Winter Blooming Orchids for SW Florida
Steve Hunt
bloom in the winter in SW Florida. Does anyone have any names of hybrids
or species?
alynne00
winter from local shows or growers. For instance, the Ft.
Lauderdale show--usually held in Jan or Feb--would be well worth
the drive, IMHO. I live in SE Fla and have mostly phals that
bloom in winter, but FWIW--these have bloomed reliably for me in
winter:
Den. Hono Hono
Den. jenkinsii
D. Kurenai x D. Ise
Slc. Jewel Box
Blc. Bryce Canyon x. Blc. Mem. Roselyn Reisman
Ascda. Bicentennial Fireworks
Ascda. Udom Chai 'Bart'
Neost. Fuchs Ocean Spray
The ascocendas and neostylis will bloom several times a year.
The D. Hono Hono is a pendent cane type dendrobium that only
blooms in Jan or Feb--but is worth the wait and trouble keeping
it cool and dry in the fall. Please remember the plants respond
to your individual environment and may bloom a bit sooner or
later that others just like them grown only a few yards away!
hope this helps
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Prem Subrahmanyam
March, which in FL, is spring. Den. loddigesii and Den. aggregatum
are two more early spring bloomers.
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Steve Hunt
are good ones.
alynne00
about Zone 11. D. Hono Hono blooms every Feb for me. It is a
very pale lavender with lavender stripes inside the lip and very
fragrant. Lots of light, water, and fert in the summer--then I
keep it in a bright, dry area starting in Oct. It loses the
leaves in Dec/Jan and starts buds in mid to late Jan. see a
(blurry) photo of it:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/2947/orchpic3.html
so it is the same as superbum/anosum? good thing to know.
maybe the grower had it labled wrong, or it was some hybrid var,
who knows. thanks for the info.
Prem Subrahmanyam
>
> Maybe because we are south of you, in Zone 10--really, just
> about Zone 11. D. Hono Hono blooms every Feb for me. It is a
> very pale lavender with lavender stripes inside the lip and very
> fragrant. Lots of light, water, and fert in the summer--then I
> keep it in a bright, dry area starting in Oct. It loses the
> leaves in Dec/Jan and starts buds in mid to late Jan. see a
> (blurry) photo of it:
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/2947/orchpic3.html
> so it is the same as superbum/anosum? good thing to know.
> maybe the grower had it labled wrong, or it was some hybrid var,
> who knows. thanks for the info.
Dendrobium anosmum (aka Den. superbum) has been grown widely by
Hawaiian orchid growers for a number of years, and it has been
given the nickname Honohono by the Hawaiians. So both names
are actually correct. You could be experiencing a different
bloom time due to being more south...fall bloomers tend to bloom
earlier up here and the wave of flowering sweeps southward through
the state. Spring bloomers tend to have the opposite effect,
blooming first farther south with the wave of flowering sweeping
northward. It would be an interesting endeavor to follow the
flowering of one of the very widely distributed terrestrials,
like Pogonia ophioglossoides, Habenaria ciliaris, and Calopogon
tuberosus as blooming starts at one end of their range and sweeps
toward the other end (all three of these grow from southern Canada
all the way down to southern Florida.
Orchidkid
writes:
>I am trying to find an assortment of catts, vandas, or dens which will
>bloom in the winter in SW Florida. Does anyone have any names of hybrids
>or species?
>
Steve;
You can add Rhynchostylis gigantea, Rhynchostylis retusa, Vanda coerulea, and
Calanthes vestita to the winter blooming group for us in SW FL. Alynne is right
about the Ft. Lauderdale Show, it is well worth the drive. But closer to home,
there are several winter-spring shows in SW FL. Bradenton in January, Venice
in February, Naples and Ft. Myers in March, and Englewood in Late March. Show
schedules are usally posted at the FNC Judging Ctr website at
http://www.orchidjudges.org/
Jerry and Karen
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