emydura
Well-Known Member
Here are some photos of our recent show.
I picked up Champion Paph with my dianthum even though the flowers had been open for months and I had pollinated two of the flowers. I’m told if I hadn’t removed the pouches I would have won Champion specimen as well.
You cost me a trophy JohnM. oke:
I bought this Paph off a society member. It was meant to be a villosum but obviously is not. A esquirlei I think. I told him as I was registering my plants that I want my $5 back (jokingly). It ended up winning champion seedling. It only opened the day before the show as well. Nice colour and shape although a little small.
Interestingly, I benched my insigne “Sanderae” into the show. The flower was a bit past it so I wasn’t expecting much. But the judges said it was not an insigne and that it had to be a hybrid. I guess if you have never seen an insigne “sanderae” you can be excused for thinking it can’t be the species, but I would have thought one of the judges would have been able to recognise it. At least they didn’t say my sukhakulii was a wardii hybrid as in a previous year.
I had quite a few other Paphs on the bench but you have already seen those so I won’t bother showing them. Here are a few others. This one won best multi-floral –
Paph roebellinii x latifolium
Paph Helvetia
Another similar sequential hybrid
Paph Temptation
I picked up Champion Paph with my dianthum even though the flowers had been open for months and I had pollinated two of the flowers. I’m told if I hadn’t removed the pouches I would have won Champion specimen as well.
You cost me a trophy JohnM. oke:
I bought this Paph off a society member. It was meant to be a villosum but obviously is not. A esquirlei I think. I told him as I was registering my plants that I want my $5 back (jokingly). It ended up winning champion seedling. It only opened the day before the show as well. Nice colour and shape although a little small.
Interestingly, I benched my insigne “Sanderae” into the show. The flower was a bit past it so I wasn’t expecting much. But the judges said it was not an insigne and that it had to be a hybrid. I guess if you have never seen an insigne “sanderae” you can be excused for thinking it can’t be the species, but I would have thought one of the judges would have been able to recognise it. At least they didn’t say my sukhakulii was a wardii hybrid as in a previous year.
I had quite a few other Paphs on the bench but you have already seen those so I won’t bother showing them. Here are a few others. This one won best multi-floral –
Paph roebellinii x latifolium
Paph Helvetia
Another similar sequential hybrid
Paph Temptation
