Last night’s meeting named this very orchid a “hard to grow” one…I read it many times over a past couple of years this plant could be challenging to grow and to flower…Now, I do like challenges and when I researched the conditions needed to keep “Nelly” happy it sounded like it’s a match for me!

It’s is second year with me and it is third time flowering since I brought it home, currently having 5 flower spikes…I loved it so much that I had to buy the “dark red” version as well, and flowering (almost done) with the first spike and growing 3 more…

I changed them into their new medium (coconut coir) in July and they seem to like it, it was keeping their roots nice and cool…