Two indoor plants have finally made it! The violet (below) started as a leaf! No kidding, it started as a leaf cutting and two years later.... the first of the flowers. Weird that the color is actually violet, not blue, but in the picture came out blue!

A flimsy orchid that I purchased last year summer, after almost dying down into sad twigs over the winter, it surprisingly has blossomed with baby leaves and three lovely lavender colored flowers.

I have lovely orchids on my desk and the collection has kept growing simply because folks in my office just don't have the patience when these lovely being stop flowering. I know, though, with a little care these will rebloom under my care. But this post is not about orchids that may or may not re-bloom, but of the lovely new acquistion to my collection. Thanks to the office rotation, it is my turn to get this drop dead gorgeous stunner.

You can see I sit just past the huge label of "Engineering" that labels my work and contribution to healtcare industry.

And talking about orchids, quite a few of these 'abandoned' orchids now have taken permanent residence with me on my dining table. There others around the house and with friends (that I take care), but that is a story for another blog.

The picture shows the center carnations sans the lilies (lilies were moved away) four orchids share the four cornors around the carnations. Two of them are stemming to bloom. I expect their blooms by march (Whoopee! :) ) This is huge, because both these were abandoned and rescued and it has taken me more than 2 years of patiently watering, watching and fertilzing them sans flowers. I am being rewarded by nature! I have never felt so much love back as much as I feel watching these back to life. Duh! Of course stay tuned, I will post pictures when these bloom. I know one of them is pure white, but have no idea what the other one is, it is going to be a surprise! So cool! I love this reward, when it right under my nose, but not there yet. :)

Three months and still going strong! This one made it from Whole Foods and really florishing!

I transported some of the orchids from work to home, simply because I was running out of space at work. Yeah! I prefer my desk at home rather than work, but then doesn't everyone. :)

Anyways, other orchid saved from a careless co-worker doing just fabulously at home. (Er! Sorry dear co-worker, you don't get this one back). As I write this, another orchid, that was 'abandoned' is on the brink of blooming. If I remember correctly, it has beautiful white-cream flowers.

 

I should have posted these a while ago! But, slowly I am sure all my orchid blooms will feature up here!

	Dtps. Minho Princess "S.J." White with purple edging, transplanted 11th July 2007
	Dtps. Jiuhbao Red Rose Dark pink, transplanted 16th March 2007

My April 2007 orchid has bloomed again! Last year the flowers were in bloom from mid-March 2007 till end-August! Incredibly, this year, the blooms started mid-January and it is right at its peak at six weeks+

Last year April brought on my first orchid (See Orchid on my desk). Over the past year, I have become the orchid-collector and caretaker of the office. I have now five orchids on my desk that leaves very little space for anything else and I am happy about that. The one above is the latest acquisition. :) There are two others next to it that are budding! How exciting! I cannot wait for them to flower again. I have never had them re-flower.... well... this is the first time that I have really studied and taken care of them. The first orchid I bought was 10-years ago and I killed the poor thing in one week. I guess 10 years later I am older and wiser about orchids!

My desk and the three orchids!