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Spring-Summer 2010
Our Spring plant shipments were completed the first week in May. Thank you to everyone who purchased plants this Spring.
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First Time Blooms for Us
This is Cyp Victoria (pubescens x fasciolatum). The flower is quite large, plant size about 12 inches now. Victoria was registered by Peter Corkhill in 2005.
Cyp Inge is the parviflorum version of Victoria. Many plants of this hybrid bloomed for the first time this season; flower size
is variable and smaller than Victoria.
Cyp macranthos var hotei-atsumorianum said to be descended from parents from the Kamanashi region in Japan. The intensity of
the coloration is extraordinary!
The following are first time flowering plants from our own crosses:
We are quite pleased with this flower! Cyp GPH Tom Velardi (macranthos var alba x Sabine) has a very large flower, 9.5 cm from sepal tip to sepal tip. It's flower is larger than all of our Sabine with the exception of our oldest plant - but Tom will likely be larger each year for at least a couple of years. Tom Velardi is a great friend who has done much to popularize terrestrial orchid cultivation and is a dominant force in putting growers together.
Cyp GPH Crimson Promise (Gisela x Maria) is a very attractive red flower. It is small like both of its parents. In its first year blooming it has two flowers on three stems.
Cyp Dieter (xandrewsii x candidum) is named for our good friend and self-styled "cypmaniac" Dieter Hach.
Cyp Geisha (Gisela x candidum) is a most attractive small flower. The plant had three flowers at its first blooming. Many visitors to the Gardens wanted it! We will have some more coming along but we find that Gisela is only poorly fertile as a parent so they will be few.
Cyp Spirit of Violet. We made this cross (Gisela x macranthos) in 2005, blooming here for the first time. The cross was registered in 2009 by Vossler.
