What's my orchid?

[Mick F]

Mrs Mick F picked this at Tesco a couple of weeks ago for only £2.50.
They had lots of them on offer left over from Easter.
No label on it to say what variety.
It's very healthy, and it looks great.

Any idea what variety?

[reohn2]

Looks like a purple one to me

[Mick F]

It's actually a bit paler in real life, and Mrs Mick F say's it's pink.

[reohn2]

We've got one similar(a supermarket special)which is a bit paler than yours.

[simonineaston]

Haven't a scooby, Mick... but have you tried a web-based search via your phone camera? We've used various apps when out and about walking, to identify plants and fungi, and they can come up trumps! Here's a link to PlantSnap, which is free - other phone apps are available Wouldn't trust them to make a positive id for fungi for obvious reasons, but they're good fun. Might work for the orchid - or perhaps it'll have a good think and then tell you you've got... an orchid!

[philvantwo]

Moth orchid mick f.

[Mick F]

Found it!
Phalaenopsis also known as The Moth Orchid.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=388

Mrs Mick F asked all her FaceBook friends and they sussed it.

I see Phil has beaten me to it.

[philvantwo]

Faster by far!
Thought you were off out on a 100 mile bike ride.......or have you cried off?

[mercalia]

any one one know what causes this tree deformity? Tooting Common

Ihave never bothered to walk around Tooting Common, as from the road looked rather tame, but there are some great walks both tarmaced and dirt wandering amongst some gorgeous trees and greenary, which scream out "climb me". It seemed all of london was out today.

[Mick F]

Faster by far!
Thought you were off out on a 100 mile bike ride.......or have you cried off?

Cutting the grass, and then catching Doggie who'd run off into the woods .......... and beyond!

[philvantwo]

Thought your chalet had 10 acres mick f?
Can't believe you've bought a dog that's going to out-live you though

[PDQ Mobile]

any one one know what causes this tree deformity

I believe it is a virus.
Results in "burrs" which can have beautiful figuring of the grain and be sought after by woodworkers.
Sometimes small ones can be removed with a well aimed and surprisingly light blow and they have strange root like structures a bit like large teeth.

[Mick F]

Thought your chalet had 10 acres mick f?
Can't believe you've bought a dog that's going to out-live you though

Nearly three acres, unfenced woodlands into other unfenced woodlands and into unfenced into fields. Just high Cornish banks that an athletic Border Collie can scale with ease.

All he wants to do is run. Until he's escaped and run away, I can find him and he'll come back with me.
I'm 67. He's nearly 18m and will live until maybe 15 or 16. I'll be my early 80s.

The main issue though, is that we bought a young parrot in 1985 when I was 33.
She's 35 now and they probably live until they're 80, meaning I'll be 115 or so when she dies.
Meanwhile, she copies my voice, sounds like me, and loves me dearly.

[philvantwo]

Ahhh......Mick F and his beloved parrot.

[mercalia]

Thought your chalet had 10 acres mick f?
Can't believe you've bought a dog that's going to out-live you though

Nearly three acres, unfenced woodlands into other unfenced woodlands and into unfenced into fields. Just high Cornish banks that an athletic Border Collie can scale with ease.

All he wants to do is run. Until he's escaped and run away, I can find him and he'll come back with me.
I'm 67. He's nearly 18m and will live until maybe 15 or 16. I'll be my early 80s.

The main issue though, is that we bought a young parrot in 1985 when I was 33.
She's 35 now and they probably live until they're 80, meaning I'll be 115 or so when she dies.
Meanwhile, she copies my voice, sounds like me, and loves me dearly.Our Parrot.JPG

maybe get some voice recognition software so it can type here esp when you are gone?