Pleione Spring 2010..... to July!

[ThomasB]

Hi Pleione lovers,

I couldn't find a better place to introduce myself so I hope it will be okay to do this here. 
Although I read this forum for quite some time I just decided to register today.

So far I really did enjoy all the beautiful Pleione flowers shown here and hope to add pictures of some of my own flowering species and hybrids as well. This year is a somewhat strange start as the early Pleiones are flowering simultaneously with ones that are usually later flowering and all of them seem to burst into flower after a long winter.

[Maggi Young]

Hi, ThomasB... good to welcome you to the forum  

I think the past winter (Always supposing that it IS past and not waiting to throw a bit more snow and frost at us  ) has been confusing for a lot of plants.
It will be interesting to see how the unusual season affects NEXT year's growth and flowers.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Herzlich wilkommen ThomasB ! 
I'm sure you will like it here and we are just as surely awaiting your pictures !! 
 

[ThomasB]

Thank you for this warm welcome.  

I'm trying to add a picture of one of the first Pleione which flowered for me this year. Hekla 'Partridge'


It did work - nice! 

[ThomasB]

Some more Pleiones which already flowered here:

1) Archie Goodwin
2) aurita
3) Bandai-San 'Sand Grouse'
4) grandiflora
5) Harlequin
6) Irazu 'Cheryl'
7) Kenya
Kilauea 'Curlew'
9) Santorini
10) Zeus Weinstein

[fleurbleue]

Hi ThomasB  How and where do you grow them ? All nice plants 

[ThomasB]

A couple more flowers. I do grow all of them at my appartment within a small greenhouse on wheels. This is placed at a west-facing window in a cool room. The Pleiones do spend the summer outside on my balcony.

A nice yellow Leda (2 flowers per stalk although I did remove the partly developed second one)
Shantung 'Ducat'
Shantung 'Ridgeway'
Tongariro
x barbarae
One I received (German orchid nursery) as hookeriana which it obviously isn't. Maybe a lighter form of Leda or a grandiflora?

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Dave,
I like the unusual P. grandiflora. Hope I have one of those in the ones I got from you!!

Graham

[Pete Clarke]

Dave - very nice ? grandiflora. Could it even be a superb xbarbarae?

Welcome Thomas. Nice plants you have, particularly the yellow Leda.

Karel - thanks for your excellent pics. Very nice to see an image of albiflora - it has terrific frill to the lip - I want!

More of mine;
Sifaka - another seedling flowering for the 1st time.
Piton - all double flowered & making a nice show from a few bulbs.
Ueli Wackernagel.
grandiflora with more yellow in the lip.

Pete.

[ThomasB]

Pleione albiflora is a nice species - I too like the frilly lip and would love to get a bulb of this! Unfortunately the plants offered almost never seem to be the true species but turn out as grandiflora, light 'Eiger' or sometimes humilis.

Pete - Sifaka has a colour combination I really like. White lip with red stains is always something I appreciate.

[LarsB]

This has nothing to do with Pleinones, but I am just curios to know from Lars whether grows the Disa he has in his avatar

Yes, i grow it. It's Disa uniflora 'Christmas gold'.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You didn't disapoint us ThomasB !
A very nice entry !! 

Lovely show Pete - love the Grandiflora with more yellow ! 

[Slug Killer]

Like the P. Sifaka, very deep red colouration.

A few of my P. grandiflora out today
P. Alishan 'Mothers Day'
P. formosana 'Snow White'

 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Santorini "Yellow Wagtail" is one of my favourites too !
I posted a picture of mine a couple of weeks ago - last week however - I had the visit from an excellent and very well equipped photographer who made a "study" of this wonderful Pleione(pix 1-2-3).  Thought you might like it - I hope cropping the images didn't harm the quality too much.

Picture 4 is Pl. whakari - detail of the frilled lip !

[Maggi Young]

Ooooooh!