Mastering Horticulture

T his is the time of year when my cymbidiums are in bloom and thus the obligatory orchid photo-shoot.  The variety names of these ones ar...

Fig. 1  Cymbidium:  Winter of 2014 Three years ago I repotted my cymbidiums into three gallon containers .  This year (late spring) ...

T here is a season for everything.  In my garden, now is cymbidium season.   While the rest of the plants are just beginning to awa...

Fig. 1    Cymbidium flower bud (March 25, 2010). The opening of the cymbidium flower is a slow process especially during this season when t...

The flowers beginning to open. This green cymbidium which I called Cymbidium California 'Sun Acres'  is blooming like crazy right n...

As of this week, spikes are coming out from the Cymbidium California  'Sun Acres' .  Compared to last year's bloom, these flowe...

Transplanted pseudobulb with new shoots. New Growths on Pseudobulb.  Pseudobulbs are the swollen orchid stems where leaves are attached to....

I transferred the cymbidiums from their original one-gallon pots to three-gallon ones.  Orchid mixes are very expensive so I am experimenti...

It's happening...I am slowly being converted into a cymbidium enthusiast!  Well, not quite.  I only gave in to buying two more orchids ...

Cymbidium California 'Sun Acres', HCC/AOS California = Cymbidium Blue Smoke X Cymbidium Alexanderi Sometimes flower varieties are...

Forgotten in a corner of my garden are two Cymbidium orchids. Tim had bought them for me years ago.  Without doing my research I assumed th...