PLEIONE 2011

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thank you Maren, I'll be looking forward to your pictures from Ian's Walhalla ! 

[Maren]

Hi Luc,

I sorted out the names and here are just a few that caught my eye at this time of year.

Pln Bonobo
Pln grandiflora x albiflora
Pln Leda 'Fishing Owl 01
Pln Leda 'Fishing Owl 02
Pln Sharon Ann Winter 'Marsh Owl'
Pln Suswa 01
Pln Suswa 02
Pln Samuel Butterfield (this is going to be named after Ian's second grandson, the name has been applied for but not yet confirmed).
I think this cross is absolutely wonderful. It is its first flowering and the pot contained three bulbs with altogether 8 flowers of good size and substance, an excellent cross - he hasn't lost his touch!! The parents are Leda 'Fishing Owl' x grandiflora.

[mickeymuc]

Here's a pleasant surprise: bought from Orchids & more as "aurita red purple", I just noticed that this flower's about to open. It's nothing like aurita, but from what I see up to now this might be a great flower, with great orange tones inside. Can't wait for the flower to open...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some totally amazing flowers there Maren !! 
I really wouldn't know what to choose first !
Thanks for showing !!

[Pete Clarke]

Pleione Lucy, (Eiger x forrestii). This is the first Pleione cross that I have made & raised to flowering. I used the cream form of Eiger and a white forrestii, (or so I think as I bought a bulb form Germany which developed a white bud which failed to open. But I extracted the pollen and used it successfully), hoping for a good white flower with nice red lip markingings. I am delighted with it.
Rakata "Locking Stumps"
    "     "Shot Silk"
Shantung un-named form.
Glacier Peak
grandiflora

[Maren]

Hello mickeymuc,

that looks like a very interesting pleione, x barbarae perhaps or a pink version of grandiflora?

[mickeymuc]

Dear Maren,

I have not tried to identify it yet, but they said they got it from Chinese growers, who claim to plant Pleiones on fields and propagate vegitatively.
I'll be at Munich next week and will try to go there again & have a look how the other plants of this "batch" of plants.
They also sell a P. aurita 'Zhejiang' from the same source, but they can't say anything about the flower. Can't wait to see it.

[Maren]

Hi Mickeymuc, very interesting. Don't forget your camera.

[Maren]

Hi Peter, your 'Lucy' is very pretty. You can be proud of that.

[ThomasB]

Maren,
all of Ian's plants you show here are great. In my eyes Bonobo, Leda 'Fishing Owl' and albiflora x grandiflora (that's Yeti, isn't it?) are special and real beauties!  Suswa is almost shocking bright 

Mickeymuc,
I think this 'Red Purple' Pleione is most likely a x barbarae, a real good one with the orange tones on the lip! I saw a pic of the Pln. aurita 'Zhejiang' Orchids & More is selling at a German orchid forum. This is a pale pink with almost white tips, white lip with red markings and some light yellow. Probably x barbarae as well.

Pete,
Lucy is stunning! Some offspring to be proud of. 

[enrico]

My Pleione shantung ducat flowered today, here it is 

[mickeymuc]

Thomas,

Thanks for the advoce, a good x barbarae is also a beauty in my view :-).
Thanks for telling me about the pic, I'll look for it immediately. Although I prefer bright flowers to the pale ones :-)

[Pieter]

The season has started here as well.
First to flower was a P. forrestii form shortly followed by P. 'Zeus Weinstein'.
Zeus Weinstein is a new on for me and in my enthousiasme to see if this has the same scent as the forrestii parrent I damaged the flower.

Greetings
Pieter

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A very nice start Pieter !!

[Pieter]

Thanks Luc. I am happy to a flower on my forrestii again. I didn't bloom for two years. I almost forgot what it looked like.