Flowers this week

I picked up this Cymbidium orchid after doing the grocery shopping at the South Melbourne Markets. I though the colours were beautiful for an Autumn display.

Cymbidium orchids bring me back to my childhood. I remember the first orchid I ever got was a Cymbidium. It was a dying plant that my grade 5 teacher, Miss Eccleston, gave to me when she really should have tossed it in the bin. Not surprisingly, the plant was soon dead and it would be quite some time later before I got my next plant...a bargain that dad picked up from the local Woolworths. It was the start of my orchid obsession.