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After waiting 3 years with no blooms, and thinking I must have done something wrong, and maybe it needed to be fertilized -or in a greenhouse or something.....VOILA! A lone lavender flower of incredible beauty and proportion just popped out today! I mean.....I'd given up any hope of ever seeing that bloom and BINGO! I say it like that, because that's how it felt. I mean, I've been watching this plant ever since I bought it at the flower show 3 years ago. I fell in love with the way they had it "planted" on a small piece of driftwood. I was like no other orchid - delicate slender leaves all lined up in a row. She wasn't blooming when I bought her, but her prior owner said it would be a beautiful bloom - and I trusted her. I brought her home and hung her on a frond of my potted Adonidia Palm out by the pool, where I could see Doris' miniature leaves reaching out towards the warm sunbeam peeking through the palm branches. Doris has been perched in that very spot for 3 years now -with no sign of fertility....and every few days I water her, or feed her....but to no avail. She's grown many new
leaves - all perfect shape and a lovely shade of light green.....but until today I had no idea what she would bear. The bloom is on a slender stalk and it's a very delicate shade of pale lavender with a center of slightly deeper lavender, and it sits proudly.......saying.......Hello! I'm here...and I'm REALLY GREAT! - Aren't I?
And...yes....your are wonderful, Doris, and I love you all the more for the wait you made me endure....and so you may think this is all a bit much - just about an orchid, but if you're out there and you're actually reading this blog, I hope you can understand me and my quirks and remember that I'm just a person....trying to live in the 21st century.
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