Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Graham Catlow on March 31, 2013, 09:09:24 PM
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I have decided its time to reclaim some windowsill space and am offering some of my house orchids for exchange.
I am interested in:
Cash :)
Species Pleione
Species Cypripedium
Species Dactylhoriza (except foliosa and fuchsii). Would love D. sambucina.
Other hardy orchids that will survive outside in Edinburgh
I do not expect to receive retail prices but hope to negotiate a realistic exchange.
I realize it may be a difficult time of year to send some items and can wait until they are dormant.
Please send me a PM if you are interested in any exchanges.
I would prefer these to be exchanged within the UK but could send to EU countries.
Most of these are quite large so postage would have to be paid by the recipient and I will pay for the postage of the exchange items.
I will be at the Edinburgh, Perth, and Glasgow shows and could make the exchange there.
Photos of orchids on offer:
1. Dendrobium kingianum hybrid (pink flowers) very large specimen
2. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'
3. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'
4. Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia'
See next post for further offers
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5. Unknow
6. Unknow as above - image of the flower. Highly scented.
7. Cattlianthe 'Jewel Box' - sorry this one has never flowered for me.
8. Laeliocattleya CALENDAL 'Henriette Lecouffe. Large cerise flower - highly scented, but I nearly killed it and have struggled to keep it going.
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Graham ,I have just sent you a pm, and now see i named the plant Fireglow whereas obviously i meant Firedance.
DOHH
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Laeliocattleya Firedance 'Patricia' has now gone.
Hurry before the one you were trying to make up your mind about goes too. ;) ;D
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Graham, no. 1 looks very like what was given by someone who grows it in a small brick "trough" which forms part of the standard free standing mail box structure. I'm growing it in a hollowed out tree fern stump resting on a south facing gravel bed and hope it will flower around Christmas.
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Graham, no. 1 looks very like what was given by someone who grows it in a small brick "trough" which forms part of the standard free standing mail box structure. I'm growing it in a hollowed out tree fern stump resting on a south facing gravel bed and hope it will flower around Christmas.
Not much chance of growing it outdoors here Anthony. It's STILL unbelievably cold here.
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The orchid shown in photos 5&6 has now gone. Funny how the ones with flowers illustrating them have gone :)
Graham
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Really nice orchids there Graham. Like the leaves on No 5, see its gone to a new home though.
See you at the show.
Angie :)
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The first house orchid to flower here this year is Paphiopedilum x wenshanense (concolor x bellatulum). Really cute with it's dots and a small sized plant. :D 8)
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Hello everybody !
This is my beautiful Trichopilia Marginata
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Hello Christian,
what a beautiful Trichopilia. Congratulations.
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I also like this Trichopilia a lot! :D
First time flowering here is Spathoglottis vanoverberghii
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Thomas, that's very early. Ours haven't broken the surface of the compost yet.
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Maren, this Spathoglottis looks quite similar to S. ixioides (growing together with Pleiones) but is a different species.
It's pseudobulbs are way larger, the flowers are larger (and more numerous) and it has long leaves which it dropped before the flowers appeared. I bought the dry pseudobulbs (about 5 cm high) last year, potted it and kept it growing warm the whole summer and autum. As the leaves were turning yellow and withered in late winter I stopped watering and a bit later the flower stalk appeared on the side of the newest bulb. So far it seems to be an easy grower.
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Thomas, thank you for that information. I must try and get some.
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A couple in flower at the moment.
Vasco. 'Thai Sky'
Vanda 'Siam Ink' (dark)
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At the start of this thread I listed a number of orchids I had available to interested parties. One was a Dendrobium kingianum hybrid. It had never flowered and was rather large for the windowsill.
I don't know if the threat of disposing of it has brought it into flower or the fact that I put it outside after the frosts had gone in the Spring and didn't bring it back in until the first frosts arrived a few weeks ago, (the latter obviously).
Unfortunately my wife and daughter think the scent is too overpowering and is rather disgusting. The solution was to take it to my office at work and enjoy it there.
Dendrobium kingianum hybrid.
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At the start of this thread I listed a number of orchids I had available to interested parties. One was a Dendrobium kingianum hybrid. It had never flowered and was rather large for the windowsill.
I don't know if the threat of disposing of it has brought it into flower or the fact that I put it outside after the frosts had gone in the Spring and didn't bring it back in until the first frosts arrived a few weeks ago, (the latter obviously).
Unfortunately my wife and daughter think the scent is too overpowering and is rather disgusting. The solution was to take it to my office at work and enjoy it there.
Dendrobium kingianum hybrid.
Crikey! That's impressive.
I love the scent - sadly mine has gone to the great compost heap in the sky- or it would have if I got around to removing its corpse from the side of the kitchen window..... :-[ ::) :-[
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Hi Maggi,
I have a small pot of offsets I will let you have in the Spring when we meet at one of the shows.
Graham
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That's kind Graham - but is it wise? Ian says I have serial killer tendencies these days toward my houseplants......
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Got round to taking some pictures today. Encyclia vitellina has been flowering for a while. I have had it since 1986 and it has never increased. It produces one new pseudobulb and one flower spike every year as it gradually moves across the pot.
I don't have a name for the dark red one.
The hybrid Masdevallia produces a few flowers annually but only one or two at a time. I bought 2 for 50p each a few years ago. They had finished flowering but were still healthy looking plants.
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or the fact that I put it outside after the frosts had gone in the Spring and didn't bring it back in until the first frosts arrived a few weeks ago, (the latter obviously).
Dendrobium kingianum hybrid.
That's the trick. A cool spell coupled to the shorter daylight hours of autumn followed by a move indoors simulates the spring conditions that they respond to (stating the obvious I know!).
It's a very resilient species. I boxed my large one off to post, but the recipient never came back to me with an address. It sat in the shed for three months before I opened it up to find a mass of keikis.
Here's my Phal "Yu Pin Pearl" which has bloomed for the best part of two years on one spike. This is the new spike that it has also thrown up..............................
(http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/attachments/dsc_1846a-jpg.27542/)
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This year Phragmipedium 'La Hougette' is making quite a show.
Three spikes that flower sequentially over several months but never have more than two flowers out at a time.
Usually it is only one.
This a wet growing plant that sits in water year round rather like sarracenias.
Regards,
David
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Got round to taking some pictures today. Encyclia vitellina has been flowering for a while. I have had it since 1986 and it has never increased. It produces one new pseudobulb and one flower spike every year as it gradually moves across the pot.
I don't have a name for the dark red one.
The hybrid Masdevallia produces a few flowers annually but only one or two at a time. I bought 2 for 50p each a few years ago. They had finished flowering but were still healthy looking plants.
Hi Roma, I may have the name for your dark red plant: I think it is Colmanara Wildcat 'Red Cat'. I have another cultivar of Colmanara Wildcat that is soon to bloom. I'll see about adding a photo once it opens.
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Thanks, Gordon. I don't remember if it came with a name but if it did, Colmanara does not ring a bell. It may have been that amazing species/hybrid which comes in many forms .....Mixed orchids ;D