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'Ashlands' is a US plant, to the best of my knowledge, and 'Norriton' is a UK plant, so I would assume it was used. The difference in the foliage is another sign that the tetraploid parent is more influential...any of the scenarios you suggest are certainly possible...just an interesting...

This grex is so interesting from a breeding perspective. Whitmoor 'Norriton' FCC/AOS, AM/RHS was one of the very early counted tetraploid paphs. Denehurst 'Surprise' AM/AOS-RHS, and the grex as a whole to the best of my knowledge, is counted diploid. Saint Ouen's Bay clearly takes after...

A cross of McLaren Park 'San Mateo' AM/AOS and F.C. Puddle 'Superbum', this grex was made and registered by Rod McClellan's for their valued customer W. Jack Tonkin in 1966. Tonkin was just getting started breeding plants himself at the time, and was noted by the short-lived journal The...

A little more on Fred Puddle: Frederick Charles Puddle had a greenhouse by age 15 in which he grew champion mums; he initially trained with Veitch and was head grower at Scampston Hall for St. Quintin before moving to Bodnant in 1920 and growing for Charles McLaren, Lord Aberconway. William...

Of those of you who've bloomed these, has anyone seen flower counts similar to 'Riopelle' - 9 or more flowers per inflorescence? Seems like most of them have 5-7, and very rarely more...I'm curious to know just how often you find a clone with a great count. In any case a beautiful flower!

Have you Chicago-ites heard from Arnie Klehm recently? Is he digging out successfully from the fire?

best petals of any I've seen...really nice.

looks to me like the common West Coast, erosion-controlling, mat-forming, invasive iceplant, Carpobrotus (or Mesembyranthemum) edulis, from South Africa. Are you seeing it in Seattle? That seems cold for it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpobrotus_edulis

"Lehua" rather than "Lahua" so ppl can google correctly... :) The bottom plant has a dose of mastersianum in it from both sides as well - Grand Illusions is Macabre x Grand Master, which is 1/2 mastersianum, and Red Star is progeny from Red Maude, which has William Matthews in its background, a...

wow...good ones of this type of breeding are soooo good.

Oakeley's Lycaste Book is incredible.

Hello all, I've had a request for some information regarding the first awards to paph species named since 1980 or so. The request asked for the first award to each "new" species and the country in which the award was given. I built the linked list below from AOS, TPS, JOGA, TOGA, and RHT data...

Impressed with the color...Small World seems like Hellas in its ability to not transmit much color to progeny...

callosum 'JAC' group and the callosum 'Sparkling Burgundy' or 'Ebony - something' group are not the same in terms of how their colors are distributed; the genetics of vinicolor are multi-allelic and vini x vini does not always make vini. If you self your plant, some of the offspring will pick...

beautiful glowing color from Menthule and good stem from Marlborough...very nice. I have a big group of Spotglen x Menthule seedlings to bloom...hope one turns out as good as this...

That's really remarkable considering Maginot, which is a very broad, brown flower, with narrow segments...did it at least get some size from Maginot? I am constantly impressed by Paeony as a parent.

I wonder how those plants made it to Australia. Beatrice Ernst is Evansrose x Winston Churchill, and it was made by Robert Ernst, a hobbyist in LA. Evansrose is a Black and Flory hybrid from the 1950s. I've only heard of Evansrose 'Woodland Hills', Robert's plant, and I'm sure the seedlings...

What Beatrice Ernst is in Australia? So many nice clones of that grex...yours is very nice

I wonder if the remakes were made with the same Paeony...I have to imagine the same Radley, but with such a variety of Paeony sibbings blooming at nearly the same time as the first flowering of Amanda 'Joyance', maybe Ratcliffes remade Amanda with Paeony 'Mulberry' or 'Debonaire' or something...

Margaret Brands and Wildroot and such things have such interesting color...and have been used so infrequently in breeding..Thanks for showing us what Paeony does...do you know which Paeony in this case?