Yes, here are some more orchid pictures. I cannot get over how fantastic these flowers are. First a new one I bought this morning …

I bought this rather nice greeny-cream with pink blush (almost a Hellebore colour; it’s much creamier than the photo suggests) orchid in our local Waitrose. It had been sitting there looking forlorn, very dry & tired and with a couple of wilted flowers for the last 3 weeks. I’ve looked at it every week and rejected it. Today when I looked at it the second time, I thought I’d ask if they’d sell it to me at half price. To my surprise and delight they agreed.

Having brought it home, taken off the wilted flowers and given it a good water it already looks 100% happier. OK, so it has only these three flowers and a couple of buds to come. But it is rather pretty and who knows I may be able to nurse it back into flowering properly next year.

I also bought this one at Waitrose this morning …

It is a very pretty blushed pink — much prettier than my photo shows. It is profuse with flowers and with at least another 8 buds to come, so well worth paying full price for it.

And finally another shot of one of the orchids I’ve had for some weeks and which is still flowering well.

In fact all my orchids are still flowering well, the first has now been in flower for something like 10 weeks!

They look magnificent, especially when you put them all together in a nice sunny window.

As I say I can’t get over how fantastic these flowers are. OK so mine are all Phalaenopsis hybrids, perhaps the easiest of the orchids — but then that’s why they’re easily available and so cheap.

I really don’t mind, they just look stunning!