Now you can charge Master Card and Visa directly to ORCHIDbabies. We are hoping this will make your purchases a lot simpler and easier for you (and for us too!). You may send in your order (including your phone number) and we will call you with the total when we compute your shipping. You may also prefer to call in your order. Please do not send your credit card to ORCHIDbabies by email, however!
Yes,
we have a new logo - designed especially for us by Teri Zweifel of Nashville,
TN. We first met Teri at the Orchid Show there, and she was most
supportive of our new business, offering to help us design a logo for
ORCHIDbabies. We've just included the logo on the website, and we give you
her contact information, just in case she can help YOU solve a problem of
design, logos, and so on. Teri also did the designs for the Mid-America
Orchid Congress.
Contact info: Teri Zweifel, TZ Designs (Graphic Designs for Print & Internet), 316 Honeyhill Drive, Nashville, TN 37217. Telephone: 615-361-5303 and Email: TZNash@aol.com
You've heard us talk about growing phrags on a windowsill; it requires bright light, and we recommend a little morning sun. When you hold your hand between the window and the plant it should cast a fuzzy shadow. Sit the plant in a tray of clean water about 1" deep, but always keep the air holes in the pot above the water, even if you have to cut new holes. The roots need air. Phrags are probably the easiest orchid to grow on the windowsill. Flush with lots of water weekly and fertilize with 1/2 strength orchid fertilizer. Phrags are very pest resistant. Occasionally brown spots on lower leaves appear near the media. This is a bacteria that likes wet places - use powdered cinnamon directly on the spot after peeling the old leaf off. To get an old leaf off just split it down the middle and peel each half separately. This also works well on paphs and phals.
We had a Phragmipedium Super Rubies 'Orchidbabies' (besseae 'Black Falls' AM/AOS x warscewiczianum 'Windy Hill') awarded in Atlanta judging on March 11. The HCC/AOS award garnered 77 points on two blooms and one bud, and this plant was a first bloom seedling! The color was great. This may be the first Super Rubies awarded.
Plants in our Orchidbabies display won 1 blue ribbon, 6 red ribbons and 1 white.
Two Phrags were pulled for judging: Cape Sunset (Eric Young x schlemii) and an unnamed first bloom seedling (longifolium x Robert Palm). The Cape Sunset was awarded an AM/AOS of 82 points.
Cape Sunset 'Orchidbabies' AM/AOS
The Nashville Orchid Show in mid-March was hosted by the Middle Tennessee Orchid Society at the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, which was a perfect facility for the show. Three of our plants were awarded blue ribbons in their divisions: Paph. lowii, Phrag. Sgt. Eric, and Cleisostoma arientum. Third place awards went to Phrag besseae and Phal Golden Wish 'Sunnybrook' HCC/AOS x Dtps. Neopolis.
Orchidbabies' first orchid show was a success. Much to our surprise the display, "Orchid Conservation - Propagation by Seed" was awarded an 84 point AOS national award for educational display. Additionally, the display was awarded a blue class ribbon, a best of classes I - V blue ribbon, and a trophy from the Alabama Orchid Society for the best display in its class.
Orchidbabies also won the Margaret Holder trophy from the Alabama Orchid Society for the best plant in the show. Cirr. Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry' FCC/AOS was the display centerpiece and made quite a display. The funny thing: the plant bloomed two weeks before the show and we had to turn down the air-conditioning to 60 to hold it in perfect shape.
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