August Orchids Bloom

 Usually I have the least blooming orchids during the Summer time. Here are my three orchids:
1) Dendrobium miniature
     I received it as a favor at our year end BCOS pot luck dinner party this year (6/20/2017). It has been blooming for almost three months.
2) Encyclia, Green Hornet
     It starts to bloom at early Summer until now! last very long time and easy to grow. I divided it many times and gave away to my friends.
3) Encyclia, E.Mariae
     This one I also received as a favor couple years ago. It has been blooming faithfully ever since.

My Garden and Feather Friends

This Summer, we hired a "season nursery" landscaper to plant four trees- Weeping Cheery, Dogwood, Crap apple and Japanese Maple in our front yard. Plus he added seven Azaleas, rearranged and grouped cornflowers, and other existing plants. Our front garden appears complete for now.
The cornflowers had been attracting a lot of butterflies (monarch and Canadian tiger swallowtails), now the flowers are fading away, many yellow finches have been flying back and forth to pick up the seed pods. It is fun to watch and always makes me smile!