After a worry at the start of the week, when returning to work I had found the flower sheath had browned over the weekend. Though the flower still came out and it is a beauty despite grown upside down! This is most probably due to various changes of light while the plant was travelling (from Holland, to the nursery, in transit, to me). I have also discovered that a new sheath is forming, so hopefully will have some more buds to go with the two which are getting larger each day. Should have a nice display soon. Actually I am surprised how large the flower is given that it has ‘mini’ in its name.

Update on my other orchids: my little one’s spike is growing nicely, had to move my yellow Phal from the bathroom as she was getting too cold. One of the spikes was getting browny/red on the ends. May cut it off, see how it goes. The rest of the new growth is doing well. So all orchids are in my bedroom now apart from Cattleya who is at work.

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