mikews60.bsky.social
@mikews60.bsky.social
Retired, Calgary orchid grower and gardener 🇨🇦🌈 he/him
Lepanthes fimbriata putting on a miniature show!❤️
September 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Finally found a happy place for my Promenaea Florafest Cheetah. First bloom in several years!❤️
August 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Maxillaria tenufolia (the coconut orchid) blooming for me for the first time❤️
July 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Royalty and Miss Canada lilacs blooming in the yard… amazing colour and fragrance❤️
#lilacs
June 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Found my first native orchid in bloom while out for a walk yesterday… Striped Coral Root
#orchids #calgary
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Leptotes bicolor just starting to bloom in my terrarium❤️
#orchids
April 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My first successful Miltoniopsis blooming, I usually kill them long before the bloom. This is Mltps. Princess Diana ‘Red Baron’
April 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My Thanksgiving, Christmas cactus has now become an Easter cactus… Third round of flowers this winter❤️
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Picked up this little cutie at the orchid show in Edmonton last weekend… Bulbophyllum lemniscatoides, flower spike looks like a caterpillar on a stick❤️🤣 #orchids
April 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Spring is poking up in the yard… hepaticas and crocus in the thyme patch❤️
April 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Saw this at my local Calgary Safeway this week… they still have a ways to go I guess 😒
March 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A hopeful sign for spring on my walk this morning ❤️
March 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Cymbidium Red Beauty ‘Carmen’ just opening. Cymbidiums can be so hard to bloom in Calgary with their need for a long cool fall to set buds. It’s been several years since the last time it flowered.❤️
#orchid
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I bought this cactus many years ago on an impulse from a local garden centre… it’s a treat every spring to get these massive flowers (3 inches across)❤️
March 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Dendrobium nobile var. virginalis just open; it’s the last of mine to flower❤️
February 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My Dendrobium nobile and a couple of it’s hybrids putting on a show
February 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Happy (take back our) Flag Day
February 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Happy 60th birthday to our great Canadian Maple Leaf flag! 🇨🇦

Symbol of Canada’s sovereignty, independence, and a beacon to those who value kindness, neighbourliness, good governance, and respect the rule of law.

#CanadianInAlberta

#Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli
#TeamCanada #BuyCanadian #TravelCanada
February 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Paphiopedilum Mrs. White, had 2 flowers this winter…
February 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A newly-awarded #orchid, just awarded this past Saturday, at the Hilo Judging Center. Photo by Ben Oliveros.

C. lueddemanniana h.f. coerulea-flamea 'Blue Brazilian Flame' AM/AOS
February 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Some of my Dendrobium hybrids starting to bloom long with Cattleya mendelii❤️ #orchids
January 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Dendrobium secundum flowering in the kitchen window❤️
#orchid #Dendrobium
January 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Only looking at and only posting #OnlyBeautifulThings today as an act of solidarity and to preserve my sanity.

#Art #Photography #CanadaSky #Canada 🇨🇦 #Alberta #yyc
January 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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* big sigh *
😞
January 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM