You are reading "The Red Tag Journal". Stuff found in this section is NOT FOR SALE. I wanted a place on my website to post pictures and write about my greenhouse or garden, or whatever... If you find it here and you want it then check my Orchid Catalog (use the search box) because THAT is where things for sale will be found. If it here but not in my catalog, I will not respond if you write to ask me how much it costs or when it will be available or if I will sell you a piece or where you can find it.

Den. Golden Aya (aphrodite x capillipes) Always blooms in the spring. Seems to be deciduous everywhere but in my greenhouse. Lots of buds on this plant in an 8″ basket. Hundreds of flowers soon. Smells like an Easter basket full of candy. Flower display lasts about 2 weeks.  If I have seedlings or pieces of this plant available on the catalog they will be listed there as DPE1457, but otherwise this is just a pretty picture from my greenhouse posted in my red tag journal.

Here is another plant that could also show up in front of judges. The tag reads P. Green Pixie “Ever Green”. And they are clearly clones of a well selected cultivar. This one actually has a ‘cultivar name’ even if it is enclosed in “regular” quote marks. Sadly there is no such registered Grex called Phal Green Pixie. There is one registered as Phal I-Lan Green Pixie (Phalaenopsis Su-An Cricket x Phalaenopsis Timothy Christopher) and the plant in this picture looks a lot like I would expect a very nice clonable sibling of this cross to look like. But that is just a guess on my part. There is also an I-Lan Green Apple and an I-Lan Green Jewel to consider but if it is one of these three, then it is probably the one with Timothy Christopher as the daddy.

Here is another one of those Taiwanese mericlones. The tag reads “P. Sunrise Star.” There is no cultivar name, but they are identical, so they must be clones. Orchidwiz has an entry for a plant it calls: Dtps Sunrise Star (Dtps Chia Lin x Dtps Tinny Honey). It is registered by Sunrise biotech with the RHS. Nice bright yellow flower with a solid red lip. There is a little fading of the yellow pigment in older flowers. Got about a dozen of these right now. As of this writing (03/4/10), these are not shippable because they are in full bud and bloom. If there are any left later in the year after the flowering season they will show up in my catalog using the tag number DPE2582.

Need a tropical fix? Inside the greenhouse it is a sunny 74 degrees. Small waterfalls are making burbling sounds. The tree frogs are making tadpoles. And Orchids are blooming.

About 6 new inches so far and 24 more hours to go. Inside the greenhouse it still tropical.

These are obviously clones of the same cultivar but are not labeled with a cultivar name. They have been coming out of Taiwan by the boatload for about 2 years. Because it is very nice and lacking a cultivar name I suspect that judges in different places may even award it several different times. But that’s just a guess. Natural spread is about 11 cm. It is not possible to ship these right now (february 2010) , but they should turn up on the mail order catalog after the current flowering season is done. Search the catalog using the name or the tag number 2548 to see if there are any currently for sale. Of course, these and many other nice Phals are here at the greenhouse right this very minute for walk in customers.

It is really snowing out there right now.

Honestly I don’t know how people miss this entrance and instead go to the front door of my home to knock or go around back and stand outside the greenhouse and shout “Hello”.

I am posting this video of my greenhouse as a test. It is probably too long in “youtube” time; about 1:40 seconds. It is a quick walkthough of my greenhouse this evening as the sun was going down.

I embedded the file in this website page and called it with a link. It really lives on my facebook page. Yes. I am on facebook now that it is “so five years ago.”

Congratulations to Jim and Peggy. This morning they found this dude sunning on a bench in the south side of the greenhouse and became the first winners of the ’spot the treefrog’ contest.