Cypripedium 2013

[K Andrzejewski]

how you find web page that my computer does not want to show ? I'm going to Frosch side, http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Hybriden/menu_eh1.htm - and there is no "Annegret"... the world don't stop to surprise me...
Kristof

[David Nicholson]

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

No, sorry I don't but it would surprise me if it wasn't in the soil.

[John Aipassa]

Kristof,

I forgot to mention the size of the lip. This one has the same size as a calceolus or shanxiense. I think the better coloured one from Werner Frosch shown above has a better parentage when it comes to colour, but that is my own taste. I like the darker coloured petals and sepals more.

[John Aipassa]

how you find web page that my computer does not want to show ? I'm going to Frosch side, http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Hybriden/menu_eh1.htm - and there is no "Annegret"... the world don't stop to surprise me...
Kristof

If I want to look it up using the URL of Frosch's website, I can't find it anymore either In the past I could, so I googled "Cypripedium Annegret Werner Frosch" and than I could find it again.

[Peter Maguire]

You can always go to the ultimate source at the RHS international orchid register:

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/orchidregister/orchidregister.asp

Information will probably appear there before Frosch's website, especially the grexes he hasn't registered.

[K Andrzejewski]

You can always go to the ultimate source at the RHS international orchid register:

- Peter, I was trying to find in this "ultimate source" a list of Dactylorhiza-hybrids to have a clear view what's going one... I don't know, maybe this is too complicate for me
Kristof

[Peter Maguire]

It's not exactly intuitive, but if you use the 'parentage' name search, and know one of the parents, then it gives you a list of grexes which include that parent.

[LarsB]

- Peter, I was trying to find in this "ultimate source" a list of Dactylorhiza-hybrids to have a clear view what's going one... I don't know, maybe this is too complicate for me
Kristof

Hi Kristof,

It is a bit annoying that you can't get a list of all Dactylorhiza, but the closest you can get is a list of hybrids made with a particular parent, like Dactylorhisa majalis, as seed parent, and then do it again with the same as pollen parent. Then you get the list of all majalis hybrids. If you want to know what's going on, you have to subscribe to the updates. I think it is still only possible to do so with Orchid Review and on paper, but who knows; maybe one day you can get it as an email. Still, the people working there are friendly and helpfull when you do a registration 

[John Aipassa]

Has anyone seen this? It makes me wonder, why I don't get any flowers of japonicum for several years in a row, only leaves.

[Peter Maguire]

What a display, someone's obviously perfected their growing  technique. 

[Sempervivum]

Currently blooming with me: Cypripedium Ulla Silkens.
I like this white flower with the dotted lip very much und since I saw a photo of it it was "must have" for me. Now I found one by chance at an open day in a german orchid nursery.

[Sempervivum]

Hallo John,
your C. Annegret is very beautiful! I like this lighter ocher colour more than the dark one on Frosch's site. Hope that it will be available soon.

[John Aipassa]

Hallo Ulrich,

These lighter coloured Annegret are available at several sources at the moment. I have another one bought from another source, which is even a bit more lighter coloured.

[John Aipassa]

Two parviflorums. The first is parviflorum var. parviflorum. The second is I believe parviflorum var. makasin, but could be var. parviflorum too. The source wasn't sure either. Small, but beautifully coloured.

[Michael J Campbell]

Cypripedium californicum