Dragon's Orchid Garden

Wayne found this mega tea cup at a yard sale Friday. From Blogger Pictures We put it to practical use by planting red Gerbera daisies in it. From Blogger Pictures

I am delighted by orchids.  The huge variety, somewhere around 25,000 species in 880 genera, means that one could collect and study them for a lifetime and never see all of them.  Eric Hansen wrote a riveting book, Orchid Fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy , that describes the lengths to which people will go to find rare orchids.  I read this book before I had an interest in collecting orchids.  It is that good of a story.  I read it right after reading Susan Orlean's, The Orchid Thief , then seeing the movie.  Coincidentally, I was given my first orchid soon after reading these books.   While many orchid plants have large flowers... From orchids some of my favorites are the littlest ones.  Last year I posted a picture of our little cleisostoma chrochettii. From orchids It has such perfect tiny orchid form.  Also tiny is this ascocentrum miniatum.  It is blooming now.  I took this picture earlier this evening while Wayne held a ruler so you can see the how