Orchids are beautiful flowers, often given at Senior Proms and Weddings for beautiful women to carry. They are also a popular house plant and a suitable gift to bring to someone's house if you are invited to dinner. They flower for weeks and then they appear to die. The leaves get a little brown and all that remains of the flower is a stem sticking up in the air. The plants are NOT dead. Take them outside and somehow wedge them into the crotch of a tree or tie them somewhere that they get a little water, not much sun, and....the most important ingredient...total neglect. They will come back to life once or twice a year. Now is one of those times. This orchid has been in our Big Oak tree in the front years for several years and rewards us with these beautiful blooms.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
And an ORCHID in an Oak Tree
Orchids are beautiful flowers, often given at Senior Proms and Weddings for beautiful women to carry. They are also a popular house plant and a suitable gift to bring to someone's house if you are invited to dinner. They flower for weeks and then they appear to die. The leaves get a little brown and all that remains of the flower is a stem sticking up in the air. The plants are NOT dead. Take them outside and somehow wedge them into the crotch of a tree or tie them somewhere that they get a little water, not much sun, and....the most important ingredient...total neglect. They will come back to life once or twice a year. Now is one of those times. This orchid has been in our Big Oak tree in the front years for several years and rewards us with these beautiful blooms.
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