I never fail to be amazed at the quality orchid growers hidden within my societies.. some excellent growers are very obvious, as they are the ones bringing in the giant specimins for the show table, but then there are the quiet growers, who somehow come out of the wood work and surprise us all!

A friend, Ursula, is just such a grower.. very unassuming, but wow!  She brought me a couple dozen Dendrobium kingianum seedlings that she's been growing since they were itty bitty, and all I can say is WOW.  They are big and beautiful and clean and healthy.. most are busting out of their 4 " pots.     I will be attempting to cool them down to try to set buds, but we'll see about that.  I was unaware of that requirement, which might explain why my own kingianum has only sporatically bloomed for me.  A healthy plant should be covered with blooms!

But I do so love to look at well grown and tended plants.  They are such a pleasure!