An Exotic Passion

Hello Everyone,

I`m here at last despite AOL`s best efforts to prevent me. Yesterday the whole computer went haywire with the keyboard refusing to work, then AOL  went crashing offline taking it`s drivers with it. Despite many repeated attempts to re-load them it was having none of it and in the end I gave up. This morning however Jim managed to to it after dismantling everything and putting it back together again and THEN reloading the drivers successfully the first time. I don`t know how he managed seeing as he is recovering from flu and is supposed to be resting. I don`t know, I can`t leave him alone for a couple of hours without him getting up to no good...lol! Well actually it was something good this time but he should have left it to me, bless him.

I wanted to tell you all about my new found passion for orchids. I had absolutely no interest in them at all until I started working at the garden centre. Then I saw them and I was hooked.  The one in the centre pot is a Phalaenopsis and is the one I rescued when I first started work. The smaller one is the same type but a miniature variety which I bought at half price. The one on the yellow pot is a Oncidium Ampliatium and is out of flower for the time being and is resting until the Spring at least, because of this it was reduced to £1.99, a bargain don`t you think? 

One of you, Jeannette (Jottings) I think, commented that I`d probably spend all my wages buying plants. Well I certainly have spent a lot of money there, even with reductions and staff discount. On Friday I bought a three tier outdoor planter for only £10, a bargain of course but I can`t afford anything else until I get paid, unless of course another orchid comes along and then I`m afraid I`ll have to buy it, I`m very weak where they`re concerned, like I said, they`re my passion!

Erm...talking about more orchids, see the little orchid on the right of the photo, well I bought it today, reduced of course.......I told you I`m weak...lol!

Of course I know orchids aren`t everyone`s cup of tea. One customer told me she thought they look like little aliens and that she couldn`t stand them. I know there are some really weird looking ones and they aren`t for me either but I`ve looked at some web sites and found some real beauties and eventually I`ll have one or two of those in my collection. When I came home from work this afternoon Jim said,  "Another orchid, we`ll soon be taken over by them"  He`s not wrong! First thing in the morning I spray them with a fine mist of rain water, not tap water as though don`t like it. Then I check the compost to see if it`s not too dry, then they are placed on the window sill for the day to get the light. Unless of course it`s full sun then they have to be moved to a shadier spot, nothing`s too good for my beautiful exotic friends....lol!

Anyway, must go and eat my dinner then I`ll be back to read as many journals as I can before 9pm. I hope you`ve all had a nice day with dryer weather than we`ve had here. Take care my friends, Cheerio!

 

Thank you Angela for this great tag