My Paphs 2008 - so far

[GuRu]

Hello all,

so far I flowered just few of my Paphs in 2008 and hopefully I will flower some more during the rest of the year.
Paph appletonianum was in flower some months ago but I thought by myself I will wait to post the photo until some more are in flower. But when my Paph Ho Chi Minh flowered only few weeks ago at the beginning I didn't have time to take a photo and in the end the flower started already to wilt when I intended to take photos.
But now and today here it is together with another beauty.

Paph supardii is the second multifloral that I brought to flower and I like it very much.

two close ups of a single flower

and a close up of the staminody

Enjoy and I hope you will like them.
Best regards from Germany, GuRu

 

[SlipperKing]

Nice Photos , Nice Plants! esp the supardii!!

Rick H

 

[Candace]

I'm partial to the supardii too. Why don't I have one?!

 

[Ross]

Nice photos of beautiful flowers! I especially like the closeup of the staminode. I look forward to more pictures as your plants bloom.

 

[Berrak]

Wow! especially supardii like clowns that gives me a good mood

 

[JeanLux]

Of course the supardii is the more spectacular one, but I really like the colors and shape of your appletonianum!! Jean

 

[NYEric]

Nice photos.

 

[paphioboy]

Both are very nice..! How many flowers are there on the supardii? 4?

 

[Rick]

That is a very nice clone of appletonianum. What is the source?

 

[rdlsreno]

Very nice!! Excellent photos!!

Ramon

 

[GuRu]

...How many flowers are there on the supardii? 4?

Yep!!
But to be honest There is a reason why I didn't show all 4 flowers in my photo. The flower at the top of the spike is misshaped, it's pouch is nearly missing. That's why it looks not so good and could be an example for the freak section.
Best regards from Germany, GuRu

 

[GuRu]

That is a very nice clone of appletonianum. What is the source?

Hi Rick,
I purchased it in the nursery of Boschi Popow in Wolfsburg/Germany. I know him well and I purchased many of my Paphs also the Paph supardii there.

Best regards from Germany, GuRu

 

[SlipperFan]

I, too, like the supardii a lot.

 

[GuRu]

Paph hermannii and Paph liemianum 2008

These are update photos of these two species in flower in 2008. Both had flowered for the last time before in 2006.
In my humble opinion Paph hermannii is still a good species and I don't care whether with natural hybrid or true species origin.
I don't know whether anybody knows the name WALTER RICHTER. He was a famous German gardener and writer of orchid books. I knew him personally and he once said to me: `"The most important thing is to grow the plant well and flower it regularly. Names of plants are secondary because they are just man made and they come and go."
Somehow he was a wise man in my eyes.
Enjoy the photos

and a closeup of the staminode

and a closeup of the staminode

Best regards from Germany, rudolf

 

[SlipperKing]

Beautiful flowers and photos!!!! Great job again

 

[SlipperFan]

"The most important thing is to grow the plant well and flower it regularly. Names of plants are secondary because they are just man made and they come and go."

Isn't that the truth! We humans are very caught up in names -- I suppose partly because we can "own" them if we know their names. And we see, these days, how orchid names come and go!

 

[paphioboy]

Rudolf, is the flower of hermannii actually so much larger than the plant? The flower looks enormous... Nice liemianum too.. I like both of them...

 

[Jorch]

beautiful flowers! Love the supardii!

 

[Rick]

Great flowers and great pics too.:clap:

 

[JeanLux]

Bravo, bravo!!! for the flowers and the photos, esp. close-ups!!! Jean