Cypripedium 2014

[Transvaal]

Hi

Cyp Monto, big and fat

Sabine alba first flowering seedling - huge and vigorous.

Sabine seems small in comparison to the Alba form , but I split it last October so maybe it's still cross with me - still most growths flowered.

Phil

[Anthony Darby]

I agree with Ian. Beautiful plants. Keep posting guys. Brings back happy memories. 

[monocotman]

Transvaal,

lovey Cyp sabine alba.
did you source yours from Floralpin?

Regards,

David

[Transvaal]

Thanks David, I sourced the Sabine Alba from Edrom Nursery in Jan 2013  as a single growth seedling.
I bought a ventricosum alba  at the same time which is happy enough but the sabine alba seems to have much more vigour. 
Phil

[monocotman]

Phil,

I asked as it is very similar to mine and not at all like other Sabines.
Edrom may have sourced plants from Floralpin.
He breeds and sells his own plants whereas pretty much all the cyp sellers in the UK are dealers.

I have to agree about the vigour of this grex.
Give them three years we we should see some spectacular potfuls.

Regards,

David

[Transvaal]

David

I was looking at the Floralpin website earlier this year and was taken by his large red hybrids Adelheid, Mathilde and Theophanu.  I may well succumb in October. Have you any experience of these?

Phil

[Graeme]

mine are only just through the surface

by the way can anyone let me know what the seedlings look like? Mine have been kept in pots away from anything else and they have seedlings on top of the pots and I am wondering what they are?

Thanks

[Maren]

hi Graeme,

why not post a picture. These seedlings may be weeds, or maybe not.

[SteveC2]

Crikey!  What have you got and where have you been keeping them Grahame?
Even my reginae, which are usually my last to flower, are six inches tall.  Plants which I took to the show at Malvern in mid June last year are flowering now, so my season is about five weeks earlier than last year.

[ruweiss]

Now flowering:

[monocotman]

Rudi - lovely clumps of cyps.
Phil - I have 'Theophanu' growing as a freshly bought seedling.
It may flower next year.
I also bought Mathilde but it rotted off before emerging.
I was sent several photos of the range of flowers produced
by the crosses and they look like the Sabine albas but with colour.

David

[monocotman]

Hi,

the garden have taken a bit of a beating in the last 48 hours with the high winds but fortunately the cyps are well protected with polypropylene wind breaks and plus canes for the thinner stemmed growths.

This henryi has taken a few years to take off but this year there are four large growths with a total of 13 flowers. The largest growth has four in a line.

Next up is froschii. As usual for a species, it grows a bit bigger each year, another growth, larger flowers. It is still pretty short - about 4-5 inches high.

Last is ventricosum pale. A frosch plant and fairly vigorous. It is starting to produce two flowers per stem as the plant matures.

Regards,

David

[Transvaal]

David - more  stunning plants, I like the vibrancy of the green on Henryi . I hope your ' Theophanu' proves as impressive as Sabine alba - it's certainly on my wanted list.

Phil

[monocotman]

Phil - thanks.
I nearly got rid of the henryi last winter as it had been so unimpressive for a couple of years.
Just shows how patient you have to be with some species.

Here is another one from Frank at Floralpin.
Macranthos pink - nice and vigorous and should have had 6 flowers this year
but I seem to have a problem with drying buds on macranthos over winter,

David

[Steve Garvie]

Cypripedium plectrochilum