PLEIONE 2011

[Darren]

A few from me. I'm getting interested in them again thanks to all your lovely pictures! My collection has been in a bit of a timewarp as I was so disheartened by the Brevipalpus scare in the late 90s that I stopped obtaining new Pleione and this is why you see none of the newer cultivars. Pics of things like Edgecombe, Leda and Krakatoa might even persuade me to start again. Thanks to great advice from Paul Cumbleton I'm pretty sure my collection has been free of any Brevipalpus (if it ever had it) since before we moved house in 2004 and I still oil dip the whole collection (and the pots!) at repotting time.

Anyway - here are Shantung Ducat, Rakata Shot Silk (the silky sheen does not reproduce well in pictures), and unnamed clones of Brigadoon and Hekla.

[Maren]

Oh Darren,

take heart. It is obvious that you know how to grow them. Nice plants and pretty pictures.

[Darren]

Thank you for that Maren. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful Pleione Pete !!! "Lucy" looks quite special ! 

4 magnificently grown pots Darren !!

[Pieter]

With the warm weather a few more have opent here.

- grandiflora
- Santorini
- Piton
- yunnanensis
- Danan (wrongly named picture)
- Lilac Wonder
- Quizapu 'Peregrine'

Greetings

Pieter

[Maren]

Hi,

very interesting. First time I've seen Lilac Wonder, I notice it is a recent (2009) hybrid from G Bergel.

[Darren]

Lilac Wonder is lovely. It looks to have yunnanensis in it's parentage - what else?

[Slug Killer]

Lilac Wonder - Chunii x Yunnanensis

I registered this for G Bergel in 2009 and as you can see the clone shown above looks nothing like the picture used in registration.

[karel_t]

Lilac Wonder is Berg's hybrid of chunii x yunnanensis - very pretty, never seen this before .
I only have the forrestii in flower now.
K.

[karel_t]

Pieter - sorry to disappoint you, I'm pretty sure, there is not the yunnanensis on your picture. It looks more like x taliensis or Piton.
K.

[Maren]

Karel_t, I have been wondering about that too.

[Darren]

Interesting David - your picture seems closer to the chunii parent in shape and I would have found it difficult to see the yunnanensis influence. I guess in any cross you get examples across the range from one parent to the other and it is interesting to see the extremes here. Your picture shows a shorter stemmed flower than I might have expected as I thought both chunii and yunnanensis had relatively long stems? Is there much variation in stem height?

[Darren]

By the way Maren - really taken by your picture of that lovely potful of yunnanensis. It was always my favourite species.

[Maggi Young]

Lilac Wonder - Chunii x Yunnanensis

I registered this for G Bergel in 2009 and as you can see the clone shown above looks nothing like the picture used in registration.

That photo looks to have been a victim of serious radiation- Very odd colouring

[Slug Killer]

Lilac Wonder - Chunii x Yunnanensis

I registered this for G Bergel in 2009 and as you can see the clone shown above looks nothing like the picture used in registration.

That photo looks to have been a victim of serious radiation- Very odd colouring

Most of the pictures received were like this, don't know what camera he is using but he can keep it.