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Maggi Young

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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #300 on: September 14, 2010, 05:49:54 PM »
Lovely flower, Steve with a great depth of colour.

Size was a little large for easy viewing though, so I've resized it  for you to 760 pixels wide and reposted it.   ;)
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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #301 on: September 14, 2010, 06:48:04 PM »
Sorry about the photo's size Maggi.  First go at posting photo and got it wrong! 

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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #302 on: September 14, 2010, 06:57:01 PM »
No worries, Steve.... for lovely photos it's worth it!  Let's see more!
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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #303 on: September 15, 2010, 01:38:56 PM »
Maggi, to ask nicely is to receive.  Pleione Confirmation this time.  P. maculata's colour with P. praecox's size.  One of my favourites and a "good doer".  
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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #304 on: September 15, 2010, 08:24:43 PM »
Hi Steve, I love that one too. Is this last year's photo? Mine are nowhere near ready to flower.
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« Reply #305 on: September 15, 2010, 08:37:04 PM »
Hello Maren, the Confirmation photograph was taken this morning, the saxicola yesterday.  It's been downright cool up in Lincolnshire since mid August, with nights down as low as seven degrees even in the greenhouse, and a chilly wind off the sea keeping day time temperatures well below "norm".  I only purchased Confirmation last year but the one bulb has produced two whoppers this year, each with two flowers on, hence my comment about it being a good doer.  Even my maculata are producing flowers albeit only just starting to grow, but it was November last year before they flowered.  It will be interesting to see when the "normal" pleiones go dormant.  Last year many were still green and healthy into December, I doubt that it will be so late this year, unless of course the so-called Indian Summer finally arrives.
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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #306 on: September 15, 2010, 11:56:02 PM »
I just love the colour of P. maculata and 'Confirmation' is a beauty.

 Makes me nostalgic for the days  before our "Gothenburg Annexe " was the "Pleione House"  ( all 6 foot by 4ft of it!)  :'(     Not that we had any like 'Confirmation' which I don't think I have seen in real life.
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Re: some beauties just flowering
« Reply #307 on: September 16, 2010, 10:06:42 AM »
That 'Confirmation' is so lovely.  :D
I hope I'll see my plant flowering as well but it's still green as are most of the other Pleiones. Only 'Sangay' had a really bad season and already dropped its leaves on two tiny bulbs (out of one flowering sized one).
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