When special people give you special plants, the plants become incredibly important to me. This is true for all the plants I’ve gotten from my brother and sister. It is also very true for a Cymbidium orchid Leon and I received many years ago from Karl and Sally Hufbauer. Karl is a kind, sweet man and an amazing artist (See his work HERE) and while it has been years since I’ve seen Karl and Sally, I love that this amazing orchid reminds me of them every year.
Here is the plant as it looks today in the very crowded greenhouse:
This is the only full-sized Cymbidium that I have–the others are all much smaller. But this monster is worth the enormous space it demands. Below is a gallery of flower pics over various years.
My 2020 plans for this plant are to split it into three divisions and pot them all up in new bark and moss with some nutrients thrown in. I don’t see any flower spikes yet, which is surprising.