Cypripedium 2008

[Viola]

Slug magnificent C.flavum

Cypripedientrip with Hans Höller

Karl

[Viola]

Another Pics from C.calceolus

Karl

[johnw]

This one stopped me in my tracks Friday night. The colour was redder than I have ever seen in a C. acaule.  I didn't get back to photograph it until late this morning, unfortunately the colour had faded somewhat.

johnw

[johnw]

Here is the same plant before I yanked the Amelanchier seedling and some debris.  This was taken at 18:44 on Friday and the low sun was playing havoc with the camera.

johnw

[johnw]

And another from Friday night.

johnw

[johnw]

And finally a bashful one standing a foot away.

White ones are not uncommon but I haven't seen any this spring.

johnw

[johanneshoeller]

Some pics from my garden taken today (32°C)
lichiangense, kentuckiense, Rascal and some Ulla Silkens

[Stephen Vella]

Hello Hans,

Nice C kentuckiense. Are you doing anything special to this species. I've been told it likes to grow in a potting mix of equal sand and bark fines.

Any thoughts from anyone in regards to potting mixes and soil amendments to growing this one out in the garden?

Cheers
Stephen

[johanneshoeller]

Hello Stephen,

I use for all Cyps only one substrate (with sand and bark fines). In the garden with more perlite, Seramis, sand,..).

[Anthony Darby]

I avoid sand 'like the plague'. It hold too much moisture for where I live.

[Anthony Darby]

I only protect my spotted-leaf cyps from rain. Here are Cc. macranthos and parviflorum pubescens again.

The variation in the pattern and colour of 'Ulla Silkens' is not entirely due to genetics. I have two clones and both throw different extremes, sometimes on the one stem?

[Stephen Vella]

Thanks Hans and Anthony,

Yes its interesting to see this variation of spottyness and degree of pink seen on Ulla Silken's pouch, a trate coming from one of its parents C reginae?? C reginae degree of pinkness comes with tempreture fluctuations, the warmer the tempretures when the flower opens the more pink the pouch is and this variation is seen in mulitiple stems.

[johanneshoeller]

Roborchids, the different Ulla Silkens are all from Konrad Koch, selected in his garden (nursery).

[johnw]

The diminutive C. calceolus once known as var. planipetalum in bloom here today.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

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