Essence of Stanhopea: Stanhopra Wardii Clear

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Stanhopea's flowering now

Some more pictures of my flowering stanhopea's. It appears that our hot weather now is behind us which means that the flowers on my stanhopea's staying open a lot longer. During our hot weather they were open only for a couple of days but now I can enjoy them for about a week and appreciate their delicate blooms longer.

Stanhopea graveolens var aurata


Stanhopea wardii clear

Stanhopea ruckerii var speciosa

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Stanhopea Wardii Clear

Flowers everywhere – my beautiful Stanhopea Wardii Clear opening its flowers this morning. This one is quite a large plant and currently has 18 flower spikes coming through the bottom and all sides of the planter. This variety have huge, crisp, luminous waxy flowers without any spots and flowers appear looking like porcelain beautiful individual sculptures. The color is white/yellow with green tones and the scent is very very spicy. This orchid going to flower for a while with more and more flowers opening up.

If you’ve tried growing everything from Aspidistras to Zinnias and you haven’t tried Stanhopea Orchids, you don’t know what you’re missing. They are easier to grow than African Violets and far more majestic than any other plant. The variety available boggles the mind …

Be warn, though, ever since their discovery by English explorers to Europe in the 18th Century they have caused a “ Stanhopea mania” that continues to this day.

My own first Stanhopea orchid was Stanhopea Tigrina though I didn’t know it. Friend gave it to me as a birthday present – a trip to the library for some orchid’s books was quickly followed by the purchase of some more of these exotic, majestic, beautiful orchids and as they say – the fever had struck.

My fascination with orchids led to great friendships, lots and lots of reading, trips to exotic places (sometimes only through books) and the joy and frustration of growing the world’s most fabulous plants.