Some of my cymbidium orchids started to flower now and I am hopping to showcase their beautiful blooms later on in this blog, some are old trusted plants that been with me for many years and others, like this "Love Potion" completely new to me.
I got small seedling of this orchid a few years back and it's spent all of this time on the back bench growing and maturing and finally this season decided to send flower spike with a few blooms, but what a blooms - they are large, showy, very interesting color with many tones to them from dark burgundy to lighter with a bit of brown in the mix. The effect is flamboyant orchid with "an attitude", just like Love Potion. Since it's been awhile, I don't even remember how it came to me, must of been one of the experimental seedlings that I get from time to time, hopping to see something unusual and different. Until it flowers one does not know, but I love surprises and Love Potion seems to be true to it's name.
And of course I could not resist original "Love Potion" written by The Clovers in 1959 and so well performed by The Searchers and a little trip down the memory lane:
I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine
I told her that I was a flop with chics
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine"
