Phal. Bellina orchids

I'm so frustrated. My two Phal. Bellina orchids that I bought months ago have died. First, there were signs of growth. Then the leaves began drying out and dropped off. Slowly, I watched the roots drying and soon, the two plants were as dry as a bone. One of them had been bought from the Penang Floral Show at the Botanical Gardens, Penang in May 2007; the other was purchased from a nursery in Gurun something in January this year. Above: this is all that remained of the two orchids. Just the bases. It's unbearable. I can't throw them away, especially the tree fern base.

In my frustration, I visited a nursery near my house and came away with this new Bellina plant. Hopefully, it'll be third time lucky.


By the way, I also picked up this tiny, little, wee, puny, tender, fragile, dinky, minuscule, teensy, neat, petite, juvenile, baby nepenthes plant. Cute, eh?