Our Orchid Helps Fulfill our Fall Colour Quota

Our Orchid

We don’t usu­ally have great luck with plants, although we inher­ited quite a few that sit on the ter­race from the pre­vi­ous owner of our condo. Pam has lost 1 to an infes­ta­tion, and added 1. So far, so good.

We were pleased to get this orchid as a gift from our neigh­bor a lit­tle less than a year ago. After it lost it’s blooms, we fig­ured that it would at best be alive, but that would be it. Sur­pris­ingly, it has bloomed again. Maybe liv­ing in this exceed­ingly mild cli­mate means that more exotic plants, like orchids, have a chance here.

I know these blooms will be over by next month, but they cer­tainly are a nice splash of colour for now, and are much appre­ci­ated, since we left behind the spec­tac­u­lar fall foliage of New Eng­land.