Welcome to the third installment of A Week in Flowers. Cathy at http://www.wordsandherbs.wordpress.com invited us to share a post a day for a week of flowers in our gardens. Today I am featuring orchids from my South Florida garden – they stay outside year round here. Follow the link to find more flowers from around the world.
Fragrant white Cattleya Orchids live in a pot outside my low slung living room window. These bloom every September and I enjoy watching them and usually cut some for a vase to enjoy the flowers and fragrance up close.
Orange landscape orchids (along with Gallardia) are a fairly common sight around here. These are Epidendrums; sometimes called Ground Orchids. I had some in the garden, but they squirrels dug them up so many times they withered and passed on.
The Orchid tree, not really an Orchid, but a very pretty flower. This is Bauhinia purpurea, I think.
This Orchid tree has purple Cattleya orchids that grow on the trunk. This is my neighbor’s tree, so I see it daily when flowering. One of my favorite summer plantings.
That is all for Day Three. Happy Flower Watching!
The Shrub Queen 
You are so lucky to grow these amazing flowers. The orchid tree will grow about 30 -40 miles south of me, but not up here. I tried.
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It is pure luck!
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How lovely to have these beauties in your garden! I love the pinky purple one in the last photo. đ
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Thanks, I enjoy them.
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Love the orchids, we used to bring orchids back from Singapore in the days when we traveled abroad.
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Thanks, I imagine Singapore is fabulous with orchids and tropicals.
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I do admire your orchid tree. The Cattleya Orchids are fantastic–can’t imagine growing them and to have a neighbor with them too!
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The Orchid Tree is just starting to flower. One of those pretty pains, reseeds everywhere. The Cattleyas came from my neighbor, who is much better at orchids than I am.
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These are beautiful, and the epidendrums are particularly eye-catching. I wish I could grow orchids outside in our trees! Alas, not to be!
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Mistletoe?
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Nope, too cold here. NJ is the northernmost part of its range. We don’t have any epiphytes here, but Virginia Creeper vine is good enough, I guess. đ
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That is weird, I have Virginia Creeper here! Probably the only plant we have in common. Unless you have Oxalis, I think everyone on WP has that.
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Yes, of course, a persistent stoloniferous one!
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