Heather said:
Nice haul Sue!
That mali. x whil. sounds pretty interesting....
great deal too.
I'm excited about it. It's a two-growth unbloomed plant. An interesting thing: it's tiny compared to my Hideki Okuyama (malipoense x glanduliferum). I thought wilhelminae wasn't too much smaller than glanduliferum . . . either I was wrong (likely), or the size genes ended up being more dominant in the one case compared to the other.
I will of course post pics. I was actually tempted to post a pic of these two together, even though neither is even in sheath. I might still do so. I am a big orchid dork.
TADD said:
We have already bought from Whiporwill or how ever you spell it, I hope they got some paphs and not just phals and phrags....
They've got some exciting stuff. If I were you I'd pre-order a Hell's Chamber. Ok, if I were actually you, I'd pre-order three of the fairrie albas. But you know what I meant. Their (Paph Flash Point ‘Vini Flash’ x California Girl ‘Sunburnt’) is pretty exciting too.
Mycorrhizae said:
For what it's worth - I paid $500 for my Orchilla 'Chilton' FCC/AOS some 25 years ago. It's a prolific grower - easy to see why it has gotten so inexpense over the years. It's still one of the nicest things you could ever want in your collection, too.
Is your Paph. Winston Churchill a named cultivar or is it a seedling?
(We just need to know how MUCH to hate you.)
These auctions are frightening. I'm not sure how much is just market forces and how much is the fact of being in St. Louis, where we have a judging center and a botanical garden with a great orchid collection.
We have three auctions every year, all over the summer. At the first one, I got some nice stuff, including a Paph. Freckles 'Cream Puff' for $5. I was surprised to find this clone had an HCC, and Marriott was selling it for $100/div. Then, at the second auction, I got a three-plant mini-compot of Paph. delenatii var. albinum. For $10, I think. Then, at this last one, I got the Orchilla for $12, and the Winston for $10.
It's creepy. I'm not sure how to think about them. I feel like I should just sell them and reap the obvious profits. I never would have bought any of them at market value. But, I'll tell you, I'm starting to have a pretty nice collection for doing professional-level breeding. Cross Winston or Orchilla with Tiny Charlie? Or Dellaina? Or Natasha Von Fox? Or Dollcevita/Shireen/Helvetia? I'm SOOO excited about the options.
To answer your question: the Winston Churchill is not named. It is a mature, two-growth previously bloomed division. This was donated by the gardens, and . . . may have had a clonal name, but I didn't get record of it.
For those of you who have a morbid fascination, here are the highest prices I've found:
Paph. Orchilla 'Chilton' FCC/AOS
Zephyrus sells it. Note that price is
per growth: $1000. That makes mine $2000 retail, with 2 emerging growths as well.
http://www.zephyrusorchids.com/catalogdivisions.htm
That's overpriced though (obvious statement?). Marriott has it for $200 per division:
http://www.marriottorchids.com/division list.html
and someone got one on ebay for a mere $113.50
The Paph. Winston Churchill is also frightening.
$875:
http://www.orchidweb.com/cat_dtl.asp?P_Recno=3388
But, once again, Marriott is cheaper, at $300 for the FCC awarded Winston
http://www.marriottorchids.com/division list.html
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Unrelatedly, does anybody have the (barbigerum x Winston Churchill)? I can't find a pic, and it seems like it can't be so uncommon . . .