Take time to enjoy the diversity and beauty of orchids and their flowers...

As an orchid hobbyist, I grow orchids in my backyard in San Francisco - some outdoors but most in a small greenhouse.
Here I share some thoughts and pictures, and welcome you sharing yours too.

This is my backyard greenhouse where I grow mostly orchids... what kind you ask?

Bulbophyllum - like this medusae species:
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Vandaceous ("Vanda-like") orchids like this Ascocenda:
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This cirrhopetalum is in the bulbophyllum family but has the flowers in a circular chain - this one is from Borneo:

Another "fascinating" bulbophyllum with bring purple color and fringe hairs that move - the species name is "fascinator" -

This orchid is "Dracula vampira 'Angelic'" - it has little fang like appendages next to it's mobile tongue-like lip (so many mouth parts on a plant - who knew) - the better to hanlde unsuspecting insect pollinators?

Here you can see blooms inside the greenhouse on a big purple vanda and a Laelia anceps (from Mexico I think) -