Cypripedium 2011

[christian pfalz]

fantastic........great shots, please more
cheers
chris

[Hakone]

Cypripedium macranthos hotei atsumorianum

[christian pfalz]

hello, cypr. hybride....and the natural hybrid x andrewsii...



cheers
chris

[Maren]

Lovely 

Here is a shy little friend, C. guttatum, the last one to flower this year.

[angie]

Maren, Love that one 

Angie

[Maren]

Thank you Angie, me too, it always reminds me of kid's pyjamas.

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely 

Here is a shy little friend, C. guttatum, the last one to flower this year.

The last one to flower? I don't think I had any cyps flowering before the end of April?

[Maren]

Anthony,

I stand corrected: the last of the C. guttatum to flower this year. It has been an astonishing season, the cypripediums popped out of the ground in a rush due to this early summer. It's been very warm (>26 Celsius) in Marlow.

Over now are:
C. formosanum
C. guttatum

In flower:
C. flavum f album
C. x ventricosum
All the Frosch hybrids

To come (between 3 and 10cm out of the ground)
C. californicum
C. flavum
C. kentuckiense
C. plectrochilum
C. reginae
C. Ulla Silkens
and a few more complicated crosses whose names are too long to remember.

I usually have C. kentuckiense and reginae on display at the Peterborough Show in June!!!, but I don't think there's any holding them back now. Hmmm.

[Anthony Darby]

Fantastic Maren. I look forward to seeing the pics. I was never successful with flavum or calfornicum.

[Maren]

Hi Anthony,

the Cyp flavum v album came into flower very quickly and when I last looked a few days ago, it had already been chewed by a slug or snail. A tad disappointing considering that I'd only just paid £40 for it and the place where I put it had slug pellets all round. The slug/snail must have been in the compost. 

Any way, for the benefit of science, here is the picture, blemishes and all. The colour is white all right, but the flower still has the characteristic purple spotting inside the pouch (which we would not have seen had the pouch been undamaged. ). Always look on the bright side...

[Hakone]

macranthos var. Baikal and flavum

[Maren]

Nice macranthos, please show the flavum when they are open. They look very promising.

I made a correction to an earlier entry on page 3. The plant in question was Cyp Ventricosum Pastel and it came from the Frosch/Weinert stable.

[Lukas H]

Hello everybody,

I don't know why, but here in Switzerland, flavum is a species which grows very well in the open garden with a protection against wetness in winter. I grow severel plants of which the oldest one has this year 12 shoots. But only one flower! :-( I bought it 6 years ago as a two nosed plant. The alba plants I have planted 2 years ago as more or less mature seedlings and they are both 2 nosed with even one flower. In the picture I show a plant which I have grown from a batch of seedlings in 4 years to flowering size. So I can be quite happy as I love Cyp flavum and that this species grows that well in my garden! :-)

Cheers

[Lukas H]

Here is a picture of the open palangshanense. There are three plants in the pot. the biggest has no flower but 3 shoots.

[angie]

Here are my first two Cypripediums.
Cyp Sabine
Cyp x ventricosum


Angie