Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants #109 Show your Bloomers !! ;-), 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
That is so cute, Mj. Speaking of vertical or horizontal, I've been hanging out on the Orchid forum a bit lately to try to learn about taking care of my few orchids. Asked if, and how to mount my phals so that I could grow them along that fence in the pic above, and the concensus was to mount them on bark like you did and fasten the mounts to the fence some way so I could easily remove them if need arose - cold weather or a hurricane.

Note, though - they were agreed to mount the plant so that water doesn't ever collect in the crown of the plant. Apparently that's an invitation to some rot disease that kills phals quite quickly! You might want to turn that bark mount you showed above sideways a bit so the crown drains?

Cheers Elaine

ps. here's the Mothership, my big Looking Glass begonia of which I now have several babies started - yay!