Pleione 2012

[ThomasB]

Cairngorm is always nice! Mine is still quite some time from flowering.


I happened to find this homepage which shows some Pleiones (true P. albiflora it seems!). But does this one look like Pleione aurita to you? Lip and column are more like hookeriana, aren't they?

[Slug Killer]

Looks like Pln Aurita (sort of) but certainly not the best clone with an odd shape and lip mark. Looking at the size of the bulb it's definitely not Pln. hookeriana but could be a cross as I can see where you are coming from regarding the hookeriana characteristics. Looking at all the images they don't seem that great as the flowers are not a nice shape in most of the shots.

Pictures below are Pln. Eiger Pinchbeck Diamond which is quite heavily scented and a remake of Pleione Krakatoa which was done by Paul Cumbleton, flowers from quite small bulbs (pic below).

[Darren]

Love that Krakatoa David. I too got a few bulbs of this from Paul last autumn and the first is about to open. His Lucey opened earlier this week and is lovely. The anticipation reminds me of the excitement I felt when I bought my first pleione 20 years ago and I'm so pleased I started to collect them again.

[fleurbleue]

I love Krakatoa too  Nice colors 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I agree with the above, David - excellent Krakatoa !!

The anticipation reminds me of the excitement I felt when I bought my first pleione 20 years ago and I'm so pleased I started to collect them again.

I see what you mean Darren - it's like a first schoolday over and over again... 

I had two eiger clones opening today !

1-2-3 : Pleione eiger "Snowflake"

4-5-6 : Pleione eiger "To Ah" - Jan Berg's recross using Pl. formosana alba.

 

[ronm]

A+ for first day in class Luc, 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I never did that well Ron... 

[ronm]

mmmmmmmm............ I think you just did,   

[Darren]

Maren has closed her 'ratty' thread so I'm going to put this here. David at Koolplants pointed out an odd pseudobulb in one of Maren's pictures which had produced a flowering shoot from the apex of the bulb. Maren says this bulb was formosana.  Much to my amazement I found the same thing on a bulb of 'Eiger' this morning.

The circumstances of my finding it might prompt a smile (though I was swearing at my own stupidity at the time). I took the pan out of the greenhouse to clean it up for a show. I spotted some dirt on the pot and went to rub it off whilst holding the pot on the edge of an open water barrel. You can guess what happened next...

I luckily managed to grab the pot before it sank but the compost and all the plants had floated free.. There is a bright side - All the bulbs (which had short roots already) were then free for me to arrange them back in the pot in a more pleasing arrangement 

But now I'm going back out to empty the barrel and clean it. 

[Jan Methorst]

This one is definitely stealing the show in the greenhouse at the moment.
Mandalay 'Strawberry Fields' from Ian Butterfield.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It IS a beauty Jan ! 

It's a cross from S. James, though, not one of Ian's.

[sottych]

Hello JAN ,
Mandalay 'Strawberry Fields' is very beautiful , with its salmon pink , I plan to get it later this year !
Pleiones your Jan start to flare , I looked forward to the bloom !

[Slug Killer]

Hi Jan, very nice. I have both clones of Ian's but mine are weeks off flowering.

Luc, the hybrid was first registered by S.James but Ian does sell it and I believe but could be wrong he also made this cross himself as well but was beaten to registration and sells different named selected cultivars from his own cross. The one above which is Pln. Mandalay 'Strwberry Fields' and the other is Pln. Mandalay 'Purple Rain'.

I prefer your Pln. Eiger 'To AH' to 'Snowflake' but both are nice.

[karel_t]

Hi Jan, very nice P. Mandalay 'Strawberry Fields'.
I add the picture which I took two years ago in Ian's greenhouse  .
K.

[Alex]

Love it! bought it from Ian a few months ago but wasn't quite sure what it would be like, now looking forward to it flowering very much!

Alex