JAPHETTE CATTLEYA ORCHID FLOWER ~ Exotic Tropical Floral Botanical Art Print

Description: CATTLEYA ORCHID Artist: Gay Corran (CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE TROPICAL FLOWER PRINTS FROM THIS SERIES !!) This is a lovely artistic watercolor botanical print printed in hawaii in 1979. The lithograph presents the plant in the common composition of a floral print, as a close-up of the species on its own on a white background sans any landscape. The colors are vibrant in the leaves, petals, bulb, and stem and the drawing shows a definite artistic quality. With continued loss of habitat, these warm climate plants are of interest to the biologist and naturalist and may be subject to conservation, unable to be picked or transplanted from their temperate environment. Fortunately, such flora can often be found in a nursery or horticulture design center. To see more prints from this series, please see our other auctions. Would make a great gift for the garden botanist or gardener. Fine wall accent in a bath room or for Laura Ashley decor. DESCRIPTION OF FLOWER: Dr. John Lindley erected the genus Cattleya in 1824. His original description was published in Collectanea Botanica. Dr. Lindley named the genus after William Cattley, who was one of the first horticulturists to grow epiphytic orchids successfully in England. Members of the Cattleya Alliance are usually epiphytic, but some are lithophytic (growing on rocks). They possess thickened pseudobulbs with one or two leaves at apex. Their leaves are leathery in texture, thick and tough (coriaceous) or fleshy. They are sympodial in growth, with each new growth arising from the previous growth. In their natural habitat, members of the Cattleya Alliance grow on and along supporting surfaces, such as limbs and trunks of trees, in the tropical and subtropical Americas. Included in the Cattleya Alliance are species and hybrids of the following popular genera: Brassavola, Broughtonia, Diacrium, Encyclia, Epidendrum, Laelia, Rhyncholaelia, Schomburgkia, Sophronitis, and Tetramicra, as well as numerous man made hybrid genera. . Members of this ALLIANCE can be grown in plastic pots, clay pots, wooden baskets or attached to some kind of slab. Ideal annual temperature range is 45°F to 90°F. A 10°F drop between day and night temperature is beneficial. Cattleya Alliance require conditions of good light and humidity, with plenty of water during growth. Some shade will be needed in summer to avoid leaf burn. When pseudobulbs are fully formed, less water should be given. Cattleya Alliance members grow best in medium light intensity. If possible full eastern sun (morning), up until noon can be given. Unless protected, during the hottest part of the day, the flattened leaves will burn in full sun. Lime green colored foliage is an indication of proper light. Dark green foliage, while very attractive, is not conducive to the plant reaching their full blooming potential. Yellow colored foliage indicates too much light. Most members of this alliance can be successfully grown, and flowered, under lights. In very mild climates, most members of this alliance can be grown out of doors, with protection from the hot summer sun, and the colder nights of winter. Plants should not be exposed to temperatures below 45°F (10°Celsius), but will tolerate temperatures up to 100°F ( 38° Celsius) for short periods. At higher temperatures, air circulation and humidity must be increased. Cattleya Alliance enjoy frequent watering, during their growing period, but will not tolerate wet feet for extended periods. The frequency of watering is relative to the container, the temperature, air circulation, and the amount of water retained in medium in the container. Watering should be done, so the roots are approaching dryness, before re watering . In the warmer periods, several waterings a week can be done, without worry, if the roots can dry quickly. Cattleya Alliance plants should be fed consistently, when in full growth. During the Spring through early Fall, fertilizing every seven days, with several clear waterings in between, will make your Cattleya Alliance plants happy. In the late Fall through Winter, a light feeding once a month will suffice. The fertilizer formula should match the potting medium. Use 20-20-20 with tree fern, charcoal, or various inorganic aggregates, but use 30-10-10 with fir bark. We recommend non-urea based fertilizers at half strength. Non urea fertilizers provide 100% immediately available nitrogen, which urea based fertilizers do not. We recommend Grow Mor fertilizers , which also have micro nutrients. The micro nutrients provide strength for the new growth and support for the flowers. Cattleya Alliance do not resent being disturbed, so re potting should be undertaken whenever necessary. The best time is after all flowering has ceased. To minimize root damage, a warm water soak for 10 minutes, will make most roots very pliable and easier to remove from the container. The best potting container for Cattleya Alliance plants is clay orchid pots. The plastic pots are second choice and considerable cheaper. Water in plastic pots does not evaporate as fast as in clay pots, but if adjustments in watering frequency are made no problems will be encountered. Wooden baskets can be used to grow specimen size plants, as the plants can grow in the same basket for many years. The baskets allow free air flow over the roots, and eliminate over watering problems. The potting medium must be well-drained, i.e. coarse fir bark, lava rock, river rocks, pieces of broken pottery, chunks of tree fern, hardwood charcoal, etc. so that the roots can be wet, but then dry quickly. When dividing Cattleya Alliance plants, always divide into parts with four psuedobulbs. Remove any dead roots from the divisions, then lay the divisions aside until new root growth begins. At that time, usually a week or so, repot the divisions in their new pots. Now the plants can be watered and fertilized as usual, without worrying about rotting them, because they retained no roots in the division. Newly repotted plants should be placed in slightly lower light for several weeks ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Gay Corran was born in Cambridge, England, during the war. In 1958/59 she came to Hawaii for the first time to spend a year with her grandfather, and attended Punahou School. After her return to England, she went into teaching, more by luck than good management, and taught Art at Boys Preparatory Boarding School for two years. From there she married, far too young, a clever cricketing mathematician and had five children in seven years. After recovering from this mistaken effort to populate Southern England with artistic cricketers, she started painting again and, rather to her own surprise, met with immediate success. She would recommend this particular route to career in art to no one, but began to find that her strongly stated flower pictures "walked off the walls" as soon as she put them up. A friend in Bermuda, where her parents live, began to sell her paintings from his art gallery and published a series of books of Her Bermuda Flowers, and also notelets. After this success came a book of English Autumn flower Prints. And in 1979, twenty years after her first visit, Gay was back in the islands with her family, doing water colors for Hawaii Flowers. Her original paintings are sold from Heritage House, Hamilton, Bermuda; from several English galleries; and from her own sixteenth century house, Mannings Hill, Cranleigh, Surrey, England. SIZE: Print size is 8" x 11" CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Blank on reverse. Printed on thick cardboard stock paper.

Price: 13.99 USD

Location: New Providence, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-02-20T19:55:12.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.95 USD