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Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by DragonflyWink, Jan 11, 2020.

  1. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I couldn't find any UConn logos like that either, but I'm sure there are other schools with either huskies or wolves.
     
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  2. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    You know just how much care to give them and when........I applaud you!
     
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  3. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member


    Oooh, good thinking! The pin probably dates to around the 1940s, shouldn't be later than the '50s, since Robbins was pretty much only using their 'winged-R' trademark by then. Not that it has anything to due with the actual team logos, but this 1949 gasoline ad, with an illustrator's version of mascots, has a Husky (lower left) that is somewhat similar:


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    ~Cheryl
     
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  4. gauntlettgems

    gauntlettgems Well-Known Member

    Definitely a dog in that pose
     
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  5. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Sensational collection. You must live somewhere tropical to grow Phalaenopsis outside. I am completely jealous. I have a few vandas and an ascocenda that I will probably lose as it was too small for the place I hung it. Most of my plants have been given away to those who have more time for their care, but I still have a bunch of cymbidiums and epidendrums and dendrobiums.
     
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  6. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member


    They can be a little addictive, right? (I'm the same way with succulents too.) I'm in Orlando, semi-tropical (zone 9) - the phals do very well once settled in, and mine are all ones I gave my Mom or that I picked up for a song from Lowes after their blooms were gone, with root rot starting from being stuffed into soggy spaghnum, and the vandas are usually on their last legs because they weren't watered - the last one I added was a brassavola, took a while to get some good roots going, not sure what color the blooms will be, but I understand they have a nice scent (which would be nice for an orchid)...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  7. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi,
    You are so lucky to live in Fl with your orchids. My FIL has 20 to 25 pots of green leaves of orchids that were given to my MIL. He thinks they are going to bloom again.
    I keep telling him "you have the wrong light, the wrong temperature and you over water. Does he listen, NO NO NO.
    greg
     
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  8. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    A little addictive - I've been on an orchid collecting expedition in Costa Rica and Panama; have had hundreds of plants over 35 years, still go to the Santa Barbara Orchid show every year; have wandered through endless orchid nurseries; have had bookcases of books; have built a greenhouse out of discarded windows and now have a orchid shelter created from an old shade shelter with shade cloth attached to the sides - I truly have orchid mania.
     
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  9. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    You are always amazing.
     
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  10. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member


    LOL - okay it's a little addictive for me, apparently a much different level for you! I can understand it though...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  11. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Give it time :)
     
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  12. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    Mom's yard used to have a huge red maple that was home to her orchids and bromeliads. In what should have been a warning sign to me of her looming Alzheimer's, she put all the orchids in her small shed during a frost and forgot them, by the time I got to them, all but three were gone. The survivors were an old cattleya which didn't make it, a huge dendrobium, that put up a valiant fight, but also eventually died and a white phal that I'd picked out of a florist's trashcan after he'd cut off the blooms for an arrangement - and that's the one that has four spikes coming up (usually produces three). Grateful to Mom for passing on the love of plants...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  13. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Wow. That's so hard and sad. I bet her collection was spectacular and it gave her many years of pleasure. When I go to the show or the Santa Barbara orchid estate, I am always taken with the specimen plants like your mothers. It really tells you what they look like in nature. I have had a vanda for several years that I got as a baby. I'm hoping it will bloom out soon. I'm also glad that your mother passed on her love of plants to you. Most people kill off their first orchid and declare they can't grow them. It's such a shame.
     
  14. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    She only had around a dozen, all phals or cattleyas, except for the dendrobium, which I remember her buying from a neighbor's plant sale. Once mine were here at her house, she really enjoyed seeing them - there's just something wonderful in watching the slow bloom development and then satisfaction in how long you get to enjoy them...

    ~Cheryl
     
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