Ralph Carlson Blog

This week I have a pink cymbidium blooming.  This is one I got since coming to NorCal.  I helped a lady divide and repot some cymbidiums she had gotten from her mother in SF.  I would have picked another if I knew it was pink.    It is pretty nice for a pink however and because it bloomed for me, it gets a place of honor.  So far only my green from the SoCal collection has bloomed here for me but I havn’t given up yet.  Ever the optimist, I bought another cymb at the SF Garden Show last week.  This one is a beautiful white.  At least the mother plant is.  I have a start which will take a year or so to reach blooming size.

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