Pleione 2015

[ebbie]

Pleione Ueli Wackernagel 'Pearl'

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Ebbie,
   Thanks for posting your Ueli Wackernagel.. One of my favourite grexes..

Hi Maren,
   Thanks for the Oxford invitation… Only it’s a bit of a long bike ride from Yorkshire!


Flowering here today P.Harlequin ‘Clown’. Not a huge flower (82mm across) and the stem is a bit short too. Whilst I’m moaning, the centre/bottom of the lip doesn’t look quite right either! However I do like the two tone petals.

Tim DH

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Pleione Ueli Wackernagel 'Pearl'

Superb pot, Ebbie !

[ebbie]

Thanks Tim and Luc, the Harlequin 'Clown' is also fine.

The good old Pleione Shantung 'Ducat':

[Sempervivum]

Hallo Khadija,
thanks for your answer to my request for identification. I've taken your opinion and labeled the plant accordingly.

[Maren]

... but there was only one of any real interest  - a variegated leaf form of Pleione formosana . I have not seen this form before and thought it was quite striking. It was available from Akerne Orchids.

Paul

Hi Paul,

I bought one of these variegated forms years ago for a lot of money and the variegation disappeared the next year. Maybe it was just an incident of chlorosis. Such is life.

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Maren,
Your experience with this variegated plant seems to be the experience of several other people too. I have seen several variegated pleiones over the years, but all so far have been unstable, either reverting to green permanently or having variegation some years but not others. I wonder sometimes with these commercially available ones if the plants are actually treated in some way to make them variegated for sale but that the treatment wears off the next year. A bit akin to orchids that have been died (like blue-dyed Phalaenopsis) perhaps?

Paul

[Johan K.]

Pleione Alishan 'Mount Fuji' (1)

Pleione 'Asama' (2)

Pleione Jorullo 'Long Tailed Tit' (3)

Pleione Marion Johnson 'Bubs' (4)

Pleione Lhasa 'Blushes' (5)

[Johan K.]

Pleione 'Rakata' (1)

Pleione 'Shantung Ducat' (2)

Pleione x Barbarae (3)

Pleione x Barbarae (4)

[Johan K.]

Pleione formosana (1)

Pleione formosana (2)

Pleione chunii (3)

[Maren]

Johan, sehr schön!

As a matter of interest, what are you president of?

[Maggi Young]

Johan, sehr schön!

As a matter of interest, what are you president of?

If I may reply for the modest Mr Keulemans :  Johan is President of our sister society, the Flemish Rock Garden Club - http://www.vrvforum.be/    the VRV - Vlaamse Rotsplanten Vereniging     

[Maren]

Hi Maggi,
thank you. It's nice to know.

[Johan K.]

Of course You may that Maggi. I find it very kind and easy.

Thanks (Dank U)  for the compliment Maren.
Always nice to meet new people.

For this moment I have a Pleionebench. 

[Maggi Young]

For this moment I have a Pleionebench. 

     That's fun