Yellow Orchids
The first photo below was taken back in November near my wife’s birthday. The orchid was a birthday gift from a friend at church. This is one of the biggest orchids I have ever seen. With the flowers in full bloom, it was about 3 foot high and equally as wide. The flowers were so large and heavy that the plant had to be secured against the arm of a chair.
The second photo was taken today. Orchids blossom in a most extraordinary way and then, almost without notice, they lose their flowers. I don’t really understand their seasonality, but as I was watering the plant today it made me think about how we sometimes follow a similar pattern.
We all blossom in a most radiant way at different times in our life. And then we retreat for a while to gain new strength, wisdom and insight before blossoming again. Life is a cycle of cycles—flowers bloom and then they wither and fall. But with each new blossom, is a new opportunity to be bigger, better and ever more vibrant.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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orchids are amazingly resilient too. Just when you think they'll never bloom they surprise you.
John, Orchids are amazing flowers, hardy, yet can be hard to grow. Thanks for the photos. Also thanks for sharing your inspiration/comparison of orchids' growing cycles to cycles in personal growth...so true. ---Gloria
Looks like a hybrid of one of the Cattleya orchids. Many of the Cattleyas are easy to grow inside or outside, but it looks like yours has been put out in the sun to die. Move it back to bright light inside or partial sunlight outside, like under a tree where it can get the morning sun or dappled sunlight at other times.
Almost all orchid hybrids need to have their flower stalks supported. Geneticists have succeeded in hybridizing for huge flowers, but they are not so focused on a flower stalk to support them.
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I love orchids, too. They are so 'photogenic', aren't they?
Debi