Orchid Surprise

Sep 1, 2009 | A day in my life, Blog

Now THIS is the kind of gardening that works for me –

totally ‘hands free’!

I went away for 3 weeks and came back home to a beautiful orchid surprise…

These lovely cymbidiums are my favourite orchids. They flower around the time of my birthday so I see them in the stores each year ’round about August and if I remember to beg hubby… he will get me one for my birthday!

Orchids can be quite ‘fussy’ and I have to say, I really do not have the patience to love and feed them as I know I should, so most of the plants return this lack of attention by refusing to flower ever again!

So you can imagine my total surprise this year when I returned from our trip to Sydney for the Stitches and Craft show, to find that one of my birthday orchids had totally forgotten to hold a grudge and had burst into flower! Wow, now I remember why I am in total awe of these exquisite plants!