Oncidium Sharry Baby ‘Sweet Fragrance’
This big beautiful orchid was at the Blossoming Orchid Nursery stall at the Mountain View Farmer’s Market today will a “smell me” tag taped to a leaf. So i did, and, despite my congestion a wonderful vanilla scent greeted my nose. I spent some more time looking at the wonderful selection, but returned to this specimen. It’s a large plant, overflowing it’s small pot with one spike in bloom, one with buds, and one just starting up. The grower and i talked for a while about the plant. He doesn’t recommending dividing it because it needs to be big to bloom, he suggests that it needs to be repotted. Apparently the hybrid needs six years to get to blooming size, so they don’t sell many. The black spots on the leaves are due to the temperature changes in the green house, not a disease. I should fertilize it weekly.
- Blossoming Orchid Nursery, Inc, Beatrice and Charles Lee, P O Box 96, Aromas, CA 95004-0096, 831-726-2429
- Plant of the Week
- Susan Taylor’s notes
- About repotting Which i will need to do after blooming
- “Killer Plants” Plant of the week