This Phalaenopsis was a wedding gift from a friend, but in the stuffed car that transported all our gifts from my parents’ home to ours, there was no room for the magnificent spray of blooms that rose from it at that time. Since then, we never got around to bringing it over, so it has remained in residence there, where it has sent up at least two rounds of blooms since 2010. It’s showing off again, a reminder of that glorious summer, and a bang-up banner way of announcing the new spring. Let the showers bring the flowers.
