Cypripedium 2008

[Anthony Darby]

Those are fantastic pics Dave. I grow neither species, but your pics make me want to.

[Giles]

I saw these at Wisley today.

[Giles]

and some more...

[Giles]

and it all looked very pretty.....

[Giles]

...with regards to the names, the photo files have the same name that was on the label, but I think:
C.calceolus parviflorum = C.parviflorum parviflorum
C.pubescens = C.parviflorum pubescens
C.kentuckiense........?is it really kentuckiense.....Frosch shows a yellowy form, but even so!
C.henryi.
C.franchetii......again doesn't look like ones on Frosch site, but seems to be quite variable
C.segawae.....this is the first time I've seen this. I'm afraid the photo doesn't do it credit.
                   It is a beautiful plant, well proportioned, lovely colour, and glossy leaves.
Cypripedium corner (a place to linger)
General views of alpine house x2

I guess there are some advantages of being well south of the border (!)
..but how I miss those Asiatic Primulas at Cluny House!

[Slug Killer]

Hi Greed

There is a mistake somewhere as Cyp kentuckiense looks nothing like the picture you have posted. Below are images from the Phytesia website (with permission from Pascal Lambe) of what they should look like or what I believe they should look like.





Dave

[Giles]

..its just that you don't like to argue with the RHS!!!!!!

[Anthony Darby]

Perhaps they have a stock of labels etched when Moses took two tablets and went up into the mountain, and they keep wheeling them out when they have a plant that matches the label? The reason being that if they keep the labels long enough the name will eventually change back? Can't think of any other reason to call Cypripedium parviflorum form of calceolus except that it may be its original title?

[Slug Killer]

Cyp fasciolatum again showing difference in colouration, one is more white.

[Giles]

Dear Dave.
Here is a photo of a C.fasciolatum exhibited at the AGS Midlands show a few weeks ago,
by Carl Hardwick. I was impressed by how healthy it looked. It won a Certificate.
(This does look like what it says on the label !!!!!!!)
Giles

[johanneshoeller]

Some Cyps from my garden:
froschii, japonicum, calceolus x parviflorum and fasciolatum.

Joakim, my friend grows some Cyps in a cold green house where are no tropical orchids. But most Cyps are outdoor and these do not jet flower.
It is correct that some manchuricum are x ventricosum or macranthos.

[derekb]

My first to flower this year,
Cypripedium Gisela

[Joakim B]

Lovely Cyps 

Is the RHS Cyp kentuckiense a Cyp parviflorum var pubicenses? I tried to use the key in the Frosch website but depending on how I saw the pouch it end up as kentuckiense or pubicenses. Pubicences have more of the green tone but I do not know if kentuckiense also have that.

Hans thanks for clarefying about the green house. So we might look forward to see Yours outside as well.
The x ventricosum is so fantastic and has so many variations and it also back crosses with machranthos. Especially the "manchuricum variant" is more on the macranthos side than the calceolus side. It almost seem to be bigger and better variation of natural ventricusum than when the hybrid is done artificially. Luckily the natural hybrid is fertile. (Is that not against the definition of species that they can not have fertile offspring?)

Kind regards
Joakim

[Anthony Darby]

Here is my 'Sabine'. It suffered a little from frosts this year, but it didn't affect the flowers.

[Paul T]

Anthony,

What a pot full!!  Beautiful.