Bletilla 2011

[Lukas H]

Hello everybody which is in love with the genus Bletilla.

I start this topic as my first striata has opened this week. Hope that you post as well as I do a lot of flowering Bletilla. An easy to grow orchid which does not only contain a single species called striata...

Greetings from Switzerland

[Maren]

Nice pictures, Lukas, mine are just a little behind. Pictures soon.

[Jan Methorst]

Hello Lukas,

A few striata's  which have been grown in the greenhouse

jan

[Lukas H]

Dear Jan,

Bletilla striata is an orchid which also grows well outside in a raised bed. Its always later and a bit shorter, but always as lovely as the ones which I grow ander glass during the winter.

Here are some more pictures. More species will follow when they are in flower.

Cheers

[Tony Willis]

Bletilla ochracea in flower for the first time with me.Very different from the one shown by Lucas

[Maren]

Hello Tony,

very nice flower and, you are right, it is quite different from the earlier one. The one from Lucas reminds me of Pleione maculata, and yours of Pleione humilis, if that makes sense to anyone.

[Jeff Hutchings]

Hi Tony,

I now have 14 different clones of B ochracea and there are distinct differences in all of them.

Jeff

[Tony Willis]

Jeff

I see different forms are offered.I did look at various photographs on the web when it first flowered and noticed this. I actually got five pieces but only one flowered and so I do not know yet if they are different clones and will vary.