small pots in relation to the size of the plant. This adult plant of Dendrobium...

This years the lip of the flowers of this Encyclia didn't recurve inward as strongly as on previous years.

Grammatophyllum stapeliiflorum x Thecopus secunda. I brought a seedling of this cross.

Encyclia Orchid Jungle. My plant produces four feet long inflorescences that have to be staked and secured so that when its windy they don't tip the pot in its side. The inflorescence has forty flowers. Fragrant

Den. rhodostictum

In a friend's garden.

A very strange flower. Sadly, the tag was not legible.