Cypripedium 2014

[Anthony Darby]

Looking good Angie.

[Maren]

Steve,
wonderful C. fargesii and great photography. I like the way you left in the bits of dry grass in the first picture to make it look natural.

[monocotman]

Angie - lovely plants - is the last one macranthos?

Here are a couple that have done pretty well this year.
First up is Pixi - this one has well over 50 shoots and about 30 flowers.
Not sure how much bigger it will get.
Then I have my favourite species - tibeticum.
This large flowered form is a division from Peter Corkhill and this year
there are 22 shoots and 18 flowers.

Regards,

David

[Steve Garvie]

That tibeticum looks superb!!!
If ever you are tempted to take a knife to the rhizome -I'm your first customer!   

[angie]

David the label says its tibeticum but I have another tibeticum and it is much darker. Your Pixi is amazing. It's lovely seeing your  pictures, it makes me what to grow more of these Cyps, .I have read that if the plant gets really big there is a chance that it might  rot and die do you have ant knowledge of this. I would be upset if something like that happened to a mature plant. I can't remember where I read this.

Angie 

[angie]

Looking good Angie.

Anthony your plants are living happily and they make me happy having them, thanks again 

Angie 

[Graham Catlow]

Some great plants everyone but especially - everything by David, Steves Fargesii, Iains tibeticum and that last one of Angies which looks like macranthos

Here are some of mine - all very dark and some not what I bought them as.

1. C. 'Pixi' which everyone seems to be doing well with.
2. Bought as C. smithii but is tibeticum
3. Bought as C. macranthos but looks like tibeticum
4. Bought as C. tibeticum and probably is

[angie]

Graham your plants are looking good no matter what their names are. Graham you also think that my tibeticum is macranthos. I will change its name today before I forget. I must say that I am not very good with labels. I bought some metal labels some time ago so I need to use these and hopefully they will stay in the pots.
My Cyp, Pixi had it flowers all over the place. Not sure what happened there. I have moved my plants to a new area with some overhead shading. Not sure if I will leave them there or put them back in the cold frame for the winter.

My flower piggy bank has filled up nicely so I hope to buy some more Cypripediums.

Angela 

[monocotman]

Steve - those fargesii plants and photos are superb.
Angie - I'm testing this assertion about plant size and rot.
It was Michael Wienert who stated that it is best to split them at 10-15 bud size.
Well if I did that I would be overrun with plants plus I like to grow them to specimen size.
Splitting them up is not easy and they take a year or two to recover.
Michael W may have been talking about plants grown in soil.
As all mine are in perlite, we'll see what happens.
So far I've found no extra problems with large plants compared to smaller ones.
I know that Peter Corkhill ended up growing some huge hybrid plants in polystyrene fish boxes.
Your Pixi just needs a bit of support whilst the stems are developing - it is probably just down to a bit of wind damage
Graham - Nice plants and I think you are correct in naming them.
I find a large proportion of new plants I buy are mis-labelled.
At least you received similar species of comparable value,
Regards,
David

[Hakone]

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Hakone,
You've been posting these photos for weeks now!
How many different ones do you grow?

Tim DH

[Hakone]

Hi Tim Harberd ,

44 Hybrid and 30 Spezies


Best Regards


Hakone

[ichristie]

Thanks everyone for all the super pictures, Angie yours look great despite you being worried they were not doing well. I saw all the hundreds of plants at Amand's stand at Chelsea so many flowers , cheers Ian the Christie kind

[angie]

Steve - those fargesii plants and photos are superb.
Angie - I'm testing this assertion about plant size and rot.
It was Michael Wienert who stated that it is best to split them at 10-15 bud size.
Well if I did that I would be overrun with plants plus I like to grow them to specimen size.
Splitting them up is not easy and they take a year or two to recover.
Michael W may have been talking about plants grown in soil.
As all mine are in perlite, we'll see what happens.
So far I've found no extra problems with large plants compared to smaller ones.
I know that Peter Corkhill ended up growing some huge hybrid plants in polystyrene fish boxes.
Your Pixi just needs a bit of support whilst the stems are developing - it is probably just down to a bit of wind damage
Graham - Nice plants and I think you are correct in naming them.
I find a large proportion of new plants I buy are mis-labelled.
At least you received similar species of comparable value,
Regards,
David

David I knew I read this somewhere. I really wouldn't want to split a plant that I had waited years for to bulk up but I would hate to lose the plant to rot.It would be interesting to hear others thoughts on this. I think you are right about my pixi as we had hail and wind when the flowers were emerging. I will stake for next year.  I have shifted the plants to give them a bit more protection, its a windy old place here.

Angie 

[angie]

Thanks everyone for all the super pictures, Angie yours look great despite you being worried they were not doing well. I saw all the hundreds of plants at Amand's stand at Chelsea so many flowers , cheers Ian the Christie kind

Ian I was intending to go to Chelsea this year but family commitments have come first.  Maybe its good that I never managed to get there how would I have managed to get all these Cypripediums home. Off course I would have managed, hubby could have easily took the train home, hate having a car with a little boot 

Angie