Pleione 2014

[Steve Garvie]

Nice plants Peter!

What's the difference between Yellow Grandiflora and Forrestii?

[Pete Clarke]

Hi Steve,
The grandiflora is a daintier flower with a more lemon yellow colour. More importantly, it is much easier to grow and keep.

[Steve Garvie]

Hi Steve,
The grandiflora is a daintier flower with a more lemon yellow colour. More importantly, it is much easier to grow and keep.

Thanks Pete!

I bought a grandiflora from a reputable grower last Autumn which has just flowered. The flower is yellow with red lip markings and so I assumed that it was a forrestii as I wasn't aware of yellow grandiflora. However the flower of this plant has a delicate scent -a feature I always associate with forrestii.

[Tim Harberd]

My first pan of the year:

P. Follifoot ‘Princess Tiger’.

A floriferous cultivar.. one of the other pans has 13 flowers in it.. and you can't ''see' any of them!

Tim DH

[goofy]

FANTASTIC cultivar, Tim

[Pete Clarke]

Pleione Lucy, another small, dainty flower. This clone flowering for me for the first time.
NID. This is another first time flowering, but I have no idea what it is.

[Pieter]

Hello everybody,

It is wonderful to see all these pictures of flowering Pleione. It is also good to see that new additions are side by side with the old familiar hybrids.
My collection is not providing me much flowers this years. Last autum we moved after some serious home renovations and I think the winter storage wasn't ideal. A lot of flower buds are aborted when the shoots started to grow. I am still hoping for a late burst from the less sensitive ones.

Keep those images coming.

Greetings

Pieter   

[Kevin]

Tim,

your P. Follifoot is a new one on me, but what a stunner.

Regards,
Kevin

[erf]

Nice pictures everyone

Here is a little form my end of the world. I am realy amaced about Pleione Michael Butterfield. I do not think I have ever seen as red a Pleione as this one.
Regards Erling

[Pete Clarke]

Nice plants Peter!

What's the difference between Yellow Grandiflora and Forrestii?

My apologies Steve and to everyone, I wrongly named the photo of  grandiflora yellow form! It is in fact grandiflora yellow form x (forrestii x humilis).
This odd flower has appeared in the same pot, I quite like it despite no lip.
My Shantung "Ducat" flowering.

[erf]

Hello Pete
I have never seen a lipless pleione before, amazing. Very nice cream yellow colour and shape. I like it.
Regards Erling

[Slug Killer]

A unique Pleione Pete

Pleione albiflora at last. Unfortunately not the best photo as there is another upside down flower below it. Don't want to remove it yet as I want the pollen.

[Pete Clarke]

Superb albiflora, love the veining.
Nothing wrong with the photo.

[Steve Garvie]

Superb albiflora David, a truly bonny Pleione!

Thanks for posting the image of the lipless Pleione Pete. I've never seen this before in a Pleione, it's not at all unattractive!

[Alex]

Yesterday, I went to the RHS London Orchid Show. I was struck by the presence of rather beautiful forms of P. grandiflora on several exhibitors' stands, all with a very intense yellow lip. It reminds me a bit of the influx of P. X confusa ' Golden Gate' last year, not that I believe that really is confusa (looks like a Shantung to me)....Anyway, does anybody know anything about the origin of these incredible yellow-lipped grandiflora? The other thing is that they're all huge bulbs, I bought one with 4 flowers.

Cheers,

Alex