Incredible blooms! That lovely GH must have a magnificent fragrance. Great photos, thx for posting.

Sheila :)

These are breathtaking, such a great display, Thank-you. Tricia

Orchid Crawl! I will have to learn about this new orchid phrase! I enjoying what is seems to say! Now what exactly is this? Is it when a visiting specialist will put up their collection? But then I was a bit confused when you mention it happens every day of the year? I would think Orchid Crawl would be at a specific season?

Anyway, I'm enjoying the clusterings of very bright colors in the first photo! It's great to see entire racks filled with colorful orchid displays. The one orchid right now that is really peaking my interest is the one on the far right that is growing out? of the ash-grey segmented trunks (segmented like bamboo)

B E A utiful... amazing... wow!

An orchid crawl is when you go around and look at other growers collections. One lady grows mostly Nobile/Softcane Dendrobium orchids and they are pictured. Only problem is that she has lots of blooms for one/two months of the year then mainly green leaves.
Fifty people viewed the three collections, I still waiting on pics from the other two sites visited.
Probably called something else in the USA.

Thanks Arthurm! In the U.S. when someone says crawl we always think about the Pub Crawl, usually around Mardi Gras, occasionally on Cinco De Mayo,and other local jazz fest gatherings, so I was figuring that it must be some "orchid festivity"---brewing, LOL! So thanks for the explanations. It's so nice to be to see a collection so frequently. Next year I will be sure to attend the Kansas City orchid show (comes once a year)! That's the biggest "orchid crawl" that we get.

We are looking forward to the next series you post...

Hi Arthurm,

Nice GH how do you water all your plant if they are all hanging one on top the other. Just wondering if you water the ones on the upper part you get to wet the blooms in the bottom level Thanks. . sufe ca

Sufe, those plants are in a shade-house, not a glass-house and some have been moved to the owner's flowering area so the blooms will last longer.

The answer to your question is that the remaining blooms will get wet and some purists will tell you not to have orchids growing on different levels because bugs and disease will spread.

Seeing we have got a Den. nobile thread here is another late Spring picture from here . Garden visitor & Den nobile, probably an Unknown Hybrid grown as a garden plant together with another common garden plant, the Hippeastrum

What jumbo blooms!
Still dreaming of mine ever coming close to this gorgeous...
Jan

Jan, if your zone 10 is on the western side of the USA the instructions for Hippeastrum is dig hole, plant bulb and forget about it.
For Den. nobile, similar instructions apply, in this case the plant is left under an arch covered in wisteria. The wisteria loses its leaves in "winter" , the plant gets more sun and flowers with nil care in spring and is protected from the hot sun in summer. Those plants are owned by a "non orchid" grower.
The local orchid Society has just sold lots of hardy orchids to people who are non orchid hobbyists.

Zone 10 in the East---Miami
Have determined to leave the nobiles out in the "cold" (down to 40, if we are lucky?), in fuller sun, with much less water and no fertilizer. Quit babying it , huh?
Thanks, Arthur!

Hi Jan, do not know about nobiles in Miami. Perhaps some of the locals can advise. In that particular garden (the one with the visitor) winter temps can get quite low because it is on the edge of a frost hollow. Brrrr.

No snow, but frost on the ground just a bit lower down the hill.