Pleione 2007

[johanneshoeller]

Rakata Rock Dove,  ?? and Hekla Locking St. (?)

Hans

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Derek,
Nice to see you here in Pleioneland.  Some beautiful plants you have there - I have a Doreen too, but she's not my daughter    It's Britania Doreen and she'll be flowering in a couple of days..
Harlequin Norman is very colourful to that's another one to put on my wants list.
Adn I'm with you Maggi - all the alba forms of formosana are very beautiful indeed.

Hans, Your nr 3 is definitely hekla Locking Stumps.
Nr two does look very much like a Rakata, but I don't know the clone Rock Dove - so I can't confirm.
What's nr 1 ?

I hope to be able to post some more of my own tomorrow or the day after - the higher temperatures (we had 15 °C today) are speeding things up now.

[johanneshoeller]

Luc, the first is from Mr. Butterfield and should be Rakata Rock Dove. This Pleione is very large (15cm high).

Hans

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You've got me all puzzled there Hans - I'd say the third picture (DSCF 8778) is Locking stumps... not the first one.

I don't know what the first picture is though (DSCF 8692)

Or are we mixing things up ?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

3 more Pleiones flowering right now and a lot more to come the following days.

1) P. deriba
2) P. hekla "Locking Stumps" - that's my specimen Hans
3) P. pleionoïdes

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some more Pleiones flowering, safely inside, while hail is making a mess outside 

Hope you enjoy them

1 & 2 Pleione yunnanensis

3) P. britannia 'Doreen' (this is mine Derek)
4) P. paricutin - rather small flower but I love the strong coloured lip
5) P. x barbarae the natural hybrid  of P. grandiflora and P. bulbocodioides

[David Nicholson]

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh again!!!!!

[Paddy Tobin]

Luc,

These are extraordinarily beautiful and a plant I do not grow except for a few of the more ordinary cultivars.

Many thanks, Paddy

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks Paddy and David - glad you like them - you should think about starting to grow them - gives you a great winter occupation repotting them when there's not much else going on in and around the garden.
 

[David Nicholson]

Luc, I would love to have a go but at present I just do not have the space available under glass.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I guess that's a problem we all share David - we have to make choices in life....
Mind you - they spend most of their time outside ....

[derekb]

This is the last of mine to flower,never had one to have two blooms I am not sure if that has made them smaller.Luk have you grown this one before as it does not seem to fit description it came from Ian Butterfield.It is P.Tal`Red Tailed Hawk`

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Derek !
Very nice Pleione - and it's not unusual for a fully grown bulb to produce two flower stems - you should have two bulbs next year !
I have'nt grown Tall "Red tailed hawk" - but from the Butterfield catalogue, it does seem to fit the discription :
"Dark purple pink flowers with lips which are almost solid dark red with yellow keels"

I hope to post some more of mine tomorrow - today was too dark to make decent photographs.

[johanneshoeller]

Pleione forrestii, not perfect, but semi-alba
Pleione pleionoides (3x)? (an extraordinary dark red, not a hybrid)
Pleione formosana Iris?
Pleione Eiger Cream Form? (white)

Hans

[derekb]

Hans,   By the looks of those I have a long way to go.
Derek