I wish the photograph did this more justice, but this is what I have to work with. The sunny one make it look more pink. It just does not express the true purple-ness of this flower. It's not so much a grapey purple, but a true purple nonetheless. As you can see, there is another bud getting ready to go. This one is what is called a sequential bloomer. It can and (I hope) will keep producing bloom after bloom for a while.
Phragmepedium Albopupureum 'Sir Arthur'
On a not-so-good note, the flipping ants are taking over the greenhouse. I have been driven completely mad with ant extermination. They get in some of the orchid pots and make their little (or not-so-little to be more accurate) colonies and then when the pot gets watered, there is this mass exodus of ants all rushing out everywhere carrying their gross little white eggs. They are also very foolish. Why do you want to set up house in something that will only flood within 5 to 7 days? Morons. I am going to have to break down and haul every last pot and supply out into the yard and hose the damn thing down with chemicals. The sad part is that the orchids are what is attracting them. Every time one flowers, it produces sap on the flower spike and the little sugar-sucking bastards just love it. ARG!
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