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This is Ancho "San Luis", which I hope to use in some interesting southwestern cooking when I start feeling creative in a spicy-food-sort-of-way:
Here are two un-named phalaenopsis orchids. The white is having its second bloom since I got it on Mother's day this year.
The yellow one is having it's third bloom in 17 months and appears to have another flower spike growing from its base. I don't know how I got so lucky, but our prairie sun does make the orchids thrive here (that's indoors, of course)!
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I've got a similar yellow one and unlike all of my other Phalaenopsis it is fragrant. Don't know if applies to all yellow ones as it's the only yellow one I've got!
I have kept a couple pepper plants going for three years now. The fatali did not even fruit the first year (I called it five leaf fatali). However, I have ample habaneros now. I had bug problems last year but hopefully they haven't hitched a ride for this winter.
easygardener - you know, I think I remember noticing that this yellow one had a slight scent too when it first opened. I remember thinking that was odd, because my other phals had no scent.
ottawa gardener - what in the world do you do with peppers as hot as habaneros? I was sticking with the less hot varieties, thinking my family might actually eat them.
17 months! Wow. I have a pink one blooming since Mother's Day also. They are wonderful plants and make great long lasting gifts.
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