mixed phrags (seyour towers and pearcei)

[cnycharles]

My first phrag seymour tower has an old second flower, and I recently received another one in flower from norman's orchids. I'd been waiting about a month for a shipping window to have normans send some plants. We got tired of waiting, so decided on overnight shipping and then one day (wednesday) was above freezing so I gave them the go-ahead. turns out north carolina, tennessee and area was about to have a messy storm, and sure enough fedex express landed the plane in tenessee! (sigh) It did make it out of the airport before flights got delayed, so it arrived here at work on time! It is even darker and bigger than the first one I got a few weeks ago! Norman's did a great job of packing the plant so that all the flowers made it through cleanly. It's a great plant by the way, and they still have more listed as available. The plant I received has flowers that are very close to the ones on their website

second flower of first seymour tower and flower of second

second bloom, orchids for you seymour tower

norman's seymour tower

 

[Lordoftheswarms]

I came for the pearcei.

 

[cnycharles]

two seymour towers and phrag pearcei

when I went to the deep cut orchid society show a few weeks ago, ecuagenera had a pile of orchids and one phrag pearcei that had two flower spikes; one with an old flower and more buds, and a new spike coming up. it was only $20! I wasn't planning on buying a pearcei, but later when I went back and it was still there I bought it

 

[mrhappyrotter]

Cool. I have both of these phrags and both are blooming for me, too. Must be that season.

 

[NYEric]

I came for the pearcei.

Thanks for sharing. $20 is a great price for a budded pearcei.

 

[eaborne]

Nice to see the variations in the two Seymour Towers!

 

[abax]

Nice to see any flowers this time of year! Gooooood haul
you got there. I love the darker Seymour...veeerrrry pretty color.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Interesting to see the variation in flowers for the Seymour Tower. Is one type better for seeing the fenestrations?

 

[phrag guy]

very nice

 

[MaryPientka]

Beautiful! like the pink on your pearcei

 

[Secundino]

Well, it seems like I need a pearcei, too. Very appealing!

 

[Clark]

Great deal on pearcei.
Seymour tower looking good!

 

[cnycharles]

Interesting to see the variation in flowers for the Seymour Tower. Is one type better for seeing the fenestrations?

If I remember from last nights pic taking, the darker one seemed to have more visible windows. Maybe the lighter one was a schlimii pod parent and the darker the dalessandroi? Might explain the differences. The fragrances are almost identical though I think a tiny bit different

Looking closely tonight both flowers have the fenestration marks, but the redder one has thinner spots where more light shows through

 

[SlipperFan]

Lovelies!

 

[Kawarthapine]

Love the left Seymour. They travelled very well.