new plants

[monocotman]

Hi,

three plants currently in flower.
The first two are recent acquisitions from Ratcliffes.
First up is Jersey 'Lauren', a triploid form of the cross as one of the parents is a tetraploid form of besseae 'Mont Milais'.
The other parent is dallesandroi.
Second plant is a fairly common thing - schlimii 'wilcox' aka cardinale.
Both plants are settling down growing in a 100% inorganic mix of growstones and leca.
I got the idea after the orchid web recommended this for the phrag hybrid Suzanne Decker and my plant seems to be doing well in it.
I wanted to see whether these water lovers would grow inorganically and I like the idea of trying to removing the inconsistency of bark composts from a growing regime.
Last up is a second photo of Grouville 4n ( hanne popow x eric young) and is a well balanced pinky flower. It is growing on me.
I was distinctly underwhelmed by the first flower.
I've managed to sort the upload issues I have with the ipad by going back to my old dell computer.
Still works well and I can load more than one photo per post!

Regards,

David

 

[trdyl]

Beautiful!

I love the color of your Jersey.

 

[17andgrowing]

Lovely.

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice -- all three.

 

[abax]

I like all three, but the little pinky just looks so upbeat and
happy...sort of three cheers for me!

 

[NYEric]

Yay besseae hybrids and that 'cheaty' other thing! :evil: The Phag Jersey is typical. Generally the benefits of the cross are a mix of colors and the ability to easily branch, bringing the flower count up.

 

[Migrant13]

Nice. The cardinale with the wing flaps is pretty cool.