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Posted 6h ago by @MariansOasis

It’s Saturday afternoon and despite the forecast of grey ...

It’s Saturday afternoon and despite the forecast of grey clouds ☁️ all day, we’ve got some sunshine β˜€οΈ! The last few days were hectic so happy to just hang out today, water some of the 40 waiting for πŸ’¦, get some laundry 🧺 done and watch a little baseball ⚾️ πŸ˜„. Had to show off my tricolor wayetii who is back in full bloom, again! She gets the award πŸ†πŸ₯‡for blooming. This side of her alone, there are 7 peduncle/blooms🀩🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
What’s happening with your Saturday afternoon/evening?πŸͺ΄πŸŒ± #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #TheWateringHole #Hoya #HoyaHangout #hoyahead floweringPlants">#floweringPlants #PlantTherapy
@MariansOasis So that's what they're supposed to look like!! 😁 It's absolutely gorgeous! πŸ₯° I have one but it's still tiny. It's one of my favorites though.
@princesspitstop It’s beautiful, Heidi! I love the slim leaves and the pink ones.
@MariansOasis The pink stand you have it on is absolutely perfect too! πŸ’— It should be in a Home and Garden magazine. πŸ₯°
@AC73LoveCats For sure! Me too! Any pink and green plant makes me happy but this one especially because of the leaf shape! @MariansOasis How old is your Wayetii?
@MariansOasis Wow! 🀩 so beautiful and all those blooms!
@princesspitstop that’s a pretty one! The coloring of the leaves πŸƒ is beautiful. Just think, one day it will be big and full of blooms like @MariansOasis’s.
@princesspitstop yours is soooo sweet! But yeah, just a bebe πŸ‘Ά
I’ve had mine 4 years. She was about the size of yours now.
@princesspitstop awww thanks ☺️ @RefinedSandwort you two!
Hello @MariansOasis and everyone at #TheWateringHole ! It started out as a productive Saturday with a lot of watering. When you have a new bags of perlite and Bonsai Jack’s Gritty Mix and a bathroom in need of cleaning you know what’s going to happen : plantcrastination! I repotted my Sansevieria Mikado in the pot my moonshine snake 🐍 plant used to be. My Golden Hahnii snake 🐍 plant looked a bit cramped in her 3 inch pot so it got repotted. It was hot in the garage so I stopped the repotting projects. My hubby took me to get ice cream . Still haven’t cleaned the bathroom yet.
What a beauty! Enjoy!
@MariansOasis @RefinedSandwort Oh my Lord! I might not even be around in 4 years to see it get that big! Lol I've got some that have taken off since I got them last year and some that are taking their sweet time.
Beautiful Marian,can you post a few photos of the flowers? 🌺
I love it! @princesspitstop I have one about that size too. I can’t wait to see it grow up like this one day!
@RefinedSandwort your mikado looks great in that potπŸ‘πŸ‘ I’ve never heard of Golden Hahnii snake before, it’s beautiful!
You’ve got your priorities straight Joy! Ice cream 🍦 before all else. The bathroom can wait till tomorrow… or the next day πŸ˜† πŸ€ͺ
I did some repotting and trellising today, and then went to a fun meeting of our local orchid club! The people there were so knowledgeable and I came home with a few babies to try my hand at something other than phaelaenopsis. The host had an incredible greenhouse in his backyard where he was growing at least 100 varieties. He makes these cool β€œorchid trees” out of found hardwood stems, and puts them in his greenhouse to attach his orchids to! It’s stunning!
@MalagueΓ±a I’ll get some pics tomorrow… if I don’t forget πŸ€ͺ
@MamaLinne lucky you to have a local orchid club! That greenhouse of his looks amazing and the orchid trees are such a great idea! I’d dying to know which orchids you brought home πŸ‘πŸ‘
@MariansOasis
Cattleya crispa
Cattleya rex
Oncidium howards dream
Oncidium (unknown variety)
Oncidium Howard’s Dream
Jewel ludisia discolor
Bulb rothschildianum
All for $25! 😱
Her blooms are gorgeous! But those pink and white leaves get to me even more! πŸ˜‚ 🀯
@MamaLinne, your orchids are amazing. I love how you’ve used natural trees and recreated their natural environment. Love it! πŸ₯°
@Idplantthat oh that’s not me at all! It was an orchid club meeting and that was the host. I wish I was that creative!
@MamaLinne so exciting!!!! Howard’s Dream is a Beallara which is a an oncidium hybrid. Gorgeous large purple flowers 😍. I have a Bllra. Big Shot’Pink Leopard’ and I love it! Be super consistent with watering. Mine developed several accordion leaves because I didn’t realize how particular it could be. Cattleyas were the first non Phal I tried. Got a wee one but didn’t realize it needed more light than I was giving it and not enough water. It was so little, like 2” pot and was drying out faster than I expected. I have a Brassocattleya that’s one of my favorites. It’s grown a lot but has bloomed just once. That jewel orchid is so pretty!! Unbelievable price for all those! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘
@MariansOasis oh! I will use you as my orchid gal!! That Howard’s dream was free!!! I’m excited to see if I can get them to bloom.
@MariansOasis and yes, both of those cattleyas are in 2” pot. Thinking of putting them in my little humidity box until they get a bit bigger!
@MamaLinne freeeeee!!!!!! πŸ«ͺ😲 That’s one fabulous club πŸ‘
I learned early on that it takes a lot of patience to grow baby orchids and have them survive and bloom. Fortunately the ones I’ve tried and πŸͺ¦ weren’t very expensive. Sometimes it’s worth it to spend some money on a more mature one so you’ve got something going on while waiting for the babies. Still I haven’t paid more than $40 maybe?
Whoah! That's beautiful 🀩 I like all the crazy leaves!
@MamaLinne looks like a good haul and a good outing!
@MariansOasis yes the babies were like $5 so I thought what the heck! Then the more mature Oncidium were $5 too. So I just picked up an assortment and will just go for it!
@MariansOasis @MamaLinne @princesspitstop @RefinedSandwort @Idplantthat Oooh, I guess it’s variegated wayettii/kentiana time! It has been on my wish list for about a year now, and I finally took the plunge and ordered one.

But… I’m nervous! I paid for two day shipping, they left on Thursday, my UPS app says they have arrived in PDX early this morning….but they’re not due until Monday!!! Ack!! (two BUSINESS DAY shipping)!! 😬😬🫣😩🫠🫠 What, are they just going to hang out in a warehouse tomorrow (Sunday)??! It’s not supposed to get past 80Β° but I’m nervous for my babies. 😬🫨🀞🀞 send me all your good hoya vibes πŸ˜‚ I need to get in the variegated wayettii fangirl club 🀣

Also Joy, your priorities are excellent πŸ‘Œ ice cream first, bathroom later! πŸ˜‚
@MariansOasis Marian she is beautiful. I hope my wayetii wants to be like yours when she grows up πŸŒ±πŸ˜ƒ
@princesspitstop Heidi mine looks like your such a little beauty
@RefinedSandwort beautiful Joy. Plants first housework second
@FitBrowallia Hi Jonchel! πŸ‘‹ They get to grow up together! πŸ₯°
I spent the day in plant heaven. I had funerals for the ones that didn’t make it through my vacation and I smiled over my 1st of several plant mail to soothe my heart over the dead ones. So I repotted them and reorganized them all to make sure everyone is okay.
@princesspitstop yeah πŸ₯°
@MamaLinne wow so beautiful 😻
@MamaLinne wow great price and pretty plants
@DreamMachine ack!!! Fingers crossed the warehouse is climate controlled!!!! Sending good Hoya vibes! Let us know when it arrives πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘
@FitBrowallia awww thanks Jonchel! ☺️
@FitBrowallia oh they all look so cute. So sorry some didn’t make it thru vacation time. But it happens, right?! I’m at the point with plants that they make it or they don’t. I used to fret over every little thing from watering to pests and more! Now it’s like, oh you’ve got pests and it’s driving me crazy trying to eradicate ! Be gone with you! Usually get sent outdoors, and if they still aren’t getting better we’ll, at least they got to πŸͺ¦ under a blue sky with their planty friends πŸ€ͺ
@FitBrowallia what’s the plant in the blue pot? Looks like a birds nest of some sort?
@FitBrowallia looks like it was a good day!!
@MariansOasis it’s a hurricane fern
@RefinedSandwort yes it was
@MariansOasis yes I was the same. Stressing out trying to figure out what I did wrong and now oh well there are others that need love
Wow. She is beautiful. What kind is she?
@MariansOasis Wow, what an incredible Wayetti, Marian! I agree with @princesspitstop that the pink plant stand is PERFECTION 😚

I lost a Wayetii to root rot years ago and you’re making want another one 🀩
@RefinedSandwort You definitely have your priorities straight πŸ‘πŸ» Plants over bathrooms EVERY time!

We need pics of your Wayetii please, Deb πŸ€— @MamaLinne and those orchids are out of this world! 🀯
@DreamMachine Keep us posted on your en route plant! 🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻 I tjink they should refund the 2-day fee πŸ˜’