Returning to orchid growing

[Weaver]

Hello all, over the last year I have been re-growing my orchid collection. I had a modestly large orchid collection about 10 years ago which I lost due to a combination of a bug problem that came in on a new plant and I didnt catch it before it spread to **everything**, and time constraints involved with caring for my elderly parents…which is why I didnt catch the problem in the first place :-/.
This time around I am growing mostly paphs, both Maudiaes and strap, and a few phrags. I am growing them in orchidariums (see pics) under LED lights to better control the humidity, plus I have cats who think paph and phrag leaves are very very tasty.
I also grow hardy orchids. Here is a pic of a bloom from one of my oldest orchid clumps, a cypripedium formosanum. I am just a bit north of Seattle, so a great climate for hardy orchids.

 

[Tom-DE]

Welcome. Congrats on your re-addiction.
Wanted to travel more and downsize our property, I got rid of my collection(mix genera), ~1000 plants 8 years ago but I kept about 20 plants...for years, I didn't add any new plants, but 6 months ago, I got addicted again and started to add a lot more plants, mostly Paphs....
I have some hardy orchids growing wild in my woods also, including the pink Cyp.

 

[Weaver]

Thank you Tom-DE! And: Wow! My modestly large was no where near 1000, which just goes to show how everything is relative

 

[Roots]

Welcome from just a bit south of Seattle. Your orchidariums are spectacular. Do you keep like with like in them? I am a new-to orchid-grower as of this year, almost all paphs.

 

[merc]

Yay more PNW folks! Welcome!