Pleione 2012

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow, looks super !!!
Mine is hardly starting to move at present... 

[Graham Catlow]

Yes Rick you should also look at Marens web site, it will gives you good cultivation information just like the other two.

Maren - apologies for missing your site from my list.

http://www.heritageorchids.co.uk/

[Slug Killer]

Wow, looks super !!!
Mine is hardly starting to move at present... 

Hi Luc

I've got another which has shown no signs of movement either so I'd not worry about it. Kept together all the time as well.

[Webster008]

Thanks for the advice everybody.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow, looks super !!!
Mine is hardly starting to move at present... 

Hi Luc

I've got another which has shown no signs of movement either so I'd not worry about it. Kept together all the time as well.

Funny lot they are...    but oh so interesting ! 

[karel_t]

Hi David,
very nice Riah Shan. I've seen this primary hybrid several times and I have to say, they look really very uniform.
Have anybody got an another clone of this hybrid?
K.

[ronm]

Shan is obviously mountain, but what is Riah? Where did this one originate please?

[goofy]

Hi David,
very nice Riah Shan. I've seen this primary hybrid several times and I have to say, they look really very uniform.
Have anybody got an another clone of this hybrid?
K.

yes

[goofy]

Shan is obviously mountain, but what is Riah? Where did this one originate please?

its fairly easy....................

breeder of this nice primary hybrid is the late Jan Berg, and he named it after his wife Ria(h).

Ria is a femal name in the Netherlands as well as in Germany and maybe some other countries.

his family name Berg means in english "mountain" or "Shan" in nepalese/ indian/ chinese

so this is just the "encrypted" name of his wifes name Ria Berg..................



and it also explains the naming of his other hybrids
Liz Shan, Axel Shan, Jan Shan, Floor Shan, Marij Shan.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very interesting Dieter, I had never looked at it like that.

I grow some of Jan Berg's Eiger clones with special names as well, would you know the explanation for Eiger "To Ah" , E. "To be" and "To See" ??

[Darren]

Was talking to a friend at our group meeting last night who, like me, has been inspired to restart their Pleione collection this year. He spent a significant sum on new stock this winter. Two days ago he discovered that since he last looked at them - less that two weeks ago - mice had eaten every last pseudobulb, plus the remainder of his old stock.   

[Maren]

Oh dear, those wretched mice, they get everywhere. After I potted pleiones, I found that mice been running over the tops and knocking bulbs sideways. And I have to cover the P. aurita with a clear plastic lid because mice are very partial to them and carry them off.
I have two mouse traps in active service and usually 'harvest' a dozen or so in a season. The bodies get thrown out on the expansive lawn where the red kites clear them away.

[Maren]

Luc,

regarding the To Ah etc., I one asked Jac Wubben about this. He used to sell the Jan Berg creations. He told me it was that Jan could not be bothered to invent fancy names and called them: 2A, 2B and 2C, and to disguise this simplicity, he transformed the names into: "To Ah" , "To Be" and "To See". I hope that's true.

[goofy]

Jan was a very "creative" person in naming his hybrids.

I can imagine, that this is true,
BUT I DONT KNOW..............

cheers

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sounds reasonable Maren !  Now, we still have to look out for "To Dee" and "To Eee"... 
Thanks a lot !