Be sure to come next time we meet for orchid shopping in Apopka, Tara! The selection is amazing and the prices are half or less what you pay at a show or fancy nursery.
That one I just posted above dependably blooms twice a year for me. Winter and summer, like clockwork. Once you get them acclimated, they can be real work horses.
Also, both Jim and Ursula have very large collections, hundreds of orchids and many different kinds so they naturally will have something in bloom all the time. I have a smaller collection, so I do have times when I go a month or two with nothing new in bloom. Nice thing about orchids, though, is that many of them bloom for a loonnngg time. Phals sometimes bloom for 2 or 3 months, and that Encyclia Green Hornet Jim showed above seems to be just about always in bloom. I bought one of those on Jim's recommendation years ago, and it's amazingly floriferous and smells wonderful. I just hardly ever post it because it would be a repeat.
