Monday, February 24, 2020

On Sundays She Tends Her Orchids


I have eight of them on our dining table -- a location that seems to agree with them as seven of them are in bloom right now and one is covered with buds.


And every Sunday I water and fertilize them, do a search and destroy for scale (it is always lurking,) and appreciate anew their exotic beauty.


3 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

You clearly know what you are doing.

Barbara Rogers said...

I'll have to learn about scale...and how to destroy it, since I now have 2 of these, one is still blooming. The other was a Thanksgiving bloom. I need to repot her soon.

Tara said...

I need to up my orchid game. I've been looking at YouTube videos on orchid care. Now to actually do it. They are one of my favorite flowers; I once worked with a woman whose father raised and sold orchids. She would bring in boxes of them to share with her co-workers. We were so lucky!