Pleione 2017

[Johan K.]

Pleione's of the past months.

Pleione 'Sirena'

Pleione humilis

Pleione 'Riah Shan'

Pleione 'Eiger'

Pleione 'Lhasa Blushes'

[Johan K.]

Pleione Alishan 'Mother's Day'

Pleione 'Glacier Peak'

Pleione Rakata 'Redwing'

Pleione Rakata

Pleione yunnanensis

[Johan K.]

Pleione formosana 'Snow Bunting'

Pleione 'Hekla'

Pleione Krakatoa 'Wheatear'

Pleione 'Salek'

Pleione 'Tongariro'

[Johan K.]

Pleione chunii

Pleione formosana

Pleione 'Glacier Peak'

Pleione Ueli Wackernagel 'Pearl'

Pleione Volcanello 'Honey Buzzard'

[Johan K.]

Two times Pleione grandiflora

[Steve Garvie]

More Pleione grandiflora:


And Pleione x confusa:

[john hodgson]

Beautiful imagery (once more!) Steve. I really like this form of grandiflora. I have heard of, but not seen, a yellow form which presumably is more yellow than this one? This grandiflora lasts and lasts, are healthy and vigorous. The photo below is of the same form. I started with THREE good sized p-bulbs from Schreiner in Feb. 2014. The first 25% were open on the 15th March, this photo is from 30th, and none are yet fading. Very pleasing!

Do you Steve - or any others - have nominations for long flowering period hybrids? 

I nominate Riah Shan, and Leda 'Golden Pipit'...



The more all-white ones I also have, have not had quite the same lasting power -  wonder why? They opened at the same time but have now all started to wilt and fade. Possible reasons - I can only guess. Perhaps the wild originals are from warmer and cooler regions / different altitudes, and even in North Yorkshire the last week has been bright and sunny and mild. My greenhouse - despite doors and windows open, has got quite hot.

[john hodgson]

Hello any HYBRIDISERS out there. I am taking the plunge (before I get any older) to try it myself - with the help of a laboratory. Because maculata is almost impossible to make a successful cross with, I have decided to try one its few hybrids - Riah Shan, which I also rate highly. Does anyone have any experience with Riah Shan - I'd like to know about failures as well as any successes. Finally does anyone have an image of the only Riah Shan hybrid I know of which is: Arndt Liebig by M.Müller. I have already pollinated Riah Shan this week with 14 different pollen parents. Although I am keeping the doors open in the greenhouse I have curtains made of netting to try to keep Mr Bumblebee out!

[Tim Harberd]

Nice bee photos John.. I've never caught anything 'in the act', but I do get open pollinated pods.

Tim DH

[sjusovare]

Pleione chunii with twin flowers


Those twin flowers are something of an oddity...
I have several pleiones with double flowers, but the 2nd bud is usually held on a short stem which branches from the 1st one, it's not the case here, they both spring out of the same bract (like if the bud during its formation had split in 2 parts which both evolved in full flower)

[sjusovare]

Group picture



From left to right:
* Pleione chunii
* Pleione Keith Rattray 'Kelty'
* Pleione aurita
* Pleione Mawenzi

[WimB]

Pleione 'Purple Sandpiper'
Pleione 'Red Grouse'

[john hodgson]

Many pleiones new to me this year have been rather underwhelming. I suppose that we end up many times with a new pale-but-quite-nice pleione that looks almost identical to another old pale-but-quite-nice pleione.

I'd like to share this one though, which I feel very happy about - Pleione Io, Pln. chunii x Pln. bulbocodioides.

This is one pseudo bulb, with 3 flowers. I did not like the droopy petals and sepals when I first saw it, but now I do. It really has a different look I think.

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[sjusovare]

John, it is so pale that it is invisible... you might want to attach the picture

[john hodgson]

Pleione Io