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Interesting thread.
I tend to agree with Matt, though. Although there are some in the complex category I appreciate, there are very few I like enough to try to purchase. Like Jason, I've observed that most of the complexes seem to have really bad flaws. The photos posted here in this thread so far are certainly exceptions.
I think that all of this is due to the concept of trying to create a perfectly round flower. This was the case with Phals and Cattleys, as well. For some reason, the idea of "round" became the ideal. I asked a question about that at a Slipper symposium at our local judging center last Spring, but never really got a satisfactory answer as to why round became the ideal.
Triangles, I think, are just as nice. Then there are the long-petaled shapes...
I tend to agree with Matt, though. Although there are some in the complex category I appreciate, there are very few I like enough to try to purchase. Like Jason, I've observed that most of the complexes seem to have really bad flaws. The photos posted here in this thread so far are certainly exceptions.
I think that all of this is due to the concept of trying to create a perfectly round flower. This was the case with Phals and Cattleys, as well. For some reason, the idea of "round" became the ideal. I asked a question about that at a Slipper symposium at our local judging center last Spring, but never really got a satisfactory answer as to why round became the ideal.
Triangles, I think, are just as nice. Then there are the long-petaled shapes...