- Perfect purple flower color with beautiful patterns
- Easy to grow and bloom, great plant for beginners
- Very floriferous, mildly fragrant
- Water twice per week, avoid direct sun (bright shady conditions work well), fertilize about twice per month.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: these plants are NOT IN BUD/BLOOM when shipped. PLEASE look at all the pictures in this listing so you know the condition/size of plant you'll be getting. SMALL plants are ~2 years from reaching Blooming Size. Near Blooming Size (NBS) plants are 6 - 12 months from reaching Blooming Size. Blooming Size means the plant is at a size capable of blooming at the next bloom season.
Two things make Aliceara Marfitch such a compelling hybrid. First, its perfect purple color – fit for ancient nobility and VIPs. Second, the fascinating patterns on the blooms, as if inscribed with some ethereal hand. The blooms are ones you can admire from afar for their elegance and size (four to five inches across), and up close, for the richness of the color and patterning. Beallara (now Aliceara, for some obscure reason) Marfitch, named after Charles Marden Fitch, a well-known photographer of orchids, originated in the Beall Nursery on Vashon Island in Seattle in the 1960s – 1970s. As far as intergeneric Odont hybrids go, this one traces its ancestry to four different genera, making it a lovely mutt. Marfitch’s flower spikes can bear between 5 – 12 flowers on a well-grown specimen, with blooms lasting around two months (give or take). The particular cultivar we’re offering, ‘Howard’s Dream’, received the Award of Merit from the American Orchid Society. Like most intergenerics, this orchid is very easy to grow and bloom; a bit of cooler temps into the 50s F during the winter is just fine.
