The Four or so orchids

My dear garden friend was wandering around my desert of a garden and saw a walkway, that only I really knew was a walkway, and it had a cluster of orchids on it. She looked at them and said, there are about 4 to 6 there, get the handyman to put them in the shed and I will use the potting mix you bought and pot them for you......oh what a gift of grace. One that I could not resist.

So I got them carried around. However they seemed to be more than 4 or 6, there seemed to be quite a lot.
Oh well I thought...they all look half dead, despite the fact that they had flowered last year.......about 4 of them had, vbg.

So I watered them. No one had told me you give orchids a drink every day. And they began to grow. And she called in and saw them
and almost fainted. However being the more mathematical of the pair of us I was quite happy to stick to the numbers she has suggested.......lol.

Kind and generous friend that she is, she took them home and re potted them all and she and her DH, he who was disgusted at the den of iniquity, brought them around as I was in my most shameful having been in bed for 12 days state, without even hair washed and I almost have to be dead before I do not keep my hair as decent as possible......so clutching a short nightie....all the rest are long and decent, and a robe around me I watched in awe as this beautiful collection of orchids came back.

Not quite sure where they will live after finishing off the summer in here.
Got told by the DH that I do not re pot. He is quite right......it has become something that has got a little out of hand of late. I have been too busy getting the garden into a respectable state and mulched and weeded and the potting was done for the impatiens and the bulbs but not the cacti and other things inherited from Mother.

So.........it will be so interested to see my orchid collection now. My Mother would be proud of us. A lot of them were hers, some were from a friend's Father and I guess I must have bought some over the years myself.

And here they are. A whole truck load of them came back and were tended under the carport till it was safe to move them to this spot which fortunately my handyman had cleared last year.