[JamesK]

Here is a list of the orchids I have so far.
Funny story goes along with the last on the list. My beautiful wife likes to tease me about how I have been bitten by the "orchid bug". We went to a local nursery to get some herbs and such for the gardens this spring. We went in and I saw the orchids from the door. I swerved the cart toward them, intending to just look at what they had... They had quite a collection of phals, and some oncidiums potted up in "special arrangements". Very pretty. Then Mary said "look to your left." I did and there were more! Cybindiums and others I didn't know. I went over there and was looking at them. Then she said, "look behind you." More orchids! On another table was the Vuylstekeara Melissa Brianne "Tawny Tart" AM/AOS. I looked at the price of it, and it was on $20 US. A deal I thought, since it had the most striking deep purple (with yellow center) flowers. I picked it up just to look at it, and my beautiful teasing wife says, "You don't have one like THAT! Go ahead and buy it!"
I thought this was a really good thing, then I realized something.
"Mary are you going to tease me about buying this orchid?" I asked.
"That's part of the fun of it isn't it?", she answered.

So I got the orchid, and she gets to tease me, and enjoy the beautiful flowers when they are in bloom. We both love them, and it sure beats buying cut flowers that just die. At least with the orchids I get to have them bloom for me again and again. (Only rarely do I kill one.)

Here is the list of orchids that she teases me about. I've bought most since October of 2007.

Orchid Name:

Dendrobium NOID - Purple
Dendrobium NOID - White
Phal NOID - Pink
Epi Stomfordiam "Belize" x epi Stamfordium "#1"
Den Ckai "OKA" x Chanaliculatum
Phychopsis "hildos" FCC/AOS
Phal - Dtps Sogo Berry "Sweetheart"
Brassia Caudita Alba "Jem" JC/AOS
Den. spectabile
Phal New Wave 'Spring Meadow
Bulb. likcrium
Phal Equestris Alba
Phal Glad Dawn "Shenandoah"
Den Thonacha Gold "Kanolcporh"
Epi rosioscriptum
Epi corifolium X self
Zygo "Kiwi Geyser" "Mendenhal"
Baptistonia echinata x compretha macroplectron
Onc. Little Angel (foxuosun x onustum)
D. Niraporn Baby Snow x D. Taksin Oberon No2
D. Taksin Utopai X D. Taksin Mary Caine
Den. Kingianum
Onc.viperinu "J&L" AM/CBM/AOS
Onc. Twinkle
(Mini) Vuylstekeara Melissa Brianne "Tawny Tart" AM/AOS pronounced - vul-stek-ee-AH-ruh