| Dear c.whitcomb,
It's not odd at all that you'd have cattleyas and dendrobiums in spike now. Both cattleyas (most ones that I know of - all of the ones I grow) and dendrobiums (many hybrids and a lot of species - and again all of the dendrobiums that I grow) are all winter bloomers. My cattleyas, especially bloom not in late winter or spring but in the beginning/middle of winter, December/January in the Norther Hemisphere, June/July in the Southern Hemisphere.
I don't grow many Dendrobiums, some Aussie native hybrids, kingianum, tetragonum, chrysotoxum. Of these, the chrysotoxum was the latest, blooming in November (late spring). The others bloomed in winter.
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