Pleione 2014

[Tim Harberd]

Another pan…’’Regal’’ This one is my small flowered Ueli Wakernagel… It *only* gets to 105mm across!!

Tim DH

[Pete Clarke]

2 nice Edgecombe opened today.
Volcanello "Firecrest"
Ueli Wackernagel.
Pl. yunnanense.

[goofy]

Pleione Ueli Wackernagel 'Pearl'


enjoy

[karel_t]

Pete - very nice clone of P. Edgecombe 

Visited Ian Butterfield and several next friends in England last week. Here you can find several photos from Ian's spring season http://pleione.cz/fotojine.html
K.

[Alex]

Two P. Edgecombe today - the top one is Ian Butterfield's 'Melba Finch', and the one below is another unselected one I got from him about 4 years ago. They are both a lot more orange and less pink in real life, but I haven't  got around to playing with the camera settings and everything is taken on auto.

Cheers,

Alex

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Here's my edgecombe, obtained from Ian B. this year :

[Richard Williams]

Thanks Maggi, you are very kind. It was a lot of hard work. I managed to empty the van this morning and now I am sitting in a pile of plants, moss, ferns, driftwood, cloth, wooden boxes and other paraphernalia that went into my display. Soon everything will be back to normal.

Congratulations on your medal Maren, the display looks superb and shows the plants off to their very best

[ian mcenery]

I don't have many pleiones  but I do like this one for depth of colour. A gift from a cousin who sadly is no longer with us

Pl Red Grouse

[erf]

Nice pictures everyone. I sure like the Pln Edgecome you are posting Luc, Pete and Alex, sadly I don't have any myself..... 
Here is a litle something from Denmark.
Regards Erling

[Maren]

Maren,

congrats on your display and medal. I've just flowered one of these new grandifloras and they are super. A real step forward! If they increase well then there will be some super pans aound in a couple of years.

Regards, David

Hi David,
thank you for that. I believe that the P. grandiflora will do well and multiply if given plenty of food and water and a big enough pot / bowl to develop their replacement pseudobulbs.
A couple of years ago, I bought a bunch of P. formosana from the same supplier, intended for my display. The pseudobulbs were the size of a small child's fist, and they grew and multiplied so well that I shall never need to stock up on these again.

[erf]

Can't help it. Pleione Askia 'Cinnabar' is a fantastic pleione hybrid.
Regards Erling

[Maren]

Agreed. This is rather lovely.

[Kevin]

Here are another few Pleione which are flowering for me at the moment.

P. x confusa "Golden Gate" which I bought last year at the RHS Orchid show
A bowl of P.Tongarirro which I guess is pretty standard, but always puts on a good show
A plant which I bought as P.formosana which is suspisiously similar to my P.Tongarirro above! That'll teach me to buy a bulb from a random Ebayer without seeing it in person. Some you win- some you loose I guess.

Hope you all had a good Easter.

Regards,
Kevin

[Maren]

Hi Kevin,

that does look like P. Tongariro (please note the spelling). It's a nice plant and flower, though, and one of my favourites.

[Graham Catlow]

I have a mixed group of P. x barbarae that I separated out this morning and have seven variations so far. There are others with flowers yet to open. and others that won't flower this year. I hope there are no more variations.
Some I like more than others.

Variations in two posts.

Graham