Cypripedium 2013

[mark smyth]

 Cypripedium 'Parville' / Cypripedium parviflorum

Are the flowers really this small?

Ian please tell me/us more about growing yours in the ground. I really don't want to keep mine in clay pots. I'm too busy in the summer months to keep everything watered

[K Andrzejewski]

Cypripedium 'Parville' / Cypripedium parviflorum...Are the flowers really this small?

- yes, there is a "group" of mini-Cypripedium, like parviflorum, montanum, candidum, californicum...

[John Aipassa]

Cypripedium 'Parville' / Cypripedium parviflorum

Are the flowers really this small?

Ian please tell me/us more about growing yours in the ground. I really don't want to keep mine in clay pots. I'm too busy in the summer months to keep everything watered

Mark,

Parviflorum is one of the more easy species to cultivate in the garden. I show you one of my mature ones, which is in its second year in the garden. Two flowers now, last year one. Seedlings also do well in the garden. The ones I planted (at least two years out of flask) two years ago all come up and are one or two years from flowering now.

I als give you a link of Judith Prins' fotos on her website with parviflorum amongst others, to give you an idea. She has raised beds and her orchid growing medium is garden soil mixed with coarse sand and grit, that's all. I don't have raised beds. My planting holes are filled with garden soil, potting soil, cocopeat, seramis, perlite, bark or whatever is available to make it more open and moisture retentive (I have a very sandy soil). I only add a bottom drainage layer (clay pebbles or whatever) in very wet not so well draining spots in the garden.

http://www.judithprinstuinorchidee.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=4&lang=nl

[monocotman]

I'm going to sleep, so only quickly&short answer: I don't buy tomatos in Tesco, even when they look amazing
Cypripdium calceolus (E.Götz, Germany) - third year outside, terracotta pot filled with clay with added crushed chalk, no fertiliser or hormones (never !); picture from yesterday morning.
Regards -
Kristof

and that is a nice calceolus. Well done.
I don't use 'hormones' either!
The only things that my plants receive are rain water, tap water, phostrogen/miracle gro, tomorite and a pinch of Epsom salts.
As Maggi says, we all grow in artificial environments, even you Kristof, just take your pick to what suits you.
Regards,
David

[Anthony Darby]

I once tried to grow Cypripedium "Ulla Silkens" in my natural clay in the garden. When the plants failed to appear the next year I investigated. All I found was a few rotted roots and no sign of the crown. After that, I would dig a huge hole and fill it with 80% perlite 10% fine bark and 10% sieved loam for plants in the garden. No losses after that. Not sure what the reference to hormones is about.

[Corrado & Rina]

Kristof,

Could you please show a picture of your compost?

Thanks!

Best,

[K Andrzejewski]

Kristof,Could you please show a picture of your compost?

- Don't expect I will remove my plants from the pots to take a picture. Maybe tomorrow I'll prepare new soil mix for Cypripedium.
Regards
Kristof
P.S. Permanently no time for anything...

[Sarmienta]

Sorry maren .......the rocks in my garden are both real rocks (vulcanic) and parts of fake  artificial rocks made of concrete and coloured with colorpowders in the concrete mix .

Now flowering 2 hybrids from gardenorchids ........kentuckiensis xfasciolatum and a multiflower white.
The last one looks almost the same as the C Boots.

[David Nicholson]

One here that certainly isn't cosseted. Photographed today at Keith Wiley's Wildside Nursery and Garden here in Devon.

[John Aipassa]

That's a great slope to plant Cyps in. Thanks for sharing, David.

[John Aipassa]

Two newly acquired Cyps:

C. cordigerum and californicum. Both didn't had my particular interest, but seeing them in flower made me fall in love at them. Nicely coloured and far better looking in real life than on photos.

[Corrado & Rina]

Hi David,

Very interesting setup up for those Cypripedium, I wonder if they are in a pot that has been interred, or if they are in the soil. If the latter, then it is even more interesting.

Do you have a close up of the soil?

Best,

Corrado & Rina

[John Aipassa]

A couple more of mine:

C. 'Annegret'
C. 'Alois'
C. kentuckiense X microsaccos
C. 'Sebastian'

[K Andrzejewski]

C. 'Annegret'

- John, if this is no secret, where you bought this plant and what's the size of the lip? This is strange story, P.Christian is providing information that W.Frosch registered this hybrid in 2010  as a parviflorum x shanxiense but no info on Frosch web-page.
Kristof

[John Aipassa]

Kristof,

I bought mine from a German source. Not Werner Frosch himself, but Werner has a photo of a superior coloured one:

http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Hybriden/anneg_e.htm