Cypripedium 2013

[Sarmienta]

Cypripedium  multiflower white
Cypripedium (montanumx parviflorum) Kentucky maxi , macranthos white  calceolus
Cypripedium  Kentucky maxi and pueblo

[ebbie]

An old Cypripedium reginae in my garden.

[Stephen Vella]

Very nice Cyps Sarmienta and Ebbie. That reginae is one giant....I hear they are gross feeders is there anything special you have done for this beauty.. compost? fertliser?

cheers

[ebbie]

Very nice Cyps Sarmienta and Ebbie. That reginae is one giant....I hear they are gross feeders is there anything special you have done for this beauty.. compost? fertliser?

cheers

Thanks Stephen. I think the most important thing is patience. The plant is now about 13 years old.

 My Cypripedium reginae stands in rather stony humous soil . It receives two to three times a year weak fertilizer solution. I mostly use 'Peters Professional'.

[lily-anne]

Thanks Stephen. I think the most important thing is patience. The plant is now about 13 years old.

 My Cypripedium reginae stands in rather stony humous soil . It receives two to three times a year weak fertilizer solution. I mostly use 'Peters Professional'.

Ebby,
what is the n.p.k. ratio of the peeters fertilizer and how  much do you use per liter

[ebbie]

lily-anne, I don't know whether any other fertilizer isn't just as good.

Peters Professional: 20:20:20 NPK + micro nutrients. I take approximately half of the recommended volume.

[Maggi Young]

One of the organisers of the SRGC Discussion Weekend in 2012, Ann Sinclair,  was lucky enough to win a prize in the raffle - she sent her husband out to choose a pot - this is the plant now in her garden in South West Scotland - she is very pleased!!

[Catwheazle]

so slowly you go to the flower with him.
Cyp. kentuckiense

Bernd

[John Aipassa]

Nice one, Maggi. Your lady organiser is lucky indeed.

One of my last ones flowering: C.reginae album, first year in the garden.

[kalle-k.dk]

Cypripedium 'Kentucky Pink Blusch' look like Cypripedium kentuckiense but it is a hybrid made by: http://www.gardenorchid.com/en/

[K Andrzejewski]

- but the biggest problem with plants from this company is, that amount of differences (shapes, colours, size) in plants with the same name is just huge. Looks like they don't care much about what exactly hides under the name, for example "Kentucky Pink Blush". Look please at the colour of your plant - where is something "pink" there? I can see yellowish "Dietrich"-like Cypripedium.
Kristof
P.S. Taking the opportunity - a few years ago thanks to your website I found link to the Anders R. Johnsen web-page, so many thanks

[Catwheazle]

the last Cyp in my garden for this year.
... grown from seed, first flower this year (after 7 years)

Bernd

[monocotman]

Karl,

your plant looks much more like 'Kentucky' than 'Kentucky pink blush'.
Unfortunately the problem of hybrids turning out to be not quite what was expected is
fairly common.
I estimate that 10-20% of the ones I've bought over the years turn out to be 'wrong'.
They take several years to grow from seed and during that time they all look alike.

Regards,

David

[kalle-k.dk]

David

I bought both 'Kentucky' and 'Kentucky Pink Blusch' of the same man and he said it was the species kentuckiense so I felt a bit cheated when I discovered it was hybrids. I also bought 'Publo' Regina and Regina alba but now I know it's hybrids. My 'Kentucky' and 'Kentucky Pink Blusch' do not look alike, I send a badly images of my 'Kentucky'

[goofy]

hello Karl,

there is much confusion about the given namces of Cypripediums
from Netherlands Anthuria /garden orchids.

no doubt is, that the different Kentuckies are of hybird origin,
which normally have other RHS registered names.

BUT FOR ME the "Kentucky" from your last posting
is Cyp. kentuckiense, often sold as " Kentucky"

cheers
Dieter