House Orchids 2013

[Graham Catlow]

I have decided its time to reclaim some windowsill space and am offering some of my house orchids for exchange.

I am interested in:

Cash
Species Pleione
Species Cypripedium
Species Dactylhoriza (except foliosa and fuchsii). Would love D. sambucina.
Other hardy orchids that will survive outside in Edinburgh

I do not expect to receive retail prices but hope to negotiate a realistic exchange.

I realize it may be a difficult time of year to send some items and can wait until they are dormant.

Please send me a PM if you are interested in any exchanges.
I would prefer these to be exchanged within the UK but could send to EU countries.
Most of these are quite large so postage would have to be paid by the recipient and I will pay for the postage of the exchange items.

I will be at the Edinburgh, Perth, and Glasgow shows and could make the exchange there.

Photos of orchids on offer:
1. Dendrobium kingianum hybrid (pink flowers) very large specimen
2. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'
3. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'
4. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'

See next post for further offers

[Graham Catlow]

5. Unknow
6. Unknow as above - image of the flower. Highly scented.
7. Cattlianthe 'Jewel Box' - sorry this one has never flowered for me.
8. Laeliocattleya CALENDAL 'Henriette Lecouffe. Large cerise flower - highly scented, but I nearly killed it and have struggled to keep it going.

[glynnffc]

Graham ,I have just sent you a pm, and now see i named the plant Fireglow whereas obviously i meant Firedance.
DOHH

[Graham Catlow]

Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia' has now gone.

Hurry before the one you were trying to make up your mind about goes too.

[Anthony Darby]

Graham, no. 1 looks very like what was given by someone who grows it in a small brick "trough" which forms part of the standard free standing mail box structure. I'm growing it in a hollowed out tree fern stump resting on a south facing gravel bed and hope it will flower around Christmas.

[Graham Catlow]

Graham, no. 1 looks very like what was given by someone who grows it in a small brick "trough" which forms part of the standard free standing mail box structure. I'm growing it in a hollowed out tree fern stump resting on a south facing gravel bed and hope it will flower around Christmas.

Not much chance of growing it outdoors here Anthony. It's STILL unbelievably cold here.

[Graham Catlow]

The orchid shown in photos 5&6 has now gone. Funny how the ones with flowers illustrating them have gone

Graham

[angie]

Really nice orchids there Graham. Like the leaves on No 5, see its gone to a new home though.

See you at the show.

Angie 

[ThomasB]

The first house orchid to flower here this year is Paphiopedilum x wenshanense (concolor x bellatulum). Really cute with it's dots and a small sized plant. 

[sottych]

Hello everybody !

This is my beautiful  Trichopilia Marginata

[Maren]

Hello Christian,
what a beautiful Trichopilia. Congratulations.

[ThomasB]

I also like this Trichopilia a lot!

First time flowering here is Spathoglottis vanoverberghii

[Maren]

Thomas, that's very early. Ours haven't broken the surface of the compost yet.

[ThomasB]

Maren, this Spathoglottis looks quite similar to S. ixioides (growing together with Pleiones) but is a different species.
It's pseudobulbs are way larger, the flowers are larger (and more numerous) and it has long leaves which it dropped before the flowers appeared. I bought the dry pseudobulbs (about 5 cm high) last year, potted it and kept it growing warm the whole summer and autum. As the leaves were turning yellow and withered in late winter I stopped watering and a bit later the flower stalk appeared on the side of the newest bulb. So far it seems to be an easy grower.

[Maren]

Thomas, thank you for that information. I must try and get some.