Pleione 2013

[Maren]

I've emailed Stephen James about Cosmos. He will divulge the parentage as soon as his new baby has been registered.

[Pete Clarke]

A few more flowering;
Pl. grandiflora - yellow. A first flowering of grandiflora yellow form x self. It is a nice pale yellow all over.
Pl. Indri - not very remarkable.
Pl. Ueli Wackernagel.
Pl.grandiflora, my favourite form.
Pl. grandiflora.

[Graham Catlow]

Hi,
Could one of you experts out there please confirm this is P. x confusa.
I bought it as guaranteed but would like confirmation.

Graham

[Pete Clarke]

Pl. Rakata flowering in the flower border, in normal soil, (albeit with a lot of leaf-mould when the bed was prepared many years ago.)
Despite the horrid Winter this year, no bulbs died and the flowers are large and well coloured. Perhaps being covered by snow for so long, gave them better protection than many Winters.

[karel_t]

Spring greeting from Prague. 
K.

[Nova]

You are all doing so well with your pleiones, they are so advanced. Here we still have lots of plants just showing big promising buds. This made life particularly difficult for me when preparing for the RHS London Orchid Show which took place last week.

It was a nail-biting experience, but with the generous help of friends with plants, props and physical labour, I managed to cobble together a display which actually was awarded a Silver Gilt Medal, my best yet. Must work harder next year - and have a smaller display. The work knocked me out for a week.

I would post a picture but today the SRGC resizer does not want to co-operate. It does something but the result is parked on my task bar and I don't know how to retrieve it from there.

Maren, congratulations with the nice display you've managed to set up and the Silver Gilt Medal!!!

[Nova]

Karel I like your Anstice Harris, it resembles a pale Siamang. Mine has white petals with a mauve sheen and has ceased blossoming a couple weeks ago.

[Maggi Young]

Spring greeting from Prague. 
K.

Ahoy  Karel - will we be able to give you our  Spring Greetings in Tábor next week?

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Karel,
I hope you can help. Earlier in this thread you gave a positive i.d. for a P. x confusa to Hakone. I wonder if you could do the same for me - please see reply 197. As you will see I have taken various views of the flower.

Graham

[Maren]

Graham,

I took your pictures to Ian Butterfield and he reckons it's P. Shantung. P. x confusa is smaller and of different shape, see picture on Paul Cumbleton's Pleione.info website.

I have some very fine yellows in flower now, all guaranteed to be P. x confusa, but they also turned out to be P. Shantung. We must have fallen into the same trap.

[Graham Catlow]

Many thanks Maren.

I was thinking I had been duped. It just didn't seem correct. Especially after seeing Karels comparisons.
The listing stated:      
Pleione x confusa, real variety, 1 FS bulb   

Now I don't want it - don't have room for hybrids, but I don't think I'll get my money back.

[karel_t]

Graham - that is not same case as Hakon's one. You can compare to Hakon's plant here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9934.105
The shape of your plant looks really like P. Shantung - the lip is too narrow and long and marking on the lip is also very suspicious - see my photos here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9934.135
So I must agree with Ian - your plant looks more like P. Shantung.

Khadia - my P. Anstice Harris is the best Ian's selection of this his hybrid, so many the others look like yours.

Maggi - I hope we will meet in Tábor on Saturday. 

K.

[Graham Catlow]

Graham - that is not same case as Hakon's one. You can compare to Hakon's plant here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9934.105
The shape of your plant looks really like P. Shantung - the lip is too narrow and long and marking on the lip is also very suspicious - see my photos here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9934.135
So I must agree with Ian - your plant looks more like P. Shantung.


Hi Karel,
Thank you for your response.
I really must learn to buy from reputable nurseries instead of thinking I might get a bargain.

Graham

[Maggi Young]

Maggi - I hope we will meet in Tábor on Saturday. 

K.

Excellent!! I will look forward to that.

[Maren]

Graham,
try not to be too disappointed. This is still a lovely plant, the yellow ones are quite rare and this particular clone has a good deep colour. Imagine how it will brighten your home when you have a dozen flowers of it in a bowl. - It's just not what it says on the tin, but pretty all the same. I've just gone and corrected all the labels to P. Shantung.