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That was a problem I had before I started growing everything in sphagnum. The petals and sepals would reflex and curl and young spikes would dry up in sheeths. -Patrick

When I took the picture was about one in the afternoon and it looks darker in person, about the same as yours. Mine is actually an original division and I wonder if the original plant was virus free when it was cloned or if they thought it was important enough to have the virus taken out. Maybe...

Beautiful simi-alba or as they used to be called Reineckiana which actually means white mossiae with purple throat. -Patrick

Three early spring lavenders, two hybrids you might not have heard about before and a spices that has kind of stood in the shadow of mossiae but, has increased in popularity with hobbyist growers in more recent years. Smells like spring! -Patrick

Lc.Nelly Corradi 1958 (Suprême x Manitoba) beautiful intense yellow and mossiae pattern lip, but it refuses to open properly. -Patrick

It is a light pastel lavender that reminds me of Easter. -Patrick

I have had this one for three years and it has bloomed the first week of February for three years now, but it used to be just about 45 minutes away at Chadwick's so there's not much difference between my greenhouse and theirs. -Patrick

Thanks Leslie, I guess that makes sense being the only large flowered spices that grows at sea level. I always followed the rule that with lavender forms if the leafs have purple spots when they first emerge they are getting enough light to bloom. But I will give it more light next winter. -Patrick

Anyone ever have more than one flower per sheeth on this cultivar ? -Patrick

Thanks Terry, I've only ever had two flowers per spike. since there so large I guess that is as much as it can support. I have just re-done all my tags last month, next time I replace them all I'm thinking of only putting the grex, cultivar, year and awards instead of the genus or intergenaric...

I love Hausermann's hybrids, being a cut flower producer they love mossiae as much as I do and crossed it with every big spring hybrid because they knew the offspring would be large, floppy, lavender, fragrant and spectacular. Shown is Lc.Time-Life 1972 (mossiae x Irene Finney) 69.53% mossiae...

Lovely dark color clone! Thanks for sharing. -Patrick

Déesse truly gave us so many great pastel pink/purple raspberry lip hybrids. -Patrick

Yes! Like citrus & jasmine. -Patrick

One of Yamamoto's late 1990's hybrids that you can find clones of in European grocery stores from time to time. The so called "Nolbelie type dendrobium". -Patrick

Beautiful, I Always love the shape of villosum. -Patrick

Yah, That's what I thought. Last time one of my English friends went to McBean's he said that there was mostly Cymbidiums & Odontoglossums also a few Paphiopedilums and Phalaenopsis floating around. -Patrick

I don't think plants of great value or historical value that are virused should be thrown away. They should be kept in collections such as mine! I have started taking valuable and historic plants from my OS that would be disposeed of and possibly lost forever. I like to think that some day it...

I don't think McBeans dose much with cattleyas anymore, but maybe you know more about that David? -Patrick

I use H²O² at 3% with the smallest bit of dish detergent for Cattleyas just because I do dry pod as to not transfer virus to the offspring. And so I do not have to go through the hassle of washing the bleach off the seeds. -Patrick