Putrajaya FLORIA 2012

              This is an update on Floria Putrajaya that I promised on the last entry, well it takes quite sometime, cause I have to deal with a lot of things lately. Anyway finally I managed to do this post that should have been done weeks before..Thanks to my friend, Mr. Ahmad Makarimi from Orchids de Dangau blog by lending me his pictures. Actually, I was there a few day earlier, preparing a landscape competition for our orchid society, so all displays have not been properly set up yet, unfortunately the day before the show officially open, I had to go back, so I ended up with no pictures of the opening day..

              So for those who did not make it to Floria this year, this is for you, though not much, hope you'll get the vibe..

              Inilah dia entri sambungan yang OC janji dalam entri lepas, walaupun sepatutnya dah dibuat beberapa minggu sebelumnya, apapun akhirnya dapat juga OC buat entri kali ni..Sibuk sangat sampai blog ni pun tak sempat nak buka..Kali ni OC guna gambar-gambar ihsan kawan OC, En. Ahmad Makarimi yang berada di sana semasa hari pembukaan. Terima Kasih..Sebenarnya OC ada beberapa hari sebelum tu kerana terlibat dengan persiapan lanskap orkid mewakili Persatuan orkid negeri Pulau Pinang (FOMOS), nak dijadikan cerita OC kena balik sehari sebelum pembukaan, jadi memang tak sempat nak ambil gambar apa pun pameran yang telah siap.

             Jadi untuk tatapan kepada pengunjung blog yang tak sempat kle Putrajaya tempoh hari, ini lah serba sedkit yang dapat OC kongsikan bersama..

Lets take a look on orchid show pictures first..

Kita tengok gambar-gambar pertandingan orkid dulu..

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...and now some of the nice floral exhibition indoor and outdoor..

...Di floria ni ada pameran di bahagian luar dan dalam..

 An outdoor landscape displays, 

featuring flower and insect sculptures made from rattan..

 A bed of colourful chrysanthemums

 

 Under the 'golden showers'

 An entry to the indoor displays..

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        Flower arrangements from top floral artist from around the world..a unique and creative approach..I like all these indoor exhibition very much..

        Gambar-gambar gubahan bunga daripada artis-artis gubahan bunga terkenal dunia..sungguh mempesonakan..!

 Philippines

 United Kingdom

 Japan

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A wall type floral displays..

Ini gubahan bunga yang dilekatkan pada dinding..

another floral scape display..

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 Below is a large scale floral scape from international group of florist.. 

Yang di bawah ni pula, gubahan flora berskala besar dari grup artis-artis antarabangsa..

          This is the completed coral reef scene which I've posted 'the making' of it in previous post. Fantastic..! Really-really loved this one..making a good use of empty mineral water bottles!

          Wow..! Ni yang OC paling suka..memang menyerlah !..OC ada letak gambar 'display' ni masa ia sedang disiapkan dalam entri terdahulu..dan inilah hasilnya..tak sia-sia menggunakan botol-botol air mineral yang kosong...

There, a feast for the eyes for flora enthusiasts..see you in Floria 2013..!

Jumpa lagi di Floria 2013..!

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. 

                                                                        - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Stenia pallida

This was purchased as Stenia calceolaris but proved on blooming to have been wrongly identified.  Both that species and this are found in Ecuador, but this has a much wider distribution and is found also in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Brazil.    And while I would have preferred what I ordered, am happy enough with this species and its attractive flowers..

The plant grows to 12 cm and produces a fan of leaves that are rather attractive in their own right.  The flowers are 6 cm, huge for the size of the plant, and are produced singly on semi-pendant spikes.  The plant is considered warm to hot growing but it does fine for me in cool to intermediate conditions and is grown in live sphagnum in a net pot (the decorative pot is only for photos).

Laelia sincorana

Laelia sincorana in one of the smaller Laelias (though now reclassified as Sophronitis).  Related to Cattleya, it has very large flowers for the size of the plant and very showy flowers as well.  Both plant and flowers are 10 cm and this year my plant produced three flowers, two from one growth and one from another growth.  The flowers are seasonal, however, and the plant only ever blooms for me in the spring.  All the growths produced at other times of the years are without flowers.

Ornithocephalus cochleariformis

I purchased this as Ornithocephalus gladiatus which it definitely is not.  I am reasonably certain that I now have the ID correct, however.  The plant is around 10 cm and grows in a tight fan.  The flower spikes come from between the leaves and stand erect above the plant.  They are 7-8 cm long with flowers that are between 5 and 10 mm.  The plant blooms reliably every spring and is one of the few Ornithocephalus that I do not have trouble with, mostly because my conditions are too cool for them.

The name Ornithocephalus means "Bird's Head" and refers to the shape of the column.  There are approximately 20 species in the genus, though there seems to be a great deal of confusion about the different species and I see many plants and photos that are mislabeled.  They are all desirable for the abundance of blooms they produce even though the individual flowers may be very small.  A well grown plant can be completely covered with flowers, usually in white or a combination of white and green.

Masdevallia coccinea 'Dwarf Pink'

This is the dwarf form of Masdevallia coccinea, about half to two thirds the size of the ordinary form.  The species is from high altitudes in the Peruvian Andes and requires cool to cold temperatures with good humidity and air movement.  Mine seems to bloom best when it is given quite high light, high enough to turn the leaves a bit yellowish and seems to like it just a bit wetter than some of the other Masdevallia species.  I grow it in live sphagnum in a plastic pot, but not a net pot.  When happy it blooms profusely.

If anyone wonders about the colors, the flowers open a dark pink and gradually fade to a very pale pink, at least under my conditions.

Dendrobium seranicum 'Brendan' CBR/AOS

Dendrobium seranicum is another species in the Oxyglossum section of Dendrobium.  Most of these come from New Guinea, a few from the surrounding areas, and almost all are cool to cold temperature plants.  One of their most notable features, though is the long-lasting quality of the flowers, often six months or more.

This species is not as showy as some, but beautiful in its own way.  The plant is 8 cm tall and the dark pink flowers 3 cm.  The flowers are carried two at time at the top of the pseudobulb and between the leaves.  The pseudobulbs continue to produces flowers at intervals even after they lose their leaves.

My plant, one of them, was awarded a Certificate of Botanical Recognition (CBR) by the American Orchid Society at the Northwest Orchid Society Show in Shoreline Washington in April.  It now has a clonal name that is the name of one of our grandsons and is still in bloom two months later with new flowers forming.