Some tropicals

[Michael]

Hi friends!

I know this is mainly a bulb-alpine plant forum, but i would like to show you a few of the plants that i have currently in bloom. I also would like to thanks you all about posting those magnificent pictures of the temperate plants you grow, most of them completely unknown to me and not less spectacular than the tropicals, on the contrary, i think i find some hady particularly beautifull!!!

These pictures were taken last sunday:

Nepenthes ampullaria "Cantley's red"



Nepenthes aristolochioides


Tolumnia


Coelogyne cristata



Freesia



Masdevallia strobelii




Kohleria




Rhynchostylis gigantea




Scenecio petasitis


Laelia harpophylla


Bauhinia variegata (It's a tree that flowers very small (3 years from seed) and grows very well in a pot  )


Paphiopedilum insigne


Beloperone guttata


Psychopsis papilio



Regards to all
Michael

[Maggi Young]

What an exciting collection! I have to single out the Masdevallia.... look at that hairy little "face"... adorable!  Great Nepenthes, too, such interesting plants.

[Paul T]

Great orchids mike!!  Captured beautifully in the pics too!!

[Michael]

Hi again, thanks for the comments.

Maggi in the picture we cannot see, but the Masdevallia is even more pretty (in my opinion), because it has glandular heads instead of the aparent hairs. Check this picture:

http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/speciesV2/Masdevallia/masdevalliastrobelii2_233.html

 

[Maggi Young]

Maggi in the picture we cannot see, but the Masdevallia is even more pretty (in my opinion), because it has glandular heads instead of the aparent hairs. Check this picture:

http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/speciesV2/Masdevallia/masdevalliastrobelii2_233.html

Oh, Yes! That is super!

[Carlo]

I've grown over 150 species from the genus Masdevallia and they all have something to recommend themselves. It's part of the subtribe Pleurothallidinae which was a specialty of mine for many years (over 2000 plants under lights in a basement)...

[Maggi Young]

over 2000 plants under lights in a basement)...

And you wonder why the police visit so regularly ??

I've never had too much success with Masdevallias....... my east facing kitchen window... which is where you have to live if you are an orchid in this house.......does not seem to suit them.... so they end up being given away to friends who will be nicer to them 
One thing I know about them for sure: if you buy one in flower, the flower stem will be broken before you leave the car park to drive home 

[Anthony Darby]

Brightened a traumatic afternoon (second year class just left - half are just space cadets!). Thanks. I like that wee Nepenthes. Better than the hybrid ones you see in garden centres. When I get my orchid cabinet working (once the builders have vacated my garage workshop) I'll get some of these. I have a lovely Vanda (bit like 'rob's' ady) in a huge glass container but it will need more heat and light to get it to flower again (suggestions on a ten pound note to my home address please). I love those gesnerids too. I brought a lovely orange one back from Trinida but it died. More heat, light and water and plenty of fungicide needed to prevent damping off?

[Michael]

Wow 2000 plants is something i cannot even imagine Carlo! I had problems with the cold growing ones, and i used to put them inside the refrigerator each night, to cool them down enough, and since then they started growing well for me. Now i have found a cool spot to grow them and they are doing well. But i just grow 3 for now: Masd. strobelii, M. caesia and M. norops. If they keep growing fine, i am looking forward to try some more.

Adarby, i never have damping off problems, because i let the soil dry and only water again when the leaves start to wilt. Was your orange gesneriad tuberous?

[Andrew]

Have the pictures disappeared or is it me ??

[Maggi Young]

The pix are all there for me, Andrew!  Try a "refresh" of the page, perhaps they got "stuck" !!! 

[Iturraran]

The Freesia, Bauhinia, Senecio and Beloperone we can grow outdoors here, and had a Coelogyne cristata doing well outside for some years too