Cypripedium 2008

[Viola]

Cypripedium parviflorum 2006 with 72 flowers, today one flower.
The Rhizom is rot.

Karl

[Lesley Cox]

This link came up on Trillium-L this morning. A very attractive website and some good information and pics re Cypripedium.

www.cadysfallnursery.com

[Stephen Vella]

Karl, sad to hear about your C parviflorum going to rot. Its allways been a recomendation to split your Cyps when they get congested like that as it only incourages a rot, (bacteria). Whole collection can be lost if planted in the same bed. So have back ups in pots and in differant places in your garden....Thats my tip for the day!

John nice colour and great viens on the dorsal sepals and petals but they are not twisting like a typical parviflorum...you have something special!

Rob not that i know of but there are new hybrids with reginae out there and I suspect they will do the same as they look very reginae like.

[Maggi Young]

Not calceolus, as it is an 'old world' species, but parviflorum John.

Anthony - I will get that right one of these days. I just measured another v. planipetalum at 4cm (no flowers). Another is not up yet.

John W.

[WimB]

Lesley,

the link doesn't work, you forgot an s 

It's

http://www.cadysfallsnursery.com/Welcome.html

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry about that Wim. Thanks for correcting it for me. I hope you felt the site was worth the trouble. I thought it seems a beautiful place.

[Anthony Darby]

I think planipetalum is a lovely form. Here are two flowers on the one stem of 'Ulla Silkens'.

[johnw]

Karl, sad to hear about your C parviflorum going to rot. Its allways been a recomendation to split your Cyps when they get congested like that as it only incourages a rot, (bacteria). Whole collection can be lost if planted in the same bed. So have back ups in pots and in differant places in your garden....Thats my tip for the day!

John nice colour and great viens on the dorsal sepals and petals but they are not twisting like a typical parviflorum...you have something special!

Stepehn  - The twisting was not consistent throughout the plants we saw in the wild in Newfoundland. And the height in some colonies ranged from minute to normal parviflorum size. I guess that's why they scrubbed planipetalum.

re:  congestion You're probably quite correct.  Jens Nielsen said that quite a few times - divide, divide, divide. He also suggested rabbit, moose and deer munching of Cypripediums probably served a very usual purpose..........in the wild.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

Excessive moisture around the crown is the cause of rot, but by fungi. I ensure my plants have no loam around the crown (only perlite and gravel) and fungicide does the rest. The only flowers I have had affected by the rain are those of C. flavum.

[arisaema]

What fungicide do you use? One of my C. favum got zapped by a late frost, and would probably be better off treated, but my only avaliable fungicide is a bottle of Funginex (triforine).

[Anthony Darby]

What fungicide do you use? One of my C. favum got zapped by a late frost, and would probably be better off treated, but my only avaliable fungicide is a bottle of Funginex (triforine).

Cheshunt compound (copper based) and systemics that are sold in garden centres.

[johnw]

The rare and highly endangered Cypriprdium aretinum in Nova Scotia. Found by a friend today. Location will remian undisclosed!

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

What sort of size are the flowers?

[Maggi Young]

John, how wonderful! The flowers are about the size of the end of a thumb, Anthony, I think! Tiny but perfectly formed!!

[Blue-bellied Frog]

Two years ago, I did rescue 523 Cypripedium acaule, before a domiciliary extend behind my land.
This week, I have 172 flowers. I think there will be more seeds this year.
I will try to separate seeds by colors, white, light pink, and dark pink.
Bernard