Pleione 2012

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff all !!! 

I also have some more flowering :

1-2 : Pleione santorini "Yellow Wagtail" - has to be one of my favourites.

3-4 : Pleione volcanello "Songthrush" - old but good !

5) Pleione asama at its peak 

[Darren]

Some Pleione that came from Paul C:

Muriel

Snow Monkey (including one with a yellow lip)

Plus (not from Paul) a PLeione I got labelled 'limprichtii' some years ago. It clearly isn't and is a hybrid with very big purple pseudobulbs and extreme vigour!  Can anyone identify it?

[karel_t]

Lvandelft - I'm really convinced, they are not P. limprichtii. I will show your plants to Ian Butterfield next week - so, we will see

Luc - very nice full pot of Asama.

Today I've updated my photogallery, so you can see my plants here: http://pleione.cz/fotopleionky.html
K.

[enrico]

I'm a bit late with posting...

Pleione El Pico Pheasant and Pleione Limprichtii, both flowered in the first half of April.

[ThomasB]

All those beauties but I love Muriel (especially Darren's with much yellow on the lip)! 

Another unnamed Shantung I got from Potterton's last year is flowering. Nice colour (the softest yellow with light pink edges) but the shape isn't as good as the named clones shown before.

Alde Saran is a bit of a disappointment as I hoped for more influence from P. coronaria. It rather looks like it's other parent P. bulbocodioides. 

And lastly Surtsey.

[Lvandelft]

Lvandelft - I'm really convinced, they are not P. limprichtii. I will show your plants to Ian Butterfield next week - so, we will see

Luc - very nice full pot of Asama.

Today I've updated my photogallery, so you can see my plants here: http://pleione.cz/fotopleionky.html
K.

Thanks for your efforts Karel! But honestly I don't see much difference with the shown P. limprichtii by Enrico in post 423.
Seems the same as my plant.

[JPB]

Pleione 'Hekla'
Pleione aurita
Pleione formosana

[Graham Catlow]

After spending weeks looking at everyones fantastic pictures I am finally able to post some myself.

Pleione 'Fuego'
Pleione pleionoides
Pleione hookeriana. Not sure its hookeriana though. What do you think? Firsts time flowering for me from bulbils several years ago. The one in the background has opened upside down for some reason.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Fantastic set up for your Pleiones Graham !!  Beautiful.
Following your last year's example, I tried something similar - will be able to show you the result a bit later on !
(doesn't look as natural as yours though) 

For the third one, I agree, it doesn't look like hookeriana at all... Looks a bit like tolima ? 

[Graham Catlow]

Thanks Luc,
I will look forward to seeing your set up.

I wonder what others think of the 'hookeriana'. Hope it's not a hybrid after all this time.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Well here's what you inspired me to do Graham - Pleione bulbocodioides - outside in a hollow tree trunk.
1-2-3 They' re not all open yet - but the predicted rain might ruin them... 

some others that opened the last couple of days :

4-5 : Pleione erebus "Redpolll"

6-7 : Pleione shantung "Topscore" - a lot later to flower than it's cousins Ducat and Muriel Harberd

8-9 : Pleione x barbarae

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Luc,
That looks good - a very natural setting. Did they spend the winter there? If you are worried about the rain you should make a temporary cover.
I have just planted all my bulbocodioides, limprichtii and lots of 'Fuego' in part of my rock garden. They will stay there now with winter cover and I will see how they do.
Some are flowering this year. I will take a photo of the area later this week - didn't think to do it today.

I have just compared the hookeriana photo with the pleionoides photo and they look remarkably alike. I wonder if they are the same.

[angie]

Graham, brilliant display  . Mine look so sad stuck in plastic pots. I must try harder next year after seeing you and Luc's efforts.

Angie 

[FrazerHenderson]

Some pictures taken recently at a display in the Harlow Carr alpine house.

[Slug Killer]

Pleione aurita x Pleione coronaria. Ian Butterfield has not bothered to register it as he thinks it's not interesting!!!