Wanganui Orchid Show - Oncidium and Zytopetalum - Lovely Scented orchids - In the Zygopetalum family the best smellers are

'Titanic', 'Artur Elle', and 'River Murray'. The last two I can attest to their fantastic smell. The flowers are larger on this variety of good smelling orchids.

The oncidium family have these great smellers: 'Sweet Fragrance', 'Fragrance Fantasy', and 'Lanceanum'. The smell with the oncidium was the best but the flowers were small...more like a spray of flowers. This is what you have to do to get blooming orchids: have a room with a drop in temperature daily, sit the pot on a bed of pebbles that have water around them but the pot must not be in touch with the water, for the oncidiums have a small fan blowing on them, give them lots of early morning and late afternoon sun but no direct sunlight, mist them every day, follow a strict feeding and starving regime, and support the flowers if you are lucky enough to progress to that stage with a proper orchid stake and clips.