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This is an interesting thread - and I would agree with what has been said above. I grow all my multiflorals in the brightest part of the north facing shade-house (Southern hemisphere) and they are bathed in full sun all day. Even through the shade cloth is at 70%, in summer you still bake when...

👍 Fully agree Jens

Stunning, stunning flower!! Colour, solid dark pouch, petal width, it ticks the boxes!!... I hope you can figure out what it is? I can't help thinking that this crossed onto a black/dark godefroyae or bellatulum would give HS Wild Cat a run for its money. JL

I used to show Weimaraners... and I thought it was a race to the bottom of the intelligence ladder between them and Irish Setters in the gundog group... :) But would still never trade them in for any other breed... They kind of addictive like paphs... :cool: JL

Oops .... "very much in business" :D

Hi They are very much business. I placed and received my order at the end of 2022 (really great plants) and have since then been in touch with Mike on email. Have you got the correct email details? Kind regards JL

At least it will provide some entertainment... JL

Hi Ray I absolutely agree with your sentiments - but was trying to work out what the RHS accepts or does not accept. I have successfully used the pollen from my WBW, but was trying to figure out what the parentage of such cross would be for registration purposes. I assumed that WBW would not...

Hi All Compliments of the season to everybody on this forum. I have been splurging on Paph anitum progeny in the last few years and I have been very well rewarded this spring/summer flowering season. This despite that Durban has been experiencing many cold (as low as 15c (60f) ;), it's all...

I still have a soft spot for P. Leeanum and P. insigne. They were my first orchids 40 years ago. My grandmother gave me some from her garden in Mauritius where she grew them as a bedding plant (she had named them white slipper and green slipper). They were amazing when they all flowered at the...

Correct - it is the RHS app https://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/orchidregister/orchiddetails.asp?ID=3005 JL

My error... I see now it's an old post that has been revived... dated June 2021... So, our plants would be in sync as early summer flowerers. JL

Hi Phred Is the plant in your pictures in flower now? I ask as mine (1st flowering) has just come into flower in the southern hemisphere and I'm trying to figure out if its confused (I received it about a year ago from Germany) or the species has a long flowering period. I'm glad to see the...

Hold Alt key and then press 0215 to get a × x is easier ;) JL

My Paph. Kimballianum has been on a suicide mission for years. Every time I nurse it back to health, it gets knocked back.... never flowered for me... JL

Hi I have been asked to write an article for Orchids South Africa (the SAOC's journal) on Paph rungsuriyanum and its first crop of hybrids. Of the hybrids I own, I have only managed to flower P Hanoi Fairy and P Haiphong Baby, so I am now searching for pictures of others. I noticed some have...

Hi All A 1st flowering Paph. sulivongii. Originally described as a variety of barbigerum but now considered as part of the gratrixianum complex. JL

"...They are one of the easiest orchids to grow, especially for beginners." When I think of how many I have sent to the great compost heap in the sky, maybe I'm still on the level below beginner status... 😂 JL

Welcome fellow Saffa My phrags are loving our wet weather - but not my paphs :-( JL

I took the photo when it had just opened. It took a week but it did flatten out nicely, except for the petals ;-) JL