Tag: Chad Haney

Open house at Orchids by Hausermann 2015

We made it out to the open house at Orchids by Hausermann today. I think we missed the open house for a few years. I was happy to purchase a flowering maple (Abutilon) today. They had a really large one for many years but none for sale. This year we saw a few small plants and I had to have one. We picked up another un-potted cattleya. They are a bargain at $9.99 and smell wonderful when they bloom. We also took a chance on Epidendrum pseudoepidendrum which is the delicate orange and pink flower in the photos. The one we purchased has two buds (the one in the picture was a sample, not for sale). We also have some buds on our existing collection of orchids along with our bird of paradise. I’m looking forward to trying to propagate the flowering maple.

More about the flowering maple here:

http://goo.gl/AR1yrO

I’m at Hausermann’s looking for Orchids.

19 inches of snow, Superb Owl Sunday

My friends in the UK say it’s snowing. My Canadian friends and I say, “that’s cute”. The side streets are still messed up. My MINI Cooper would have been no match. I got it beached in the snow once. Even my Touareg TDI with AWD briefly got stuck in the alley. I was tempted to buy snow tires. When I was a kid in Michigan, everyone had snow tires and at least one bag of sand or salt in their trunk or boot at my British friends say. I don’t have a bag of sand or salt in my VW but I have a small shovel. I had to use it to dig out a Camry. That wasn’t the workout I wanted on my way to work.