Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Gerhard Raschun on January 10, 2008, 05:26:37 PM
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In 1999 I have written an articel about raising methodes of the rare orchids of the genus Chloraea, Gavilea in the german paper `Die Orchidee`.
But now it is time to show the results.......
All picts are from 2002 (Sorry, poor quality).
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here are more picts
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and here picts of the culture, 5 years after sowing (size of pots 13cm approx. 5 inches)
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A definite success!
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I am not familiar with this beautiful orchid.
Thank you for showing it and well done on the succes of your cultivation, Gerhard.
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Hi to everyone, here are some pictures from my trip to Patagonia this December these are Chloraea magellanica and Chloraea alpina with a hybrid between the two we did see Gavellia which I will post later, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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that is a real success raising them from seed and a beautiful plant in flower.
Ian it is good to see your orchids,I went on my own for a couple of weeks this time last year.I saw the chloraea alpina but was unable to identify it and so I now have a name,thank you.Down there I also saw the C magellanica which made magnificent clumps together with the codonorchis.The latter was going over as I was late in the season but still great to see. Later I moved North nearer Santiago and saw what I am calling Chloraea lamellata in a high valley in the Andes growing in mediterranean conditions
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Good grief, I am really enjoying seeing these stunning orchids :o :D
Such elegance to the shape and shading..... SUPER!!
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FABULOUS PLANTS.
Paddy
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Tony W. : you DO get about, don't you?! 8) ::)
Sounds like you qualify for the Scots' description : "nivver aff the heid o' the road" ::) :)
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Sounds like you qualify for the Scots' description : "nivver aff the heid o' the road" ::) :)
Maggi,
Translation please for the few of us ;) which don`t understand this strange language!
Gerd
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"nivver aff the heid o' the road"
literally: never off the head of the road..... so, someone who is always either travelling long distances or even someone who is never at home because they are always busying themselves out and about.
How's that, Gerd?
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What a good explanation.Even though I come to Scotland every two weeks to go walking I still needed the translation.
Since retiring I have got about a bit and I promised myself I would go and see the Torres del Paine .I waited eight years but it was worth going to see. I must say most of my trips are on the cheap and cheerful basis,no luxuries
I subscibe to the view there is no point sitting around watching tv and waiting to die.
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Your attitude is a commendable one, Tony and I am quite sure it will benefit you in more ways than one. You are keeping yourself fit and having great fun advancing an absorbing interest.... can only do you good.
Lang may yer lum reek wi' ither fowks' coal!
This has certain similarities to the English phrase : 'More power to your elbow' .... but is so much more expressive, embodying, as it does, the hope that ' lang may yer lum reek' :your chimmny will show smoke for many years, itself a signal that you are there to light and enjoy a fire.... plus the additon of the 'wi' ither fowks coal' which wishes you the good fortune not to have to pay your own heating bills...charming, don't you agree?
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"nivver aff the heid o' the road"
literally: never off the head of the road..... so, someone who is always either travelling long distances or even someone who is never at home because they are always busying themselves out and about.
How's that, Gerd?
Thank you Maggi, this is much better :D
Gerd
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Hi again, at last here are the pictures of Gavilea lutea from the Perito Morena glacier area also growing in the woods were hundreds of Codonorchis lessonii so a picture of these. I found out that all the books on native flora say that the common name for Codonorchis is the Dog orchid well this is WRONG some botanist got his wires crossed it is the DOVE orchid and I am sure you agree it looks like a delicate white DOVE. I have nothing against dogs but this very beautiful orchid deserves to be recognised. DOVE orchid. Ian the Christie kind
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Hi again, I am sure you have seen that even I can get the names wrong quite often in fact, old age must be creeping up on me. The last picture of the Codonorchis has a wrong name beside the picture, keeps you all alert ;D Ian the Christie kind
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President Ian,
Two points: firstly, thanks for the trifle, I'll give the plate back in Dunblane... ;D
second : What wonderful orchids, especially those of the Dove variety... do they have a nice perfume?
I expectthat the "Dog" reference was just a typo which was not picked up in proof reading and has been passed on in error. :P
It is so exciting to see these, and indeed any flower, growing in such large and healthy stands.... long may they thrive!
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Hi Maggie, thanks for message, I was dissapointed that you could not collect the trifle yourself, I hope you are now well, hale and hearty. The Dove orchis grew in just about every location we visited in woodland at sea level to high mountain scrub very nice smell but not powerful. I am sure to get lots of flak about the name but I think the Dove orchid really suits this Codonorchis. I add two pictures from Perito morena with Embothrium growing alongside the ice, evryone laughed when our guide said that the nickname for this was what most Americans would like to do FIREBUSH, I also post Anarthrophyllum desideratum just as a taste more later cheers Ian the Christie kind
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I'm very much better, thankyou :)
What stunning scenery and how fabulous is that red gorse Anarthrophyllum desideratum ?
There are a few really good Embothriumin gardens I know, but I've yet to see anyone with a good plant of the red gorse.... we grew a scrawny little one from seed once... it never flowered :'( :P
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Ian, this pict. of Anathrophyllum desideratum is really fantastic!
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Hi to all forumists, the pictures which I have from 'Wild Patagonia are going on this forum or main site somewhere in groups; part one Stag River will come soon once our senior web master Ian Young gets home from a SHORT trip to New Zealand. Now this poor soul who has made this trip on a special mission for SRGC will need a few days to recover, I hope he arrives down under and says hello to all Scottish Rockers safe and well go gogettem Ian, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Ian, you're really making our waiting for more pix very hard indeed.
These "samples" are simply brilliant ! :o :o :o