springtime species

[Pete]

all are first blooms. 'tis the season. pretty much everything is blooming right now in the greenhouse, especially the bornean species. the other day i had 4 different sanderianum, as well as numerous lowii, stonei, roth, kolopakingii, all going. quite a site

here are 3 first bloom sanderianum

this is just what i thought was amazing. this is the inflorescence of P. hookerae var. volonteanum, and it is already at 53cm. each time it blooms it does a few cm more. i think last year it was close to 60cm when it opened.

and finally Paphiopedilum suppardii-another first bloomer. this one has grown easy for me. sorry for the poor quality on the first photo.. you can see the same volonteanum inflorescence in background too.

 

[cattmad]

nice sandies

 

[quietaustralian]

Beautiful!

 

[Bob in Albany N.Y.]

Very nice Pete. Thanks for sharing your garden of eden with us.

 

[Ozpaph]

How greedy! Having 3 sandies, really..............

Great culture. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Paul]

You have very nice blooms here, welle done!!

 

[Justin]

Awesome. All of them are really nice. My supardii have much skinnier leaves than yours. Any update on your stonei?

 

[Shiva]

Beautiful! If I ever get the money, I'll move to your area.

 

[Susie11]

Awesome!

 

[Rick]

All VERY NICE:clap::clap:

What is the leaf span of your sanderianums?

Do you know the parentage of your supardii? I might need pollen!

 

[Spaph]

Super spring showing, great first blooming supardii with 5 blooms!

 

[Paph_LdyMacBeth]

Wonderful blooms. Looks like you have a great set up too. You are very fortunate.

 

[Ruth]

:clap:All those lovely multi's and Hawaii too! wow!

 

[NYEric]

Thanks for sharing. Wow! I had no idea hookers got so tall!
Did you ever come up w/ a price for the haini compot!?

 

[SlipperFan]

It must be a joy to work in there!

 

[W. Beetus]

Great blooms! I'll be interested in seeing how tall the hookerae gets also.

 

[Stone]

Nice one Pete! how old are the sandies?

 

[John M]

Wow, Pete! They all look wonderful! Love the supardii!

 

[Paphman910]

Wow! :drool::drool::drool::drool:

Paphman910

 

[Wendy]

All I can say is....WOW! :drool: