04-06-2007, 05:02 PM
We have two Hong Kong Orchid Trees that have blooms all the time. We are at 600' in Orchidland. A couple of times a year they really go off and are totally covered. From an Australian source:
"Grow Bauhinia in the garden for its flowers alone. From a distance the tree is a mass of colour. Up close, the flowers, which are quite large, resemble orchids or butterflies and they range in colour from yellow through pink to deep purple. The flowers are also perfumed. On most Bauhinias the flowers are followed by long, flat legume like seed pods, which can stay on the plant for months and look a bit untidy, but the Hong Kong Orchid Tree is sterile, so it doesn't produce seed pods."
Jerry
"Grow Bauhinia in the garden for its flowers alone. From a distance the tree is a mass of colour. Up close, the flowers, which are quite large, resemble orchids or butterflies and they range in colour from yellow through pink to deep purple. The flowers are also perfumed. On most Bauhinias the flowers are followed by long, flat legume like seed pods, which can stay on the plant for months and look a bit untidy, but the Hong Kong Orchid Tree is sterile, so it doesn't produce seed pods."
Jerry