Cypripedium 2011

[arisaema]

Lovely pictures, Sabine Pastel looks exquisite! It will be interesting to see how C. tibeticum and others have done here, we had an unusually cold winter with no snow cover and temperatures dropping down to -20 several nights in a row. It probably helps that they are planted in the ground, but I didn't cover them last fall like I have in previous years

[Alex]

A (very) small one from me: C. plectrochilon today.

[chris]

my C.plectrochilon wont flower this year, so I like to yours Alex, here in flower C.parviflorum forma pubescense

[Alex]

Beautiful flower and picture, Chris, thanks.

Alex

[aldo]

My first Cypripedium of the year

[Michael J Campbell]

Here is my first Cyp this year.
Cyp. parviflorum

[monocotman]

Hi,

a few more flowering today.
First up is a new hybrid 'Bill'  -pubescens x tibeticum. A nice large red flower in an average sized stem. It should improve as this is a first flowering seedling.
Next is one bought as Pluto (fasciolatum x franchetti) but is probably Sunny ( calceolus x fasciolatum). I nearly got rid of this one when it flowered a couple of years ago but cyps can improve dramatically as they mature and this certainly has.
Finally a group shot of the mature plants on the north side of the greenhouse,

Regards,

David

[Maggi Young]

My first Cypripedium of the year

Hello Aldo, a warm welcome to the Forum!

Your C. fasciolatum x candidum is a beauty... and a super photo, too, thank you!

[Graham Catlow]

My first of the year - Cypripedium plectrochylon.
Unfortunately C. guttatum doesn't look as though its going to surface this year. Had an inspection and there is a very small shoot quite low in the compost. Hope it survives.
And I can't find C. fasciculatum. I am really dissapointed.

[chris]

here with the warm weather it is every day something else in flower, yesterday C.'Sabine', today C.macranthos and C.macranthos alba

[Maren]

Just a few early morning pictures:
Cyp. Inge, but not so sure about the name, the label was missing and there was one C. Inge adjacent which looked fairly similar. I'd be inclined to say that this is C. pubescens v parviflorum. Any suggestions?

Also, Cyp. Michael, beginning to bulk up nicely.

Finally Cyp. ventricosum x fasciculatum, a hybrid made, I believe, by Jan Moors of Crustacare. I think this is quite divine, he does make some lovely hybrids.

Correction (after confirmation from Michael Weinert, who supplied the plant) Cyp Ventricosum Pastel

[goofy]

hey,
the "fasciolatum X ventricosum" hybrid (Hideki Okuyama)
was made by famous W. Frosch  and looks like this .........
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Hybriden/hybrid_d.htm

so I have some doubts, but its nice though...........

[Maggi Young]

hey,
the "fasciolatum X ventricosum" hybrid (Hideki Okuyama)
was made by famous W. Frosch  and looks like this .........
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Hybriden/hybrid_d.htm

so I have some doubts, but its nice though...........

Dieter,  I think Maren's plant has the opposite parentage......Cyp. ventricosum x fasciculatum   

[goofy]

Dieter,  I think Maren's plant has the opposite parentage......Cyp. ventricosum x fasciculatum   

 

Maggi,
it does not matter which the pod and the pollen plant is,
the hybrids have the same name
and all look "the same within  a range"

thats what I learned from RHS
and from two of the most famous Cyp breeders in the world.

BTW fasciculation is a different species,
and there are no hybrids registered so far...........

[Maggi Young]

 

it does not matter which the pod and the pollen plant is,
the hybrids have the same name
and all look "the same within  a range"

thats what I learned from RHS
and from two of the most famous Cyp breeders in the world.

BTW fasciculation is a different species,
and there are no hybrids registered so far...........

Thanks, Dieter, useful information.