This is a pretty typical week's wholesale list; quantities and varieties available ready to open vary, and where not ready but in demand they're mentioned early on. It changes each week, and as new varieties become available they're added on.

 

Carson Barnes - Orchid Consultant
125 Burns Valley Rd., Loma Mar, CA 94021 http://www.orchidconsultant.com
Phone 650 879 0982 or try the cell, 650 201 7546 or email carson@orchidconsultant.com

20 September 2008: Spectacular Odontoglossum/"intergeneric" types this week, both 4" and massive 5-6" pot plants.  Monday's about half gone for shipping,

Odont types, also called Oncidiinae, Intergenerics, or “novelties” - 4” $21; some few Vuyl. Cambria x Oda. Florence Love flaming fuchsias, some Tahoma Glacier 'Green', some reds, more modest fragrant and branching double Miltonidiums than the 6" listed below; one Odontioda flaming purple and orange patterned; various others; what's your favorite color?

Miltonias – pansy orchids –4" pots  Just seven plants, always with at least four spikes. $20.  Reds, waterfalls.

Phalaenopsis –5 to 6” pot: Huge fat plants for maximum time open, 1 to 3 flowers open per stem, doubles in 6" $24 and mainly whites, also some few pink or novelty color numbers.  Singles $20.  Call ahead as we pick these out to order.

Phalaenopsis – 4” pot novelties, double  $17.50 doubles +, $16.50 singles.  Available on a day's notice, including some very pretty reds in singles and doubles.  

Vandas - many blues coming (photo is of one parent);  $28 with 8+ buds; with names.  Got a greenhouse?  These ship best when just about fully open.  Also a few of our large plants reblooming out there....
Onc. Sharry Baby - the "chocolate orchid" - 4", double spikes, ready to open to tight, nearly four feet tall with many branches coming on the stems;   $17.50, 4 or 5 available, rather tight, like a week or ten days to open.  1 inch red flowers with some white on the lip, and spectacular in numbers.

Onc. Sweet Ears - just one, branchy golden with chestnut petals, $14 in 3".
Brassavola Little Stars x cordata - "ladies of the night" meaning night fragrant, spidery ice green and white clusters, 3 spike plant, just one, $23.
Miltonia Anne Warne 'Abe' AM/AOS – satin purple with lighter mauve lip fragrant Brazilian warm grower; 3 spiker  $22.50, 4 spiker $25.  Just two plants remain.  Opening now.  Light colored leaves normal!
Odontoglossum (Rhynchostele) bictoniense var. aureum – quite a mouthful – chartreuse with white lip, warm tolerant, cute;  doubles (few) $22.50.  Light colored leaves normal here as well!
Zygopetalum - one 5" double spiker, $20 opening; two 6", a double and a triple, $20 and $22 respectively.  Quite fragrant.  

Cattleyas - big yellow/red lip or dark wine reddish standards, $27.50 for double stem plants; fragrant, ruffly, flowers generally 5" or better, selected for double blooming leads.  

Cymbidium Golden Elf – lemon yellow, fragrant, 3 - 4 spikes, $30. Just 2 in 1 gallons, ready to pop.

Odont types in 6", tall Miltonidium (we think), branchy plus, barred with white and pink lip and fragrant, huge double spikers, $25; 2 or 3 available.  Also a red 4 spiker $25, a pair of Melissa Briane purple 4 to 8 (!) spikers, $25, and a nice batch of tall double spiked Marfitch which look like purple starfish, sort of, $23, plus one or two big Odcdm. Hansueli Isler gold with speckles, doubles @ $23, several big Burr. Living Fire red with patterned lip,$23.  

The ladyslipper orchids:
Novelty ("Maudiae type") Paphiopedilums - a good number;  double stems in 4", $17.50. Green/whites, coloratums, vinis.  One triple spike green $18.50.
Paph Armeni White x primulinum - white sequential/multifloral, 4", $20.  Just one.
Complex Paphs - $18, eight or nine with names. Shape rather like the photo, waxy, various color types.

Shipping details! Shipping cost billed at cost.  We pass along our FedEx discount.  Or use American or Southwest Air.  Packing $20 per box, up to (25) 4” pots, (14 or 15) 5 to 6” pots, or a mix; small orders, packing charge accordingly reduced.  Plants guaranteed healthy when they leave, we pack well and insulate for winter, and declare value on all shipments.  Notify us immediately of delay or damage. Payment please by check, money order, Visa or Mastercard; credit accounts over 30 days may be charged 1.5% interest per month.