Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Tony Willis on June 07, 2009, 04:26:47 PM
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a couple of late flowering orchids,not very showy but interesting
Listera ovata this is about 60cms tall and a closeup of the flowers
Orchis coriophora in two colour forms
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Tony,
Cracking looking plants, the Listera ovata in particular looks great!
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Tony, only you could make Listera ovata look stunning! 8)
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thank you they have now self seeded in the garden which is pleasing.
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thank you they have now self seeded in the garden which is pleasing.
Well, that IS a treat. They must be happy. 8)
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I know it is not now spring but not sure where to put this one,
Stenoglotis macloughlinii.
Stenoglotis macloughlinii Flowers.
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Nice Stenoglottis, Derek. I take your point about Spring being over.... I've split the topic from June to "Summer" !!
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Bravo, ery nice indeed Derek, this one has got my stamp collecting twitch going! I have woodii and longifolia but not fimbriata or macloughlinii. Have you ever seen any of the Stenoglottis hybrids?
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There's quite a comprehensive Stenoglottis collection at varsity in PMB. I must take and post pictures during the next flowering season. The only hybrid in the collection is Stenoglottis 'Venus'. In my mind, a great improvement on the parent species. It's much more floriferous and is quite a bit larger than the other species in the collection. Interestingly it seems to have gained a self-fertilising ability from it's fimbriata parent with all the flowering spikes developing pods. I've collected some of this seed and have given it to friends to grow on - hope the progeny prove to be interesting!
Interestingly a friend of mine registered a Stenoglottis zambesiaca X Neobolusia tysonii hybrid earlier this year. Not too showy but interesting nonetheless since Stenoglottis are lithophytes/epiphytes and Neobolusia are terrestrials.
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Interesting stuff Calvin, I think that most of the Stenoglottis action is going on in SA, no big surprise I guess!
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I hope this is in the right place it is actually growing in the Tomatoe house as that is the only place to get enough heat this Summer?
Habenaria radiata.
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How did you manage that Derek? I am impressed. :o Mine always die. :'(
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I am heartened to see tiny buds forming at the end of the weedy looking shoots on the ones I got from Thomson and Morgan ( after a long delay, if you recall) They are the weakest , spindliest things imaginable.... I was pleased to see the buds appear though I will be pretty amazed if the flowers actually mature and open.
Yours are lovely, Derek.
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How did you manage that Derek? I am impressed. :o Mine always die. :'(
Anthony as soon as all frost has gone they go outside against a wall that gets a lot of sun and standing in a tray of water but with the lack of sun they were put in the Tom house.
Maggi they are very thin flowering stems but the flowers make up for that keep them hot and wet.
Derek
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Maggi they are very thin flowering stems but the flowers make up for that keep them hot and wet.
Thanks, Derek.
I have them near the window in the kitchen...... that's as hot as I can manage! I'll keep them a bit wetter than I have been doing. .
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Congratulations, Derek. Would love to grow them myself, but I am not aware of them being in Australia at all unfortunately (like so many of the Northern Hemisphere terrestrial orchids!!). Well done in flowering them so well. 8)
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Here are some photos I was sent a couple of weeks ago....
click the pix to enlarge them....
Hi All
This has just opened : first time I have flowered it
Spathoglottis ixioides it is 2.5cm across
Regards
Alan Newton
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Gorgeous, Maggi!!
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Now that I like. I'll have to speak to Alan next time I see him as I have an orchid cabinet that needs populated. ;D
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This was flowering about a month ago under pine trees in the wood close to my house.
Goodyera repens. Not spectacular but flowering very well this year.
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A few house plant orchids.
One of my favourites Encyclia cochleata - I love its upside down ( right way up actually ) flowers with the green spidery petals. I bought it as that extremely variable variety - Mixed Orchid. It flowers regularly over a long period with one to five flowers open at a time.
Next a Phalaenopsis ( a mother's day gift afew years ago ). They are usually easy to growand this one is flowering very well this year.
Miltonia isn't so easy if I neglect to spray it with water. I like this pale yellow but it isn't so often for sale as other colours.
Last a hybrid Masdevallia. The local garden centre had them for sale two years ago at 50p each. The flowers had all gone but they were lovely healthy plants. I bought two. They had 2 or three flowers each last year and have one flower each just now. Not very productive but they are pretty flowers.
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This was flowering about a month ago under pine trees in the wood close to my house.
Goodyera repens. Not spectacular but flowering very well this year.
Creeping ladies tresses is a Highland speciality. You are so lucky to have it growing in such numbers so close to home Roma.
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In flower Calanthe reflexa
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It still feels like summer on odd days and nowhere else to put it, here is an autumn flowering one. Not spectacular but interesting in closeup.
Spiranthes autumnalis
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Lovely Tony, I really like the way the flowers spiral up the stem and the green/cream suits it well - how long have you grown this one for and can you tell me the leaf type?
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Lovely Tony, I really like the way the flowers spiral up the stem and the green/cream suits it well - how long have you grown this one for and can you tell me the leaf type?
The leaves appear at or just after flowering. Here is a rosette of a non flowering plant. They make a small tuber which sometimes has divided and are summer dormant.
I have had then for about 5 years and they have slowly multiplied.
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No one's added this one yet so I'll make my first post here.
Spiranthes cernua v odorata "Chadd's Ford"
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Fred i bet your drooling over Tony's Spiranthes autumnalis,i can see you adding that to your list ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I didn't realize Spiranthes could be so late. Just noticed S. cernua v. odorata is getting ready to flower here too, a bit of a surprise because I had forgotten it for several years and wondered why the empty pot with the Sarracenias. The AGS site says "not too water-logged", mine sits in a tray of water to the brim of the pot and with all the rain this year the level hasn't dropped since May.
johnw
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Fred i bet your drooling over Tony's Spiranthes autumnalis,i can see you adding that to your list ;D ;D ;D ;D
You know me too well Dave ;D
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John I do not know when Freds was in flower but clearly with mine the clue is in the name. It is a summer dormant orchid from the Med which grows in dry very hot (35c+) pine woods quite close to the sea. I keep it just frost free although it may be hardy
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Mine are in flower now, one is in with Sarracenia too.
They do seem to enjoy it boggy.