FOTD – FEBRUARY 6, 2019 – SO GROWS THE ORCHID
It’s fun watching the orchid unfold and seeing the other buds growing bigger. I’m hoping for a long bloom this time and I hope I have more time to take care of it and be able to bring it back again.
Meanwhile, here is today’s orchid. It’s not fully open, but it’s getting close.
I have learned that all the very dark colored orchids are dyed. So when you buy a red or dark blue or purple flower, when (if) it blooms again, the next time it will be its natural color which typically is a dark center with white, sometimes veined, petals.
Categories: Cee's Photo Challenge, Flower of the day, Flowers, Marilyn Armstrong, orchids, Photography
Beautiful orchids I admire them and strangely today I was in a nursery and they were selling heaps of orchids, not something I was aware was so popular down in my valley in Tasmania. I admire them but have never wanted one. I was so interested to learn that they dye them as a plant. wow, how confusing if you are buying them. Yours are lovely and the photographs and light fantastic. May all your buds flower so beautifully.
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It’s a very complicated structure and that’s what makes it so beautiful.
Leslie
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It is and it is beautiful. Especially today.
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Especially today….hugs to you both.
Leslie
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