Summer Hummer Mail Order Thank You/Wish you were here… Special Offering! This is our time of year to send off our email offering of plants at special prices to say thank you for ordering in the past and to encourage you to yes, ORDER AGAIN SOON. Some of the plants are offered at very reduced retail prices and others are too few in numbers to list. Most are new while some are just plain really great plants we think you will find well worth adding to your collection. Aerangis fastuosa We have offered this species before, but it is so fantastic, $15.00 we decided to grow it from seed once more to make it available again. An e-z-2 grow miniature orchid from Madagascar. Very fragrant at night! Flowering size plants. Neostylis Lou Sneary ‘Blue Horizon’ Our finest Neost. Lou Sneary. Superior in all aspects: $15.00 deep blue color; very vigorous; and of course, wonderful candy-like fragrance. A super plant for beginners or windowsill growers. Blooming size. Aerangis somalensis Seedlings of this very rare species from Eastern Africa. $25.00 Unusual and very cool, wavy green leaves. Short sprays of white fragrant flowers. Great root structure. Very limited offering at a super price. Lycaste collection A super chance to build a nice collection of high quality Lycastes. Three new seedlings from three different $50.00 crosses. Flowers will be large, like Lycaste skinneri, in a variety of colors from pink to red with a chance of some albino whites. Near flowering size. Brassavola subulifolia A fantastic, showy species from Jamaica (formerly known as B. cordata). Distinctive terete leaves will produce $15.00 enormous clusters of green and white flowers which are very fragrant at night. Nice seedlings to grow on. Photo courtesy of our friend Claude Hamilton. Epidendrum Package Super nice seedlings all bred to produce huge heads of flowers for excellent displays. The package is three new $25.00 seedlings which should bloom next spring. We will pick three different crosses to give you a wide variety of colors. Great chance for awards! Dendrobium Tosca ‘Shiraz Ice’ Beautiful flowering size meristems of our very showy wine $15.00 colored Australian Dendrobium. Easy to flower and proving to be super popular. These are very durable plants and make beautiful specimens. Flowering size. Laelia anceps ‘Helen’ HCC/AOS A very desirable cultivar from the Dawsonii group of this $35.00 ever popular Mexican species. Large blooms for the type. Flowers are pristine white unless flowered under very high light when the color will have a hint of pink tint. Useful for breeding. Flowering size. Limited. Laelia Eximia Wonderful seedlings in sheath with buds coming! A fabulously vigorous primary cross between L. purpurata $20.00 and C. warneri. The large flowers are similar to L. purpurata in shades from white to pink with dark lips. Summer blooming. C. guttata ‘Kathleen’ HCC/AOS X C. bicolor ‘Calliope’ HCC/AOS $15.00 An exotic primary hybrid between two spectacular Brazilian bifoliate species. The plants will be fairly tall, but will be show stoppers with large clusters of flowers. Flowering size. Paph. Deena Nicol ‘Jamboree’ HCC/AOS X sanderianum ‘Jamboree Tails’ $15.00 New! Showy huge flowers with tremendous long petals from this multifloral hybrid made by Norito Hasegawa. Award quality. Nice seedlings in rose pots Blc. Chia Lin ‘New City’ AM/AOS X Pot. Tokyo Bay ‘Victory’ SM/JOGA $10.00 Showy large pink to lavender winter blooming cattleyas.. Blc. Chia Lin was Grand Champion at the Tokyo Dome Show and is a proven breeder. Near flowering size. Epidendrum Ice Castle We started blooming these this year and they are fantastic. Large heads of sparkling white flowers that $20.00 bloom over a period of weeks. These plants are imported from Japan, and have a ‘horticultural’ name, not registered with the RHS, but pure white albas. Super nice flowering size plants Cattleya warneri semi-alba Cattleya species are all the rage, and we love this one $10.00 from Brazil. Beautiful flowers are sparkling white with varying amounts of purple on the lip. Spring blooming. Easy to grow. Near flowering size. Epidendrum parkinsonianum Super Mexican species that has a wonderful succulent, $15.00 pendulous growth habit . Fragrant flowers. Nice, cork mounted, flowering size seedlings. Recently thought to be quite rare, these were grown from seed here at Cal. Lc. Black Forest ‘Dark Splendor’ This new and exclusive introduction is fantastic. For the $15.00 breeding, the flowers are quite large. Nice compact plants, this is a hybrid between short stuff L. pumila and Lc. Edisto, a beautiful dark standard Cattleya bred by Gene Crocker. A very easy grower. Near flowering plants. Coelia bella $15.00 This is a wonderful and seldom seen species from Mexico and Guatemala. Specimens boast dense displays of beautiful three toned flowers. Easy to grow. Laelia anceps roeblingiana X Laelia anceps ‘Gigas’ $20.00 Seedlings from this new line of breeding. A very special L. anceps crossed with the peloric Roeblingiana. It remains to be seen if the petals markings will pass on to the progeny. Flowering size. Limited Paph. delenatii ‘Big One’ X Paph. delenatii ‘Colorama’ $35.00 Beautiful community pots containing approximately 15 seedlings of this high quality cross between this wonderful species from Viet Nam. Another exceptional opportunity. Christmas gifts, anyone? Bc. Punakea ‘Lee’ $15.00 A really fantastic novelty Cattleya hybrid with B. nodosa in the background that is a perfect candidate for show specimens. A cross between C. Lulu and Bc. Maikai. Nice small size meristems. Prosthechea abbreviata ‘Quincy’ $20.00 An now for something different. This Costa Rican species is a fantastic plant for miniature collectors. Will readily make distinctive specimens and soon be covered in flowers every June. Fragrant. Flowering size. Prices are from 25% to 50% OFF list price. Minimum plant purchase is $50. To order, send your Email to [email protected] with your name and phone number and we will call YOU to finalize the order We will pull your plants then ship your order the week of July 11th. Hope this helps all our loyal customers who can’t come to the sale! Offer expires July 10, 2016 .