Vandas

Vandas
Gloriously brilliant Vanda orchids have long enjoyed popularity, especially in high-light (4,000 foot-candles and higher), high temperature areas such as Florida and Hawaii.

Their colors include spectacular blue, and the full, round flowers can reach 5 inches wide on long, profuse spikes.

Most orchids bloom in winter but vandas dominate the summer months.

Vandas, with lots of aerial roots, grow exceptionally well undisturbed in baskets.

They are interbred often with Ascocentrum orchids, to make the very popular genus Ascocenda, which helps to downsize the otherwise often ungainly vanda (which can climb 10 feet high), as well as giving a broader color range, especially in scarlet and orange.

May other related genera are also hybridized with vandas; all are called vandaceous orchids.

Bright, hot southern window exposures are perfect, and a spot where the pants can be watered and fertilized freely and abundantly is ideal.
Vandas