Orchid Show 2013

This year Pop came with me to the Orchid show.  It is held in the Hobart Town Hall and opens Thursday at 1pm and closes the following Sunday.  As I have done the past few years I headed straight for the sales area.

It is like a smorgasbord – a quick swoop around to see what is available and then trying to narrow down the selection.  The members of the Orchid Society are always very helpful and friendly.  While I was choosing my plants Pop went for a wander to look at the display and he took some lovely photos.  We then swapped over and he sat and looked after my purchases while I had a look around.

I bought a large plant of dendrobium ‘Wonga, a small unnamed dendrobium, a maxillaria ‘cucculada’ and also a coelogyne ‘cristata.  They were also selling bags of their own special orchid mix so Pop offered to carry one of those as well.

It really was a most incredible display.  The sweet fragrance of the orchids filled the room.  I left a very happy girl.

the following are some of Pop's photos

These are the plants I purchased.........

Dendrobium - 'Wonga'

'Wonga' -close-up

Maxillaria -'cucculada'

Coeloogyne - 'cristata' a white flower with a yellow lip

un-named but very pretty dendrobium

20 years later.......

I bought these two begonias 20 years ago when I first moved to Hobart.  All of this time later they are very special to me.  Back then I was by myself for a few months and so these plants were my companions.   

September 2013

The signs of Spring are everywhere.  The garden is full of colour.  The natives in the front garden are all flowering.

 As we will be heading overseas in October I have just been adding fertilizer and compost to the vege garden and not worrying too much about planting anything till we return.  The few things I did plant earlier in the year are not doing much but hopefully now that the weather is warming up they will get their acts into gear.

The cyclamens are all looking great and doing well.  So are the azaleas and camellias.

This 'masdevallia' (which flowered in June) has three buds

the first 'dendrobium' flower of the season 

my mauve 'pleione' is the first to flower - still waiting for the cream and the pink

'Helenor'

the azaleas near the back steps

the species daphne is doing well

the apple tree is coming into leaf

one of my favorite grevilleas

and another

the things you see sailing down the river...........

and one of the Tall Ships leaving Hobart