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My dendrobium pendulum and tillandsias:

 

An intermediate cymbidium

 

Not really house plants but in the cold porch, it never gets any sunshine this time of year.

 

Kalanchoe.

 

Mammillaria bombycina

 

Odontoglossum Mont Rossignol.

 

@cactus_girl please can you tell me where you bought a named odontoglossum? I thought all we could get these days are Cambria types!

 

@CarolineL I bought it from Burnham Nurseries in Devon at least 15 years ago. So it is quite old. It loves the north facing windowsill and grows quite quickly. I often have to cut slices off to get it to fit in the pot. Next time I do this I may be able to pot up the offcut.

 

Thanks @cactus_girl - I bought my first orchids from Burnham more like 45 -50 years ago! I thought they had gone over to mostly species ones. As a student, I even drove over to Mansell and Hatchers nursery in Leeds to buy orchids- sadly they've long gone.

 

@CarolineL when we went around the nursery all those years ago I didn't know much about orchids at all. I thought it looked nice as it was flowering away. It was actually looking a bit pale, but hubby said he wanted it. We drove back here and then I thought what is it? So I did email them to find out.

These days I just try different orchids out on the kitchen windowsill. I don't seek out anything in particular. This is my only named one - the rest are SM or local GC ones, usually from the bargain basement. But I am surprised at the different ones you can get in the SM.

I think odontoglossums have been renamed? But I really don't follow such things so I have no idea really!

 

In a friend's house, kalanchoe daigremontana(?) flowers well. I've now acquired some plantlets...

 

The Sarrencenia flava flowers have dropped their petals leaving the style. With this warm weather they are taking up a vast quantity of rain water.

 

Mine are only in bud but kept outside permanently.

 

My cleistocactus has decided to flower after many decades. It's 5ft tall and in the porch. It gets many strokes by visitors.

 

Nice to see it flowering @cactus_girl Mine has died back and lost a lot of its height and hasn't flowered for several years, so it's good to see yours in good health