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Here are some pictures from another nursery in Funchal. It´s part of a bigger beautiful garden called "Quinta da Boa Vista". The owner is a nice old woman from England. Only some greenhouses are open for public viewing, the interesting ones not. Due to heavy storms and flooding some days...

All orchids are potted. In Summer 2009 i saw some Phal. Shireen flowering in their gardens. Here some other orchids that were flowering. Zygopetalum: Cattleya:

I´m sorry, but there were no names on the plants. I have an excel sheet with all of their plants but it contains 30 Phrags, so it is not helpful. Sorry.

Well it was much too short, like always. :-( When I came back to my cold hometown I ask myself "Why did I left this beautiful island?".

American humor? Looks like I have to improve my lousy english.

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This orchid garden and nursery was founded by the family Pregetter from Austria. Only the orchid exhibition is open for public viewing. These pictures are made there. This year I didn´t found so many flowering orchids there, this may be because of the bad weather conditions in december (?)...

OK, the title is a joke. There exist no natural slipper orchids in Madeira. Madeira is an island that belongs to Portugal and is placed in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Africa. The climate is perfect for a lot of tropical and subtropical flowers. And because the people there love to have...

Yes it is.

I used CHC, charcoal and styrofoam for it. Looks like delanatii like this mix. All the roots you see (and much more) grow into the last 7 month.

Here you can see the influence of a hight light level onto the color and lenght of the leaves. The new leaves in front are brighter and more yellow than usual and they are shorter than the older ones. Anyway, the root growth is perfect.

A very nice and easy grower and bloomer from Africa. It has a nice smell similar to Oncidium Sharry Baby. Each of the hundreds of flowers has a wide of about 8 mm.

No fragance and yes, it is related to Bulbos: "SUBFAMILY Epidendroideae, TRIBE Podochileae SUBTRIBE Bulbophyllinae. Similar to the genus Bulbophyllum but with floral differences, this genus has 13 rarely seen epiphytic species, that have similar cultural requirements to Bulbophyllum. The...

I grow it warm (20-30°C), medium light, watering 1-2 times a day (like a Bulbo).

Too bad, Trias are easy grower.

I bought it via Ebay at "Blumenhaus Rengers" in Germany. I´ve heared, he only sells paphs that he bought from elsewhere (sometimes at Popow, Germany). So, maybe this one ist from Popow. Ricky

Good picture - good work with the lightning