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Welcome Jano, from Cornwall, UK. Your English is excellent!

Stunning! Love this species.

Indeed Terry, the next aim is to get it to a fully mature size! It will not need repotting this coming year so there won’t be any shock from that unlike last spring. Fingers crossed!

Good question Linus, it’s all conjecture at the moment and all we’ve to go on is the appearance of the plant and blooms. This plant certainly looks to be a higher ploidy than the other seedlings. That’s about all I can say.

So the good one ( I’ve named it St Ives) has finally opened. This is just day two so there is plenty more expanding to go. Flower width is already 11.5cm and petal width just over 5 cm. Another years growth and it’s clear that this plant is a bit different to all the others. The foliage is...

Welcome from Cornwall! You’ve come to the right place for advice, David

Very very nice. Are those slight flares on the sepals?

Love it.

Love it. You are so lucky to have access to his stuff!

Indeed but we’ve a few more chances in the genetic lottery yet!

Indeed Terry but its 2cm smaller (11cm v 13cm)

Very imposing bloom!

Clone 11 flowering for the second time. It’s a vigorous but sprawling grower with a tall flower stem. It’s also a climber with several dead aerial roots so things are stacked against it. Probably not a keeper. It is however the first one to bloom this time with a flat flower. The stripes across...

Clone 12, second bloom. Better shape but a smaller (10cm NS) flower. It’s definitely now a keeper.

No. I gave up on it in the end.

That is stunning William!

Nice. I love these red circle of life cultivars.

Cute, such unusual colours!

Love it!

No. There was a notorious scam using a doctored photo a few years ago of album roth. They were offering seedlings. Some people lost a lot of money.