Come learn about my dolls. Yes, you heard right, dolls with frilly skirts and little hats.
You are probably thinking "So what do Dancing Dolls have to do with orchids?" Oh, but these dolls are orchids!

My dolls are dressed in bright yellows trimmed in brown, pretty lavanders with polka dots, white with splashes of burgundy and many other bright pretty colors. Sometimes there are hundreds of dolls dancing around and at other times there are only a few. My little dolls are all sizes, some as small as a dime, others as big as a silver dollar.

As I watch and admire the little dolls all dressed up in their ruffled skirts, gently dancing in the breeze, I can't help but notice a wonderful sweet scent in the air. The closer I get to the dolls, the stronger the scent becomes. The perfume my dolls are wearing is very pleasant and soft, and it fills the air around them.

My little dolls can be found down low on a very small spike or sometimes way up high, close to the ceiling of my greenhouse, dancing on a spike over three feet long! My Dancing Dolls are the beautiful Oncidium orchids growing in my greenhouse. If you look carefully at the blooms, you will see their full ruffled skirts, tiny hands and their hats flapping in the breeze.

I am sure you will be able to see the little dolls, and be as amazed as I was the first time I saw one.

There are over 750 Oncidium species of and thousands of hybrids.
Their culture (what conditions they need to grow) will vary of course, but there are some basic rules that would apply to most of them. Oncidiums are not hard to grow if, like other plants, you give them what they need.

They like plenty of bright light and the roots need to have a dry period between waterings. Don't keep them constantly moist and don't crowd their roots.

Humidity should be at least between 40% and 60%, and they love good air movement.

Some of them like to be grown mounted on cork bark instead of planted in a pot.

Depending on the type you buy, you could have blooms in the spring, summer or fall.

Each bloom will last only a couple of weeks but, with many species, the flower spikes are so long that it could take weeks for all the blooms to open.