I loved seeing how you grow your orchids. I have the same philosophy, I keep mine in my living space, no extra equipment, and they're there for me to enjoy looking at. I live in a very different climate with a lot less space, but it is still very informative and delightful to watch your videos!
Thank you for taking us around. It got me rethinking on where I have my orchids currently and how they are doing. Some are very happy, others are just there.
Thank you for addressing the elephant in the room with us plant lovers. Aesthetically Pleasing Displays. I’m aiming myself that direction and have them at least on 2 decent pieces of furniture but I refuse to (and I know it will ruffle feathers) set ugly shelves in front of windows then hang lights over them. We grow similarly I am in the opposite hemisphere though and grow nothing outside. Keep up your interesting, informative work and for being charming and entertaining as you do it!❤
Hi Matthew! Love watching your videos. The way you present your orchids is in a storytelling way! I am also an amateur but many, many miles away in a similar climate in Ecuador! The difference is the altitude… 2700 m above sea level🗻! Next time I visit my daughter in Melborne, would love to visit your garden!
Holy smokes, what a vast collection plant lover! I admire so much your command of the English language and I always learn something from you. Thank you for the lovely tour of your beautiful growing spaces🪴🌱🌷
What a wonderful tour. You have a quite extensive collection and it all looks so luscious and healthy. It’s impressive how many grow spaces you have. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hi Matthew, would love to see a series of videos of how you transition to the new house! Wondering how that’s going. Would love to see how you manage to move all this many orchids around… Do you shrink wrap all of them…? Of course the new grow space too!
Well I might.....it will be quite a task and videoing it might be a bridge too far! I move plants in large plastic storage tubs from a hardware store - just without the lid on! Keeps them all upright and contained. I weirdly love packing/unpacking and moving ( a result of a childhood with a father in the services and so constantly moving). It should be some time towards the end of next year. Watch this space!
TY. I asked for this video and you delivered. Your collection is massive and looks like you've been "orchid-ing" all your life. Your knowledge and success is awesome. So glad I found you to learn and drool!🙋♀
Hi Matthew! I have just paused the video! I'm like you, I like to place plants according to the aesthetics of the room. So, if the area is not well-lit, I try to choose a plant that can cope with that but (hopefully!) still creates the look I was after. I too do not use grow light or humidifiers (although there are some gorgeous overhead grow lights out there). I love my plants but it's important, for me, that they work well with the rest of the space. Now! I'll continue watching your video!!! (I love your background bookshelf area 😍). PS I'm in Melbourne too.
Thank you so much for sharing. This makes a concrete idea about your way of culture. In France houses are like rabit cages. Your outside culture place is impressive.
Awesome tour, I really enjoy it .... but .... how MANY orchids do you have, WOW .... hehe, put me to shame with my little ONE orchid plant, hehe. Matthew I can't wait till you give us the tour of your new house's grow rooms.
I have been wondering about your grow space , but I didn't want to ask . Glad you did the video. Its nice to be seeing plants walking around the house. 😀
Just finished watching the whole of your tour, I’m exhausted at the the thought of how you keep up with the moving around of all those orchids, I thought you only had a small collection but boy have you got some plants and they all look so beautifully healthy. Can’t wait to see your new set up.
Wow, your house is fabulous! It makes me so happy to see others who have every inch covered in plants (I'm not alone, yay!). Thank you for giving us a tour and my god, you've got so many beautiful orchids, bromeliads and other treasures all over the place, love it.
Wow 😲 what a fantastic collection of grow spaces. There's a very tasteful combination of not just orchids but other attractive plants too and there's such a variety. How do you keep them all looking so healthy? It must be a full-time job. Well done Matthew 👌 👏
this reinforces the idea that there's an orchid for every location, you might struggle finding just the right orchid, but there is one. I too live in a "zone 9" (san jose, CA), so I'm going to try starting with Australian Dendrobiums, they seem to be pretty hardy.
It's said....Melbourne is closest to a Zone 9...but we don't have a zonal system system in Australia and everything is subjective! That said I'd say you will do fine with them outdoors! Good luck!
@@helloplantlovers the main difference seems to be that here in San Jose, CA we do get frost, so I'll have to plan to bring the outdoors ones indoors on occasion. would be a problem with a collection as large as yours, but my space is very limited so I think I'm good !
Thank you for sharing your grow spaces! It has inspired me so much to utilise my home for my plant babies. I live in Cape Town and the weather is very similar here, so your videos help me a lot to see growing orchids in a different light (pardon the pun). Thanks again!
Loved the tour! I live in a climate 8b (pacific NW USA) so i get some freezing in the winter, lots and lots of rain, but summers rarely hit the 90’s. I’m finding it difficult to organize any outside areas for orchids. Not to mention, which ones?! Yikes! Anyway, loved your tour. I hope I can come up with a few areas around our 1/2 acre (sea level) I can keep a few orchids outside in the summer. Nobody grows orchids up here so I am alone in my trial and errors. Ha!
Thanks so much for sharing all of this Matthew. I love all of your different grow spaces and how you incorporate orchids into your decor. Your videos are some of the best orchid vids on youtube. You inspired me to try out aussie dens. So far so good. Looking forward to your next vid.
Wow! Do you have a bunch of plants. I never would have guessed it. Thanks so much for showing all of your grow spaces. I do enjoy your standard video format, but I would love to see more videos of you showing plants in your grow spaces. And how do you keep up with watering and grooming everything?
Thanks Matthew - and yes - I'm going to try and include the 'where they're growing' scenes from now on as I know it helps trying to figure out where to grow them in your own environment!
My goodness 😲,Mathew! 👏Thank you for sharing your BEAUTIFUL home ( love the style of decor soo much 😍). I was at Wow! when I watched your outside growing spaces ( red table is fabulous! ). You created such a fantastic, private 🌱🌿🌾oasis . What a great vision and talent you have👏. Was there a 🦜 i heard in background ?😉😀. Can wait to see how your creative mind plays in your new home. Enjoyed reading article about your NYC apartment, what a inspiration you are ,brawo 😀👏. Looking forward to see more videos from your growing species. Have a great weekend 🤗🌷.
I most admit that I got several dead orchids on my conscious, it's just recently I figured out. Living in Sweden is not the ideal place to grow tropical epiphytes, the humidity, warmth and sun is a challenge. I got my little collection of mostly seedlings in a small indoor greenhouse, with a lightbulb giving the amount of light they need ( I can't offer special treatment ) So far they are doing good. The best I did to them, was giving them a clay pot, the risk of having rotten roots is not going to happen anymore
@@helloplantlovers You know what, today, just because I was looking at your video here, I just had to look them over, and guess what, my first flower is on its way, a Maxillaria tenuifolia😆
OMG Matthew, you have been holding out on us, you sly dog... amazing collection. Can't wait to see the new space, indoors and out. Would you also add videos about non orchid plants? Thank you.. from very very northern cold Minnesota. (We aren't all nuts..)
Ha! Thanks for watching Nina - and thanks for your kind words. I did do a few non orchid videos early on but they didn't really fly. I do, however, co-produce ANOTHER channel with a famous Australian horticulturalist and that is about rare and unusual garden plants, here's the link to that: ua-cam.com/channels/VP0JO-cSUUScAkI3YXpKRA.html
Thanks for the great video Matthew. I'm thinking of buying young orchids online in clear media in jars. Do you have any videos of when & what media to use when planting out these babies?
I do have a de-flasking video here: ua-cam.com/video/MWG9X3F0PH0/v-deo.html In a nut shell: wash the plant-lets well and use sphagnum moss, keep them moist but not wet and a little warmer. Good luck!
I’m not sure you the amateur you claim to be. You must have quite a bit of experience to have such an extensive collection. You have wonderful grow spaces!!! 😊
Thank you for posting the tour Matthew. I am very interested in the home renovation journey you're working on and am wondering how thats coming along. The second channel has not been updated in some years now i see.
@@helloplantlovers Good to hear that there's been progress. I'm sure you've done incredible work on it. Im a timber frame builder by trade and have a deep appreciation of historical buildings and very much enjoy tasteful restorations. I also enjoy gardening and the natural world, and most recently dove into orchids as a new hobby. Finding your channels has been a real gem. Your passion for orchids really brushes off - I purchased some paphs I didn't know I needed in my life here recently. Best of luck with the restoration and hopefully you can find the time some day to post a general update.
Matthew thank you for the tour of your home growing spaces. . It’s now 2 years later and I am wondering if you made a video of your grow spaces in your own home since you’ve moved back there? Cheers Cheryle
Love all your interpretations. They are complex flowers to grow, but love them and I have a few, have been lucky and flowered a couple. Love the new glasses. Thank you .
Mathew, Pulcherrima, we in Aus. say “pull-ker-imma” Loved your tour! What are you going to do with all those Doritis when they grow up a bit? There don’t seem to be many individual plants available at nurseries around here.
Oh thank you - pronunciation is NOT a strength! Well - I only wanted one! And no, I'd never seen them for sale. So we'll see. Either swap or sell or giveaway. So far 100% success rate!
Beautiful indoors and the outdoor space is incredible! I'm not sure that you can get away with claiming amateur status with a successful collection like yours :) I also put many orchids outside out for summer here in Canada. However I put them where they can get rain so I don't have to worry about watering them as much, I'm more concerned about wind so I have them where they get a little protection from the Southwest where most of our storms come from. You mention protecting your orchids from the rain. Can you please explain the reason why you don't want the rain on them? I also have to worry about creatures disturbing the orchids, but here it is squirrels. I put lots of cacti out around the orchids and the thorns help keep the squirrels off the plant table.
Squirrels + cacti! there's a solution! The rain protection issue for me is that here, in summer, the temperatures can be quite variable so we can get more warm, almost tropical like rain - which is fine as the ambient heat causes evaporation and great humidity, but we can also get drenching, cold rain which sets in for days and can be problematic. So that's my reasoning!
Another question on watering. How do you go about properly watering all of your plants that you have in the house while not getting everything else wet, such as tables and the floor?
Firstly - I have a very laissez-faire attitude about watering outside! I use a hose in warm weather and a can in winter so I can be more targeted - or with-holding! Inside, I just use a small watering can with a fine spout and carry a tea towel with me just in case of drips. But having surfaces that can't be damaged by water really helps! And if the plant's saucer is sitting on timber I put felt pads underneath the saucer to lift it a little and stop any damp transferring to the timber below. Probably takes half an hour every 4-5 days in summer to water everything. And I mist things as I pass them at least once a day. There you go - not that much of a hassle.
As you don’t use fans If you get long periods of still weather (hot or cold seasons ) with very little breeze does it affect your plants re lack of ventilation ?
Yes this is what I am starting to understand. Perfectionism is open to disappointment & if it was perfect there’d be nothing to learn 😂 Go with the flow & enjoy the beauty. Thanks for sharing your passion
I loved seeing how you grow your orchids. I have the same philosophy, I keep mine in my living space, no extra equipment, and they're there for me to enjoy looking at. I live in a very different climate with a lot less space, but it is still very informative and delightful to watch your videos!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for taking us around. It got me rethinking on where I have my orchids currently and how they are doing. Some are very happy, others are just there.
Thanks for watching! Yes, I had a few that just 'were' and then I moved them and ta dah!
19:22 😍👍 a paradise for orch lovers
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful thank you❤
Thanks for watching!
Your plant collection is just amazing. Thanks for the tour
Thanks for watching!!
I'd also be interested in a tour of your non-orchid plants, especially the outdoor ones!
I think I'll stick to orchids on this channel!
What a pleasant surprise, who knew you had so many fabulous plant's. Thanks for the tour it was great.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for addressing the elephant in the room with us plant lovers. Aesthetically Pleasing Displays. I’m aiming myself that direction and have them at least on 2 decent pieces of furniture but I refuse to (and I know it will ruffle feathers) set ugly shelves in front of windows then hang lights over them. We grow similarly I am in the opposite hemisphere though and grow nothing outside. Keep up your interesting, informative work and for being charming and entertaining as you do it!❤
Thank you very much for watching!
Hi Matthew! Love watching your videos. The way you present your orchids is in a storytelling way! I am also an amateur but many, many miles away in a similar climate in Ecuador! The difference is the altitude… 2700 m above sea level🗻! Next time I visit my daughter in Melborne, would love to visit your garden!
Ah you come to Melbourne! How amazing! And how lucky you are living in an orchid 'hot spot'! Thanks for watching.
Love it! Love it! Love it! Your outdoor spaces and plants are lovely, beautiful and I'm so happy that you shared this with us.
Thank you!
Awesome outdoor growing area 😊 glad to know we can grow orchids that can live outdoor all year long in Melbourne. Thanks for sharing 🌿
Thanks for watching!
Your Gloxinia is gorgeous! Love to see a care video for Gloxies!
Thank you!
oh goody !!!!!! as you keep surprising me with more and more and more.
Thanks for watching!
Your outdoor grow space looks like your own garden center! Thanks for sharing your indoor / outdoor areas.
Thanks for watching! It is a bit...mad!
@@helloplantlovers lovely,madness!
I enjoy watching your orchids, also learning a few things, thanks for sharing.
Holy smokes, what a vast collection plant lover! I admire so much your command of the English language and I always learn something from you. Thank you for the lovely tour of your beautiful growing spaces🪴🌱🌷
Thank you very much for watching!
What a wonderful tour. You have a quite extensive collection and it all looks so luscious and healthy. It’s impressive how many grow spaces you have. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Glad to learn your new house is in the offing, wondered about the lack of videos re it’s progress but didn’t like to ask 😊💕🌺
We're crawling towards actually starting!!!! A looooong bureaucratic journey!
What a spectacular place, indoors, outdoors and so many beautiful plants, thanks for sharing Matthew
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this awesome tour! I absolutely love what you have. I learnt a lot
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful collection, I thought I was in a Melbourne Botanical Garden!! Just lovely.
That's very generous of you - thanks for watching!
Hi Matthew, would love to see a series of videos of how you transition to the new house! Wondering how that’s going. Would love to see how you manage to move all this many orchids around… Do you shrink wrap all of them…? Of course the new grow space too!
Well I might.....it will be quite a task and videoing it might be a bridge too far! I move plants in large plastic storage tubs from a hardware store - just without the lid on! Keeps them all upright and contained. I weirdly love packing/unpacking and moving ( a result of a childhood with a father in the services and so constantly moving). It should be some time towards the end of next year. Watch this space!
Not a Doritos chips commercial playing literally right after you mistakenly said “Doritos.” So crazy. 😭🤣
Ha! Thanks for watching - I still see ‘Doritos’ when I see that orchid!
TY. I asked for this video and you delivered. Your collection is massive and looks like you've been "orchid-ing" all your life. Your knowledge and success is awesome. So glad I found you to learn and drool!🙋♀
Thanks for watching!
Your garden and all the orchids are great, and shelves full of interesting books..
Thank you for watching!
Hi Matthew! I have just paused the video! I'm like you, I like to place plants according to the aesthetics of the room. So, if the area is not well-lit, I try to choose a plant that can cope with that but (hopefully!) still creates the look I was after. I too do not use grow light or humidifiers (although there are some gorgeous overhead grow lights out there). I love my plants but it's important, for me, that they work well with the rest of the space. Now! I'll continue watching your video!!! (I love your background bookshelf area 😍).
PS I'm in Melbourne too.
Ah! Great to find a like minded spirit! Thanks for watching!
@@helloplantlovers Oohhh!!! I loved your (rental) home tour. The north facing window and outdoor covered area are amazing!!
hello!, thank you for the lovely tour, happy growing
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing. This makes a concrete idea about your way of culture. In France houses are like rabit cages. Your outside culture place is impressive.
Thank you for watching - yes I try to balance the difficulty of the space with gratitude for actually having it!!!
Awesome tour, I really enjoy it .... but .... how MANY orchids do you have, WOW
.... hehe, put me to shame with my little ONE orchid plant, hehe.
Matthew I can't wait till you give us the tour of your new house's grow rooms.
Oh dear.....I have JUST begun a digital inventory, largely so I don't double up! Let's say a healthy amount!
I have been wondering about your grow space , but I didn't want to ask . Glad you did the video. Its nice to be seeing plants walking around the house. 😀
Thank you for watching it!
Just finished watching the whole of your tour, I’m exhausted at the the thought of how you keep up with the moving around of all those orchids, I thought you only had a small collection but boy have you got some plants and they all look so beautifully healthy. Can’t wait to see your new set up.
Thanks for watching! I'm looking forward to new digs too!
I always worry about enough light for my orchids…looking forward to this video ❣️
Thanks for watching - yes light is ALWAYS the key!
Wow, your house is fabulous! It makes me so happy to see others who have every inch covered in plants (I'm not alone, yay!).
Thank you for giving us a tour and my god, you've got so many beautiful orchids, bromeliads and other treasures all over the place, love it.
Thank you for watching!
Your home and garden are lovely, thank you for showing them to us! :)
Thanks for watching!
Wow 😲 what a fantastic collection of grow spaces. There's a very tasteful combination of not just orchids but other attractive plants too and there's such a variety. How do you keep them all looking so healthy? It must be a full-time job. Well done Matthew 👌 👏
Thanks for watching - I think once you get the basics right plants tend to look after them selves! I'm so not into high maintenance things!
this reinforces the idea that there's an orchid for every location, you might struggle finding just the right orchid, but there is one. I too live in a "zone 9" (san jose, CA), so I'm going to try starting with Australian Dendrobiums, they seem to be pretty hardy.
It's said....Melbourne is closest to a Zone 9...but we don't have a zonal system system in Australia and everything is subjective! That said I'd say you will do fine with them outdoors! Good luck!
@@helloplantlovers the main difference seems to be that here in San Jose, CA we do get frost, so I'll have to plan to bring the outdoors ones indoors on occasion. would be a problem with a collection as large as yours, but my space is very limited so I think I'm good !
Hola i love it Beautiful orchids 🥰 ☺️🙏I am doing the same project with the Vandas. I planted it in clay pots and it is working. Good luck.
Excellent! Yes mine seems happy - it's in a mix of pumice stone and sphagnum moss and is growing well!
Thank you for THE tour, I just enjoyed it and I love 'Chines Red' and old statement pieces from antique or thrift shops. Many regards!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your grow spaces! It has inspired me so much to utilise my home for my plant babies. I live in Cape Town and the weather is very similar here, so your videos help me a lot to see growing orchids in a different light (pardon the pun).
Thanks again!
Thanks for finding me and glad this was useful!
Thanks for sharing your home with us. Beautiful
Thanks for watching!
Love the madonna and child painting !
Isn't it fabulous! 17th century Spanish and probably cut down from a bigger painting.
@@helloplantlovers yes ! Thought it looked real ! What a treasure ! Love your channel and your fabulous orchids !!!!!
I’ve always wondered what your space looked like. What a collection. You’ve got so many! Can’t wait to see what you do when you move.
Ha - me too! Well, we'll cross that bridge eventually! Thanks for watching!
Loved the tour! I live in a climate 8b (pacific NW USA) so i get some freezing in the winter, lots and lots of rain, but summers rarely hit the 90’s. I’m finding it difficult to organize any outside areas for orchids. Not to mention, which ones?! Yikes! Anyway, loved your tour. I hope I can come up with a few areas around our 1/2 acre (sea level) I can keep a few orchids outside in the summer. Nobody grows orchids up here so I am alone in my trial and errors. Ha!
A pioneer! Well good luck! You will find some that will thrive i your conditions definitely. And thank you for watching!
I hope we will get to see the court yard at Bon accord when its finished.
Yes! I'll definitely do a story about setting up there...who knows quite WHEN....!
Great video, really enjoyed.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for sharing all of this Matthew. I love all of your different grow spaces and how you incorporate orchids into your decor. Your videos are some of the best orchid vids on youtube. You inspired me to try out aussie dens. So far so good. Looking forward to your next vid.
Thanks for watching! - and Aussie denrobiums are SO rewarding - good luck!
Wow! Do you have a bunch of plants. I never would have guessed it. Thanks so much for showing all of your grow spaces. I do enjoy your standard video format, but I would love to see more videos of you showing plants in your grow spaces. And how do you keep up with watering and grooming everything?
Thanks Matthew - and yes - I'm going to try and include the 'where they're growing' scenes from now on as I know it helps trying to figure out where to grow them in your own environment!
My goodness 😲,Mathew! 👏Thank you for sharing your BEAUTIFUL home ( love the style of decor soo much 😍). I was at Wow! when I watched your outside growing spaces ( red table is fabulous! ). You created such a fantastic, private 🌱🌿🌾oasis . What a great vision and talent you have👏. Was there a 🦜 i heard in background ?😉😀.
Can wait to see how your creative mind plays in your new home. Enjoyed reading article about your NYC apartment, what a inspiration you are ,brawo 😀👏.
Looking forward to see more videos from your growing species. Have a great weekend 🤗🌷.
Thanks for watching and your very kind comments! - could well have been a parrot - lots around here at the moment!
@@helloplantlovers ❤
wow, that was inspirational.
Thanks for watching!
Wow! You’ve been hiding these growing spaces and healthy plants! Thanks for the tour.
Well thanks for watching!
I most admit that I got several dead orchids on my conscious, it's just recently I figured out. Living in Sweden is not the ideal place to grow tropical epiphytes, the humidity, warmth and sun is a challenge. I got my little collection of mostly seedlings in a small indoor greenhouse, with a lightbulb giving the amount of light they need ( I can't offer special treatment ) So far they are doing good. The best I did to them, was giving them a clay pot, the risk of having rotten roots is not going to happen anymore
Good luck! Sounds like you're off to a good start!
@@helloplantlovers You know what, today, just because I was looking at your video here, I just had to look them over, and guess what, my first flower is on its way, a Maxillaria tenuifolia😆
Poetic!@@sfinx69
Great growing spaces Matthew! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
OMG Matthew, you have been holding out on us, you sly dog... amazing collection. Can't wait to see the new space, indoors and out. Would you also add videos about non orchid plants? Thank you.. from very very northern cold Minnesota. (We aren't all nuts..)
Ha! Thanks for watching Nina - and thanks for your kind words. I did do a few non orchid videos early on but they didn't really fly. I do, however, co-produce ANOTHER channel with a famous Australian horticulturalist and that is about rare and unusual garden plants, here's the link to that: ua-cam.com/channels/VP0JO-cSUUScAkI3YXpKRA.html
Great video! Such a lot of space to grow.🙂👍
Thanks for watching!
Great video mattew
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great video Matthew. I'm thinking of buying young orchids online in clear media in jars. Do you have any videos of when & what media to use when planting out these babies?
I do have a de-flasking video here: ua-cam.com/video/MWG9X3F0PH0/v-deo.html In a nut shell: wash the plant-lets well and use sphagnum moss, keep them moist but not wet and a little warmer. Good luck!
@@helloplantlovers Thanks Matthew - I enjoyed your video.
Very interesting! Beautiful aesthetic 😊
Thanks for watching!
I’m not sure you the amateur you claim to be. You must have quite a bit of experience to have such an extensive collection. You have wonderful grow spaces!!! 😊
Thank you - you haven't seen the compost bin though - many don't make it!!
@@helloplantlovers I hear ya! Not sure if I’m a plant grower or slow plant killer!
Thank you for posting the tour Matthew. I am very interested in the home renovation journey you're working on and am wondering how thats coming along. The second channel has not been updated in some years now i see.
It's coming along! Long process.....
@@helloplantlovers Good to hear that there's been progress. I'm sure you've done incredible work on it. Im a timber frame builder by trade and have a deep appreciation of historical buildings and very much enjoy tasteful restorations. I also enjoy gardening and the natural world, and most recently dove into orchids as a new hobby. Finding your channels has been a real gem. Your passion for orchids really brushes off - I purchased some paphs I didn't know I needed in my life here recently. Best of luck with the restoration and hopefully you can find the time some day to post a general update.
@@daves.3895 I have filmed one - I just need to edit it!
Matthew thank you for the tour of your home growing spaces. . It’s now 2 years later and I am wondering if you made a video of your grow spaces in your own home since you’ve moved back there? Cheers Cheryle
haven't moved yet!
Wow!! love it ♥️
Thanks for watching!
Love all your interpretations. They are complex flowers to grow, but love them and I have a few, have been lucky and flowered a couple. Love the new glasses. Thank you .
Thanks for watching!!
Matthew! I'm hooked to your channel! But, first things first: what IS that Bordeaux beauty behind you?
Ah! Well spotted! It's a Gloxinia that has, alas, died a death. I love Gesneriads and have a few Streptocarpus that do very well.....but not this!
Beautiful collection & thanks for helping beginners like me! Do you leave the saucers under most of your pots or only certain ones?
Thanks for watching - only on the ones inside.
Mathew, Pulcherrima, we in Aus. say “pull-ker-imma” Loved your tour! What are you going to do with all those Doritis when they grow up a bit? There don’t seem to be many individual plants available at nurseries around here.
Oh thank you - pronunciation is NOT a strength! Well - I only wanted one! And no, I'd never seen them for sale. So we'll see. Either swap or sell or giveaway. So far 100% success rate!
Beautiful indoors and the outdoor space is incredible! I'm not sure that you can get away with claiming amateur status with a successful collection like yours :) I also put many orchids outside out for summer here in Canada. However I put them where they can get rain so I don't have to worry about watering them as much, I'm more concerned about wind so I have them where they get a little protection from the Southwest where most of our storms come from. You mention protecting your orchids from the rain. Can you please explain the reason why you don't want the rain on them? I also have to worry about creatures disturbing the orchids, but here it is squirrels. I put lots of cacti out around the orchids and the thorns help keep the squirrels off the plant table.
Squirrels + cacti! there's a solution! The rain protection issue for me is that here, in summer, the temperatures can be quite variable so we can get more warm, almost tropical like rain - which is fine as the ambient heat causes evaporation and great humidity, but we can also get drenching, cold rain which sets in for days and can be problematic. So that's my reasoning!
@@helloplantlovers Thank you. That explains it! We get very hot humid summers here in Southern Ontario.
Another question on watering. How do you go about properly watering all of your plants that you have in the house while not getting everything else wet, such as tables and the floor?
Firstly - I have a very laissez-faire attitude about watering outside! I use a hose in warm weather and a can in winter so I can be more targeted - or with-holding! Inside, I just use a small watering can with a fine spout and carry a tea towel with me just in case of drips. But having surfaces that can't be damaged by water really helps! And if the plant's saucer is sitting on timber I put felt pads underneath the saucer to lift it a little and stop any damp transferring to the timber below. Probably takes half an hour every 4-5 days in summer to water everything. And I mist things as I pass them at least once a day. There you go - not that much of a hassle.
Do you take your inside plants outside at all? Like for watering or just a bit of fresh air ⛅️
I try to in summer and give them a good hose down on a warm morning.
Thx for showing
When do you move 😀
Lars from Denmark
HOPEFULLY......Nov next year...but I'm not holding my breath!!!
As you don’t use fans If you get long periods of still weather (hot or cold seasons ) with very little breeze does it affect your plants re lack of ventilation ?
If it does...it does! Not a lot I can do about it. But there is always some air movement.
Yes this is what I am starting to understand. Perfectionism is open to disappointment & if it
was perfect there’d be nothing to learn 😂
Go with the flow & enjoy the beauty.
Thanks for sharing your passion
Thank you Matthew I think the reason my orchids don't bloom as well as yours is my orchids are too shaded I will have to move some. 🖐
Thanks for watching - yes light is always the key and the most common reason for a plant not flowering - good luck!!
I grow mine indoors, so I try to always think of appearance also.
Yes - very important for me too!
I like - 👍🏼💕
Can you tell me anything about the painting looks like Madonna and child at 18 mins .
It is a Madonna and child, possibly cut down from a larger painting and is 17th century Spanish.
Some indoor gardeners think that misting plants does no good, but you obviously do
Well...it would depend entirely on your location, micro climate and what you're growing. Each to their own.