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How it is possible that people can say this is not pretty? Beautiful.

Beautiful. Well done.

I would not mind having the variety as displayed in the photo. I only have formosana. It is quite difficult to get more plants in South Africa. What I do is once the leaves are dry I remove the leaves, take the bulbs out of the growing medium (coconut chips), clean the bulbs a bit and put...

Well, I think I got rid of my "pets" by giving them lots of water. They were only on this particular plant and nothing on any of the other plants standing right next to this one. I was a bit concerned as the capense has three new flower stems developing and I did not want my pets to chew the...

When looking for snails a few minutes ago in my greenhouse I saw small insects on the roots of my Mystacidium capense. At first I thought these to be eggs of some sort, but when I had a closer look I discovered that these eggs move. These little insects are about, or not even 1/2 mm in...

Has anybody got any experience with the use of Kohinor? What concerns me a bit is the fact that it is a systemic insecticide. This I copied from the website: "Kohinor® is effective for the control of green peach aphid, woolly aphid, grey cabbage aphid and turnip aphid on various crops...

I'll give you slippers!!

You see I do not mind naming plants after people I have not even met!! Another reason why I have decided to organise a Slipper Symposium in Cape Town end August 2013 and trust all the members on this forum will come and enjoy. The plant has two matured divisions of which the one is in...

The petals are 35cm and the plant had one stem with 4 flowers when it got the award. There is a photo of the award on OrchidWiz.

My PEOY 'David' AM/SAOC in bloom at present. First time with me.

Tyrone, Negotiations are still under way, but not finalised yet. At this point I cannot disclose the venue before agreement has been finalised. All I can say at this stage is that it will be possible for "Cape Tonians" to either sleep over or at their own homes. This is a first time ever...

Paphiopedilum Symposium: 31/08/2013 - 01/09/2013 The above date is when the next South African Paphiopedilum Symposium is going to take place. This is an event in South Africa not to be missed. This will take place near Cape Town close to the internationally renowned Cape vineyards. A...

In my opinion the question is why have a separate paph get together at a WOC. I accept that there will be lectures on all kinds of topics including paphs, but why not a separate get together for Phallies, Catts, Dendrobiums, etc.? As I see it the WOC is there to have lectures on a variety of...

Tyrone, should we go ahead it will most likely be the first of second weekend of July 2013. The reason for this date is because it will probably be local school holidays in SA and secondly I think it is high flowering season for Paphs. I just hope we receive some international feedback as well.

We consider having another Paph (slipper) symposium, but this time in Cape Town early July 2013. I have had some positive feedback globally but then also some concerns. The Orchid Society of Northern Transvaal in Pretoria have been doing since it was started many years ago. The 1st...