I'd like to commend ST and thank those

[abax]

of you who bid on my plants and a special thanks to those who won them.
Also a warning...don't kill my babies! Packing up my babies was very
hard for me, but the trees around my greenhouse just won't allow me to
grow high light orchids anymore...well, I can grow them well, but can't
bloom them. It's warm and shade from now on in my gh.

Addendum: I won't be paying for all the shipping after this year's auction.
I payed this year to show my appreciation to ST and all the
good information I've gotten via this forum. My Paphs. are
growing and blooming very, very well and now I'm a confirmed
Paph. freak.

 

[SlipperFan]

Thank you, Angela. You are very generous!

 

[EdenSprings]

Thank you, Angela, for so generously donating your treasured plants, and for doing such a great job of packing them up, too! If it's any consolation, the Cookara I won did not want to come out of the box you shipped him in.

I promise to send photos of 'Bill' when he hits those big milestones in life: his first bloom, graduating to a bigger slab, maybe even entering a show by himself...the sky's the limit!

Oh, and if those trees around your greenhouse ever come down, let me know. I'll send him back. (Well, okay...most of him...!)

--Barbara

 

[abax]

Barbara, if those trees ever come down, I'll have no greenhouse to grow
anything! I love my trees, especially the tulip poplars...our state tree,
you know.

Ah Dot, I'll get stingy after this year. ;>)

 

[Linus_Cello]

I got the plants yesterday Angela in great shape. I'll try my best to keep them happy and healthy! Thanks for donating!

 

[streetmorrisart]

Thanks again--I'll do my best with the lovely Phal. pulchra you sent me.

 

[cnycharles]

ty angela, I was going to suggest that a tree might come down , but if you have someone hook ropes to it you may be able to direct the fall away from your greenhouse

after reading your admonition to keep your babies alive I am going to now use more effort on my first day off in many days to get my plants into a better environment! I would put them outside, but seeing the forecast and temperatures going down into the 30'sF the next few nights can't quite do it yet. spring is springing slowly this year, more like my first two decades of experience rather than this last one

 

[abax]

Charles , we live in the woods and cleared enough land for a small footprint
on our forest. We've tried our very best to build environmentally positive,
soooo quite a chunk of woodland would have to come down to get more
direct sun on my gh. I don't mind at all and am really sort of thankful. I'd probably never have tried Paphs. again if it weren't for the shading. Besides that, where would all our little woodland critters and birds live?

I hear you about the goofy weather. We have a frost warning tonight and
we have blueberries setting on...aaaaccckkkk...and strawberries. We've got as much covered as possible, but I'm worried.

 

[SlipperFan]

It was 29ºF here last night. I haven't looked around yet to see what damage may have occurred. Afraid to.

 

[abax]

No damage so far, but we're expecting patchy frost tonight. Send good
thoughts to the blueberry bushes and strawberry plants. We've got a very
heavy set on the blueberries and I want some this year, bydammy!

 

[SlipperFan]

No damage so far, but we're expecting patchy frost tonight. Send good
thoughts to the blueberry bushes and strawberry plants. We've got a very
heavy set on the blueberries and I want some this year, bydammy!

Fingers crossed.
Very little damage here, even though it got down to 29º.