PLEIONE 2011

[karel_t]

Hi everybody.
Here I've updated several portraits of Pleiones from this year http://pleione.cz/fotopleionky.html
you can see there about 60% of my collection.
K.

[Slug Killer]

Hi Karel

Nice collection you have there, can't wait to see the other 40%

David

[karel_t]

Thanks David. Hope I'll add the next half during the coming summer.

Your updated photogallery looks also very nice.

Here is my last spring species - P. scopulorum.

K.

[Pascal B]

Last one for me, a double flowering P. hookeriana. Haven't seen that one before but it was not the first double flower in my collection. While resizing the picture I noticed the aphids also had a closer look. Needless to say, it was the last thing they saw....

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hello,
This is my first experience with pleione. I bought some bulbs in France and in the UK
The first pics are of pleione shantung hybrids ( UK )
the third one was sold as pleione formosana ( France ) which I think it isn't. Can anybody help in identifying this one?
Many thanks
J-P

[Maren]

Hi Jean-Patrick,

I would like to try to identify your last pleione but it is a rather tricky one. Is the colour really like the picture or is it more towards purple?

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hi Maren,
In fact this is not a good picture and the background is quite bad, and maybe the pic was taken at the end of day so the light might have changed colours. If I remember well it was purple .
Does it help you enough?
J-P

[Maren]

Sorry to come back so late and without a result. I was unable to identify your plant from the photo. The flower is quite lovely. Maybe next year you'll manage a sharper picture and then we will have another go.

[Slug Killer]

Pleione praecox are very early this year with many already in flower now. The one below is also very scented.

[karel_t]

Hi David,
Praecox in August? However they look very nice - congratulation. 
K.

[Alex]

Wow!! Praecox indeed.

[Maren]

Hi David,

that's extraordinary.

My P. praecox are still on their summer holidays, growing nice big green leaves and new pseudobulbs.

[Slug Killer]

Hi Maren

Mine are all still in full leaf and the bulbs are getting bigger than ever before but flowering at the same time. They did come in to growth very early on my windowsill, maybe the very cold weather we had late last year triggered something? Far more scented than I've noticed before as well. A welcome sight in August anyway

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Astonishing and beautiful at the same time David ! 

[Paul Cumbleton]

I also have unusually early flowers - one of my praecox started at the end of July and is still in flower. I also have x lagenaria in flower and saxicola with advanced buds. I think some unusually cold nights in July may have tricked them into thinking it was already autumn. I also have a couple of very late flowers on P. kaatiae. Thus so far, I have had pleiones in flower every month of the year!

Paul