Orchid Consultant - Carson Barnes

125 Burns Valley Rd., Loma Mar, CA 94021 www.orchidconsultant.com

Phone 650 879 0982 or try the cell, 650 201 7546 or send an email to orchids at orchidconsultant.com

22 May 2009:  It comes to our attention that some folks don't have the time to click to linked photos, so we've gone back to including some here as well.  Happy Holiday but we're planning to ship Monday anyway.  

Odont types, generally - 4” $21;  12 or 14 in various colors, whites, purples, reds....  All these are selected for double or better (some four spikers) spiking and  color and count.  Splendid things.  Tahoma Glaciers, some branching reds, a couple Wildcats, some  purple and/or speckled Vuylstekearas. Etc,

Miltassias - spidery, tan and dark spotted petals, purple spotted lip, some fragrance, 4" pots, 3  spikes, $21.  Just three!

Miltonias – pansy orchids –4" pots  4 to 6 spikes,  14 plants today.  $20.  Some whites now.  Minimum 4 spikes - well grown ones can.  Quality counts.  Very showy!

Phalaenopsis 5 to 6"pot: Huge fat plants, doubles in 5 to 6" $24, whites....  If you prefer, you can have single stem plants for $20.  Mostly whites, some pinks,some intriguing novelty types available, order up for larger quantities.  Call; available on a day or two notice

Phalaenopsis 4" pot novelties, double  $16.50 doubles +, $15.00 singles.  Available by late Monday, mainly doubles - let's make it worth your while!  Large whites with good height and flower count also, mostly single stem plants.

Phalaenopsis - minis in 3" pot - just five plants, all double spiker pinks.  $11

Brassias - green spiders with spots and fragrance, triple spikers in 6" $22.50, some up to six spikes $25.  These are best described as "Holy Cow!"

Nobile type Dendrobiums - sweetly fragrant, clear yellows this time, three only, flowers coming all up and down at least 2 canes.  4" $18. 

Vandas - coming along, several budded but only one "blue" open enough to ship, $26.  A few ready next week.

Laelia purpurata - you want this double spiked plant.  Rather latge, in a clay pot, 4 blooms on each of two growths, fragrant and astonishing.  $35, one only.

Oncidium - the yellow dancing ladies - compact Sweet Sugar with a lot of blooms and branches, quite large bright yellow flowers 4" pots, $17.50.  Nine beauties!

Vriesia -  bromeliads (not orchids) grown for spectacular foliage, these are multiple growth plants in 6" pots, no two identical;  $22.50.  Five left, more available late Monday.

Sedirea japonica - mini grower with highly fragrant flowers in 3", $14.00.  One double spiker only, looks like tiny Phalaenopsis and very sweet! 

Zygopetalums and Bollopetalums - mix and match now,  double spikers in 4" $20.  Nine this week.

Encyclia prismatocarpa - As you can see, chartreuse with spots, lavender in the lip; double spikes in 5" pots.  Three plants only, $24.  Ready to open now.

Dendrobium smilliae - bottlebrush inflorescence emerges from top of last year's cane.  Very peculiar.  $20.  One only.

Ionocidium Popcorn - 3 to 5 spikes in 3" pots, open yellow and turn pink; five with this spike count, $14.

Paphiopedilum - "Maudiae" or "Novelty" type - great double stem plants - why settle for single stems? - some green and whites, and a few others, $17.50 each.  

Multifloral hybrid ladyslippers - 2 to 3 flowers per stem,  doubles $21.  Hybrids of Pinocchio.  Double stem repeat bloomers!

Paphiopedilum delenatii - one double spike plant with two blooms coming per spike, one flower open around 3 inches across.  $17.50.  Just one like this!

Paph. Honey or similar multifloral ladyslipper - three only, 4", pretty!  $22.50.

Paph. (Candy Apple x rothschildianum) - photo is quite similar - 6" pot, double spike, $35.  Exactly one.

Phragmipedium Macrochilum (Grande x caudatum) - tight, keep these moist, two weeks to open with tails two feet long.  $22.50, three only.

Paph. Gary Romagna again (rothschildianum x {philippinense x rothschildianum) - spectacular, stunning, striped and red and white and black all over, ready to pop in 5", $45, one ready and one tight.  Might be NO MORE this year after these two.

Paph. (moquetteanum x kolopakingii) - orangish and greenish multifloral ladyslipper in 5", one budding now, $25.  One more really tight.  First bloom will go for 4 to 5 flowers per stem, in future expect more - kolopakingii can do 14.  That's not a typo.

Contract of sale.  Shipping cost billed at cost.  We pass along our FedEx discount, or use American or Southwest Air.  Box charge $20 each, up to (25) 4” pots, (14 or 15) 5 to 6” pots, or a mix; small orders, box charge accordingly reduced.  Plants guaranteed healthy when they leave, we pack well and insulate for winter, and declare value on all shipments.  All stock travels at risk of purchaser; we hold "good order" receipt from the carrier for same  and there our responsibility ceases,  though we'll happily help go to bat with the carrier as may be necessary.  Notify carrier (and notify us) and bring claim against the delivering company for damage caused by their negligence, as no allowance for this cause can or will be made by us. Prompt payment please by check, money order, Visa or Mastercard; credit accounts over 30 days may be charged 1.5% interest per month.