I had a short visit with Alfredo Manrique at his nursery. He is constantly making seed with his P. kovachii plants.
Alfredo with his wild collected kovachii breeding plants.
He uses every flower to make seed so it is rare to see more than one bloom open at any given time.
This one is just opening up.
Most of his flowers look like this.
His older undivided plants make an attractive plant even without flowers.
This year he is growing out more pk hybrids.
This is one of his stud plants.
I don't remember the name but it is one he used to make one of the first hybrids.
This was a bloom from the hybrid made crossing kovachii with the above flower.
Now Alfredo has back crossed it to kovachii.
Alfredo with his wild collected kovachii breeding plants.
He uses every flower to make seed so it is rare to see more than one bloom open at any given time.
This one is just opening up.
Most of his flowers look like this.
His older undivided plants make an attractive plant even without flowers.
This year he is growing out more pk hybrids.
This is one of his stud plants.
I don't remember the name but it is one he used to make one of the first hybrids.
This was a bloom from the hybrid made crossing kovachii with the above flower.
Now Alfredo has back crossed it to kovachii.
Say "Hi!" to Manrique for us.
