Cattleya Wine Festival × Cattleya schilleriana
One of the oldest orchids in my collection, purchased from Carter and Holmes in 2011. I first saw this flower at my local NCOS meeting back when I first started collecting. The next year Carter and Holmes offered it in their mail order catalog, I miss those flyer days.
The flowers have a very waxy feel to them, the muted purple against the hot pink lip still gets me. The color of the petals are a little hot in these pics.. it really is a lighter muted purple. And the fragrance.. it smells like cherry flavored Italian ice with a heavy grounding of clover. I’ve not been able to bloom it in recent years, I believe it got too big. I feel some orchids perform poorly with too many growths.. maybe ‘poor relations’? Earlier this year I whacked off most of the older growths. Hope to see more blooming heads in the future..tbd.
enjoy.
One of the oldest orchids in my collection, purchased from Carter and Holmes in 2011. I first saw this flower at my local NCOS meeting back when I first started collecting. The next year Carter and Holmes offered it in their mail order catalog, I miss those flyer days.
The flowers have a very waxy feel to them, the muted purple against the hot pink lip still gets me. The color of the petals are a little hot in these pics.. it really is a lighter muted purple. And the fragrance.. it smells like cherry flavored Italian ice with a heavy grounding of clover. I’ve not been able to bloom it in recent years, I believe it got too big. I feel some orchids perform poorly with too many growths.. maybe ‘poor relations’? Earlier this year I whacked off most of the older growths. Hope to see more blooming heads in the future..tbd.
enjoy.
