Pleione 2007

[johanneshoeller]

The first Pleione humilis in 2007

Hans
Austria

[Maggi Young]

How lovely, Hans. It is a matter of regret that we grow hardly any pleiones nowadays. This was a firm favourite when we did. So dainty.

[David Nicholson]

That flower is drop dead GORGEOUS.

[chris]

beautiful humilis Hans, here my first Pleione in flower: Pleione 'Eiger'

[Lesley Cox]

That flower is drop dead GORGEOUS.

Not for me it wasn't David, just drop dead!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great to see the Pleione show getting started for this year.
Some great shots already, thanks Hans and Chris.
I hope to do my penny's worth in a couple of weeks - problem is, my camera gave up on me on Saturday and it will be 3 to 4 weeks before I get it back repaired....

[David Nicholson]

That flower is drop dead GORGEOUS.

Not for me it wasn't David, just drop dead!

Lesley,

not sure if you were giving me an instruction, or you just don't like Pleiones?

[Lesley Cox]

Dearest David, I'm sure you're very well aware that I was NOT giving you an instruction. Good Lord no! And I love pleiones of every colour and kind but that one, the one time I grew it from an imported psbulb, died almost immediately. (Which is what I meant.) I think it was because it was out of season on arrival, and growing, proved tender in our fast approaching winter when dormant, it would have probably been all right. It was a lesson learned though, to keep pleiones in growth protected but they're OK while still dormant. Here anyway.

So don't even think about dropping dead!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Here are my openers for this season.
My camera is still in the repair shop - I had to borrow my daughters compact Olympus - still the results are quite reasonable I think.

Pleione eiger (same clone as Chris V)

Pleione forrestii

I hope there's lots more to come

[Maggi Young]

Lovely photos, luc, with your borrowed compact camera. There were a couple of Pleiones at Dunblane yesterday, brought down on the bus from Aberdeen by John and Rosemary Lupton, fine flowers, some making two per  stem, I just cannot think which they were! I 'll find out, since J and R may read this, or I'll phone them.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wished that J & R posted some pix of their Pleione Maggi - that would be great.

Here's another clone of Pleione forrestii - quite a bit smaller than the one posted a couple of days ago, but just as beautiful I think !  Still with my daughter's little compact camera, so glad it does such a good job.

[Maggi Young]

I will ask them to, Luc. Rosemary takes a fine photo, they both do, and in every sense of the word, they are a photogenic pair, themselves! With this flattery I will see if we can get a photo!

[David Nicholson]

Luc, that is BEAUTIFUL.

[Lesley Cox]

What a cutie! No David, I mean the Pleione.

[Maggi Young]

Well. John and Rosemary have said they don't have time to get posting in the forum meantime, so they have given some pix to me to post for them. These pix are all of plants grown by John and Rosemeary Lupton and photographed by John.
The first two are the two they had at Dunblane Early Bulb Day.
First,  Pleione 'Piton'


now Pleione formosana 'Clair'


Here are two more, not flowering as yet, pictured last year:
Pleione humilis 'Shantung'


and P. 'El Pico Kestrel'



Thanks to John and Rosemary for these pictures and for the top-up of frogspawn for my pond!