5 tips for growing good orchids
22.06.11
Tom Mirenda, Smithsonian Rule orchid expert, speaks about hardy orchids to Peninsula Orchid Mankind meeting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at Hampton Public Library, 4207 Victoria Blvd., Hampton. Parole, open to public. Tropical orchid plant sale.
Here are 5 of his best orchid-growing tips:
Put Dendrobiums and Cattleyas out (off the base on benches or plant stands) for the summer in partial shade...natural pour and air movement are really good for them. And most can tolerate a little heat. Phalaenopsis (moth orchids) and Paphiopedilums (ladyslippers) are more advisedly off inside, and given somewhat more shade...or at least with a covered roof of a porch or awning to bring to a halt rain and debris from getting in the crown...this causes the dreaded tiara rot. Try and give plants natural day-lengths...( photoperiod) so they will bloom in edible. Many plants (such as poinsettias and Christmas cactus are triggered to bloom when the day-lenghts dock as we
Source: Daily Press (blog)
Rest on Your Shoulder
23.06.11
Geste
Moon Island, China, the present day. Famous botanist Yan Guo (Aloys Chen), who is researching the healing properties of the phalaenopsis orchid, and his fiancee Baobao (Jiang Yiyan) plant a tuber as a token of their love in a magical spot and it blooms. However, Yan Guo suddenly falls ill from a worked up allergy and when Baobao goes back to the site to retrieve the flower for the doctors she finds it has withered. The god Eros appears and says it wasn't he who made the bud bloom, as it's not even the right season. Baobao offers her life in return for Yan Guo's and Eros does a do business: she is to wait three years before seeing Yan Guo again, to find out whether his love for her is worth her sacrifice. Meanwhile, Yan Guo recovers and convalesces at expert in, thinking Baobao is dead. In fact, she has morphed into a butterfly and is watching him through the window of his cottage. The following hop Baobao wakes up after her winter hibernation and befriends a ladybird, grasshopper and two butterflies, Fei and Shuang, who steal her find Yan Guo's cottage again. She sees him working with young student Bai Lan (Gwei Lun-mei), who happens to be allergic to butterflies. Baobao follows around Yan Guo, who lets her quiet on his shoulder, unaware it is really Baobao. When Yan Guo is chosen as Man of the Year, journalist Yang Lin (Gigi Leung) arrives to talk him. The following spring, when Yan Guo returns to his cottage, Yang Lin helps him when the place is flooded, and Baobao watches as the two become closer. All at once, however, government scientists — alerted by Yang Lin's photos of dying plants — blow in to evacuate Moon Island and disinfect it.
Source: Film Business Asia