Los Angeles Fern & Exotic Plant Sale/Show - 26, 27 July 2014

[epiphyte]

Anybody going to the sale/show at the LA Arboretum this weekend? I definitely plan on attending.

One of the vendors, Yvette, often sells Kalanchoe uniflora. You could buy it and attach it to your tree. After a couple years it would look like this...

I think of it as the poor man's Sophronitis. To see what I mean, check out this photo of Sophronitis cernua blooming on a tree in Brazil. Woah!

Just as spectacular is this Sophronitis brevipedunculata blooming on my Crassula "bonsai"...

Well...maybe it's a little bit less spectacular. But it's sure more spectacular than a Crassula without an epiphyte!

More orchids on trees? Ok!

Here's Vanda tricolor/suavis, a Dendrobium kingianum hybrid and a Dendrobium nobile hybrid blooming on my Cedar tree...

Epiphytes offer plenty of ways to improve your garden's value to space ratio. If you've attached epiphytes anywhere...then please feel free to share the photos in this thread or on facebook...here and/or here.

[Cindy Adair]

Those are amazing! Sure wish I could be there for the show. Maybe next year after I'm retired I could plan a visit to my daughter at the time of the sale? Have fun!

[epiphyte]

Those are amazing! Sure wish I could be there for the show. Maybe next year after I'm retired I could plan a visit to my daughter at the time of the sale? Have fun!

Thanks! That would be a great idea to attach two epiphytes to the same branch.

What do you think about Catasetum longifolium? Just the other day I stumbled on these photos, here and here, of it growing on a palm. It's the first time that I've ever heard of this orchid. Personally I really love the long pendent leaves.

[Moose]

Wish I could attend. Just a bit of a commute.

[epiphyte]

Wish I could attend. Just a bit of a commute.

How about I wear my Google Glasses and live stream my browse through the vendors? You could instant message me if you wanted me to look at some plant's price tag. If you thought it was worth it...you could paypal me the money...and I'd ship you the plants the same day!

Unfortunately, I don't have Google Glasses. If I did, then I'd climb my tree while wearing them.

Maybe we could split the cost of one pair of Google Glasses? I'd mail them to you for your shows/nurseries...and you'd return them to me for my shows/nurseries. Heh. Oh man, we'd go broke. You'd be instant messaging me non-stop while I was walking around Andy's Orchids and I'd be instant messaging you non-stop while you were walking around Tropiflora. Talk about two way enabling.

Heck, maybe nurseries should supply Google Glasses...

Nursery: Would you like to live stream your visit to all your long distance plant friends?

Me: But then I'll be here all day!

Nursery: Sounds like a plan!

Hmmm...but in plenty of shopping situations it would be nice to have instant access to a larger pool of knowledge/experience.

I shouldn't admit this...but one time I accidentally bought a 15 gallon unlabled Magnolia because I thought it was a Ficus. Several months later I said, "Ah, Mr. Ficus, what nice, large, white, fragrant flowers you have!". Had I been wearing my Google Glasses at the time...perhaps one of my plant friends would have instant messaged me, "It's a Magnolia!" As per Linus's Law, given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.