On Saturday 5 July Duckitt Orchid Nurseries in Darling had their open day. I was heading through to that part of the world so I made a turn early in the morning and got there just before opening time. The weather was terrible and the rain and hail were coming down intermittently. Temperatures were hovering around 7 Degree Celsius. I had packed some protocorms in a cooler box to keep them warm for a friend I was meeting at the open day and I was also looking forward to seeing the variety of flowering plants on offer. I was hoping to find some pendulous mini Cymbidiums but there were none so I drifted on towards the mass of other plants on sale. Previous open days had been a bit of a disappointment for me but this time I thought it was a good one.
I found a delightful little
Polystachya panniculata in good condition which I popped immediately into my basket. I also selected two healthy flowering size
Aeranthes arachnites to try at home. I also picked up two good looking
Podangis dactyloceras, a
Pleurothallis tribuloides and an
Angraecum rutenbergianum. I was very happy to find a
Brassocattleya Maikai Mayumi which I haven't seen in ages! I had one of these that flowered profusely for me some years ago but I left it at an ex-girlfriend's place after a not-so-pretty break-up... so I never did get the chance to recover it. I was happy with this one though and I also grabbed a pure white
Laelia anceps (I just can't seem to resist
Laelia anceps, even though I already have a couple - I love these too much and want more!). There were a few
Trichoglottis philippinensis on offer that were in poor condition but I selected the largest one to try this species again as I mentioned in the post about my
Trichoglottis rosea earlier. I am going to suspend its roots in water as I have done for the latter species and see how it goes. I also thought I had picked up a rather nice looking
Vanda (
Ascocenda)
ampullaceum but it turned out to be a hybrid of this with
Ascocentrum (
Vanda) Peggy-Fu which I already have. I love these vandas though so I am not disappointed. I also have two
Vanda ampullaceum specimens...
I have included a few photos here below in no particular order to give you an idea of the lovely plants on offer. I didn't fish around the labels for names I didn't know because I was shopping at the same time, so my apologies for this.
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| Inside the selling area |
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| Laelia anceps |
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| White Laelia anceps I bought |
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| Lots of Cymbidiums |
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| A nice collection of Cymbidium insigne |
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| Lovely large green Cymbidium |
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| Cymbidium hybrid with C. tracyanum as a parent! |
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| Just gorgeous! |
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| My camera can't handle the orange colour of this lovely bloom |
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| Another stunner! |
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| The Cymbidium greenhouse open for visiting on the day |
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