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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: LarsB on July 03, 2011, 10:16:06 PM

Title: Disa time.
Post by: LarsB on July 03, 2011, 10:16:06 PM

The Disas are flowering.

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/Disa/P1020608-1.jpg)

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/Disa/P1020609-1.jpg)

Two Disa uniflora klones:

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/Disa/P1020614-1.jpg)

Disa uniflora 'Christmas Gold' opened on the 24 june.

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/Disa/P1020612-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Peter Maguire on July 04, 2011, 08:15:21 PM

Lovely collection Lars; 'Christmas Gold' looks to be an especially fine colour form, especially with the large uniflora flower.
The colour makes me think of lemon sorbet. Food again.... ;D

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: LarsB on July 05, 2011, 01:17:44 PM

Thanks Peter. Christmas Gold is really a beauty. You need to have more thn one plant as it only flower every second or third year.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Graham Catlow on July 05, 2011, 08:12:11 PM

Yes, I agree, a lovely collection.
I have tried to get my Disa uniflora and aurata to flower for several years following all the advice but I think I just don't really have the right conditions.
They survive and multiply but just don't get to flowering size.
I think they will be leaving my collection in due course.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: LarsB on July 05, 2011, 10:03:33 PM

I know it so easy for me to say, since i obviously have some success with them, but i find them thriving well even under less than optimal conditions, as long as they get plenty of clean water. How many years have you been growing them?

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Graham Catlow on July 06, 2011, 07:02:58 PM

Hi Lars,
I don't have a lot of room for winter cover and it's difficult for me to keep them frost free thought the winter but I manage. They are then outside throughout spring summer and autumn but they just don't seem to build up to flowering size. I water them with rain water and keep them damp throughout the year.

I have had them for four or five years now.

I am trying to down size my pot collection of a range of things and think that these will join some of the others and disappear from the collection.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: LarsB on July 07, 2011, 02:00:15 PM

Well, if you are growing them outside all year, it's beyond my knowledge what and how to do  :)

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Peter Maguire on July 13, 2011, 09:37:55 PM

I 've been playing about taking pictures of the Disas in flower here today, so here are some of the results:

- Disa aurata. I took a quick picture of this over a month ago (it's on the South African terrestrial thread, started by Darren) and here it is today, still flowering well
- Disa kewensis 'Alice'
- Disa kewensis 'Milkmaid'
- Disa 'Don'

There are more plants still in bud, so the season is very long for these intensely coloured flowers.  :D

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: angie on July 13, 2011, 11:36:38 PM

Peter lovely pictures. I do really like Disa kewensis milkmaid. It's really lovely with the dark background.

Angie  :)

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Maren on July 14, 2011, 08:58:56 AM

I agree, Angie, but is it because girls like pink (I expect howls of protest)  ;) ;) ;D

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Maggi Young on July 14, 2011, 10:23:57 AM

Quote from: Maren on July 14, 2011, 08:58:56 AM

I agree, Angie, but is it because girls like pink (I expect howls of protest)  ;) ;) ;D

Well, I like pink too, but Disa MilkMaid is appealling because she looks just  like her namesake......
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Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Peter Maguire on July 14, 2011, 06:49:53 PM

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Disa MilkMaid is appealling because she looks just  like her namesake.....

She doesn't wear clogs, my milkmaid, that is. ;D

I was going to say that I prefer the yellow/orange flowered ones myself, but when looking at the pictures again on 'Don' and 'Alice' earlier today at work, the degree of orange colouring was less than I see on the home computer where the monitor is calibrated for photography. It was a salutary lesson in the idiosyncrasies of digital photography.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Maren on July 15, 2011, 09:52:50 AM

Very pretty, ALL the milkmaids.

Here are my last stragglers: Disa unifoam red and D. Riette Sereen, both have been in flower for 6 weeks and getting a bit tired now.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Peter Maguire on July 15, 2011, 04:15:00 PM

Unifoam is certainly spectacular - I'm still waiting for some Disas to open. D uniflora was in bud when I went away two weeks ago - it's still in bud, but at least they are in flower for an equally long time.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: LarsB on July 20, 2011, 01:47:57 PM

That Unifoam is perfectly shaped and even though the colour can be different in a picture, it looks like it has that deep red that I personally think is one of the most desirable colours a Disa can have.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: mellifera on June 20, 2015, 01:44:01 PM

A little Disa update. A few Disa uniflora hybrids.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: mellifera on June 20, 2015, 01:53:53 PM

Disa kewensis Mandarin

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: Pete Clarke on June 22, 2015, 08:20:24 PM

My Disa's have started flowering;
D. Bettys Bay
D. Brighouse & Rastrick Band
D. Inca Prince
D. Inca Warrior.

Title: Re: Disa time.
Post by: mellifera on June 29, 2015, 08:03:07 PM

Disa Bettys Bay looks nice. I like this one.
I think there is not much difference between Disa kewensis Manadarin and Disa Inca Prince.