Monkey Mojo and Flowers

roughedges

roughedges

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Yellowish ones!

One of my orchids just bloomed for the first time since I purchased it last year, I thought it'd make a good backdrop for some knives.

The pics didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked. Woulda looked better with larger more frilly :D flowers. I've got a few more about to bloom I may try it with.

I need a light box.

And a steady hand.

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Little Flowers!

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As you can see, though damaged, the TMBM factory sheath is still more than serviceable. :)

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Don't be jealous just yet KAAK... the temps have been hitting the low 90s in the shade and its not even may yet.

Sorry, I forgot you are in Alaska. thats POSITIVE 90s. :D

That backdrop is a low growing kind of weeping bamboo- I hope that it entirely envelopes that table before summer really gets here.
 
voracious said:
hmmmmm....
Dendrobium aggregatum?
nicey-nice.
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exactly. hell yeah!

next to bloom is dendrobium parishii. I'm particularly happy about that one because I had forgotten it would drop all its leaves come winter time and I thought I'd killed it.
 
hey bro. parishii rocks, too!
raspberry smell. sexy lil' thang.
got superbum?
pics pics pics. don't forget some knife content :)
hey i'm gonna be in bradenton next week. where you at?
 
No superbum, but I've been eyeing them for awhile now. Itll be soon. I am really starting to get into the dendrobium species now.

Right now I have the parishii about to bloom along with ascocentrum miniatum, brassavola perinni, vanda lamellata, epidendrum alatum and a catteleya hybrid that I forgot to detail in my notebook and stupidly lost the tag of. I remember that it has large red flowers that smell like watermelon though and that one of its parents was awarded AM/AOS (hah, finally I get to use acronyms that confuse the Hogs instead of getting confused by them myself!). It's looking like it will have 5 or 6 blooms this year.

If you all don't mind photos of the same knives over and over I will post more as the flowers bloom. :)

I'm down in West Palm Beach, 200 or so miles south of where you will be. If you have any extra time in Bradenton though you should take a trip down south a little ways to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. They've got a amazing orchid collection.

I bet its twice as incredible at this time of year.


knife content! I still have yet to be able to injure my Natural Outlaw in any way other than making a kinda smooth spot on the coating from chopping through branches.

I've decided that I need more users. I have trouble having that TMBM out there so near so many invasive trees just begging for the chop.
 
roughedges said:
If you have any extra time in Bradenton though you should take a trip down south a little ways to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. They've got a amazing orchid collection.
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thanks! i love selby gardens! my wife and i have been members since '99 or so.
and i have 4 or 5 fishing holes to hit on the way back!
i love fla!
i've got family down there. mom's moving down this year.
 
Yeah, Marie Selby just had some issues over dried orchid flowers from peru missing permits or some such craziness, they took a full page ad out in Orchids Magazine to apologize and I guess they got fined or something... I understand the need but its kinda strange that a research garden gets sanctioned like that in my opinion.

If you are ever in south florida voracious drop me a line. I'll show you around the nursery and dirt floor forge. In the next month or so we will be setting up an area for phrags, oncidiums, phals and paphiopedilums (heck, any shade loving orchids) in a stand of australian pine.

Also plenty of maleleuca and florida holly to take steel to! :D
 
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