Cypripedium 2014

[monocotman]

Steve,

cute flower.
Some more hybrids.
In contrast to plectrochilum, these three are all very big plants. Growths are up to 2 feet high.
Sunny has over 30 flowers and is in my biggest plastic pot, over a foot across.
The growths had a few problems developing and one or two flowers are misshapen.
Next up are two forms of Lucy Pinkepank (kentuckiense x tibeticum).
These both have the biggest flowers of any of the hybrids.

regards,

david

[Anne Repnow]

I managed to take some photos before high winds and pouring rain started to buffet them around:

Cypripedium calceolus - increasing very slowly indeed
Cypripedium 'Dietrich'
Cypripedium yunnanense

[Stephen Vella]

Lovely cyps.. Seems like everyone is grasping the cultivation of these orchids from looking at the amount of blooms.

Dave I'm lovin your froschii the colour and form is divine.

Anne your cyp yunnanense now that's special and in the garden too..how do you cultivate this one in the garden?

Cheers

[Anthony Darby]

Lucy Pinkepank is lovely.  I had one for a few seasons but parted with it and fled the country before it flowered.  Wonder what happened to it?

[Anne Repnow]

Stephen: I'm a bit reckless with my cyps. I work a lot of sand and grit into my soil before planting them - after that they only get some fertilizer when first they look out of the ground after the winter - and some water if we have extremely dry weather. Apart from that they have to fend for themselves... I have had the C. yunnanense about 5 years now,  so I expect it hasn't passed the final test yet. It grows in moderately moist soil in the dappled shade of a magnolia.

[Hakone]

cypripedium tibeticum


cypripedium californicum


cypripedium sebastian x tibeticum

[Irm]

Cypripedium flavum 

[Steve Garvie]

Cypripedium fargesii








In its second year with me, first time flowered. I had to photograph this before it meets its maker!
(The top images include a bit of make-up (moss) for the camera!).

[ichristie]

Wonderful Cypripediums everyone, Steve your are a knockout  thanks for posting, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello, here are two pictures of my Cypripedium tibeticum came from the late great Kath Dryden, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Hakone]

[Stephen Vella]

Steve the most amazing C fargesii picks Ive ever seen...hope it flowers for you next year.

Ian..nice dark tibeticums

cheers

[Hakone]

[Sempervivum]

Hallo ichristie, great, these dark C. tibeticum!

[angie]

Some lovely Cypripediums and all grown so well. Here are some of mine. The first picture I have posted has me baffled, some of the flowers are upside down or leaning to the one side. I wondered if it was the heavy hail and rain that we had.

Angie