Very Pretty! Light looks great as does the color! Love the background—works perfectly! Cheers, Christine
On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > My daughter bought my wife an orchid for mother's day about five years ago. > It bloomed for a couple of weeks, then faded. It didn't seem to be doing > anything for quite some time after that, so I repotted it in a bigger pot > with some orchid mix soil -- which is more like wood chips than soil. It had > hardly any root. Nursed it along for a couple of years, and it started to > grow and send out roots, but it never bloomed. Grace knocked it off the table > once when she was playing, and it spilled out on the floor. I stuck it back > in the pot, and again it was dormant for a while but eventually started > growing new leaves again. Still no blooms. I fertilized it a wee bit now and > then as directed and watered it sparingly as directed without success. > Eventually, I threw a handful of Miracle Gro potting soil on top of the wood > chips and watered it in. That seemed to spur the growth a bit. Last week it > finally bloomed. It was so long ago that it last bloomed, I had even > forgotten what color it was. It's a common variety I'm sure. In fact, it > resembles orchids I saw growing in the rain forest on the big island of > Hawaii. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17628929&size=lg > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
