Something at A & P orchid

[baodai]

Enjoy everyone
BD

 

[goldenrose]

:clap: :clap: Slipper Haven!!! Thanks!

 

[tocarmar]

Thats what I want for X-Mas !!!

Tom

 

[Ayreon]

I will have a Slipper-Hang over tomorrow after looking at those images!

 

[likespaphs]

neat. did you get anything?

 

[SlipperKing]

That first white Paph is to die for! Do you record the name? Thanks BD

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

neat. did you get anything?

Wow! I can't even imagine walking out of there without an armload....:clap:

 

[Rayb]

I was just there today I didn't see that white paph. Most of it was roped off because they had an open house for xmas . Our Orchid Society went there as part of our xmas party.

Ray

 

[tim]

Paph. Clover Charm

That first white is a Paph Clover Charm, which is niveum crossed with Meon. Meon is a green Maudiae type thing...

-Tim

 

[SlipperFan]

I don't think I've ever heard of them before. Google brought me to their website from Massachusetts. Cool.

 

[Bob in Albany N.Y.]

Thanks for sharing those photos. Wish I could pick just a couple of those in bloom complex and bring them home with me.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

I didn't even know that A&P still eixisted....I thought that they had shifted over to phals...then I never heard of them again..............Eric

 

[baodai]

some more

I left with a phrag.
BD

 

[baodai]

Ray,
You didn't see the white paph, maybe it was in my car before you came. Sorry. Was you the one with the Cane?
BD

 

[JeanLux]

looks like a great place for slipper lovers!!!! this red bloom has a crazy color and shape!!! Jean

 

[Heather]

Yeah, I bought my first slipper orchid from A&P. Nick's a sweetheart. Always remembered me from when I bought that St. Peter. Now I know him cause we work the shows together. I wonder how much the Mass Hort. Flower Show being cancelled is going to hurt their business.

They do have a lot fewer paphs and phrags at shows - concentrate more on Phals and the complex slippers for sales but that also probably has something to do with Glen Decker selling more of the species slippers and not wanting to compete. Anyway, they're alive and well, obviously.

What a great thing for a society x-mas party. I wish ours did something a little more orchid related than just getting together to eat lunch. (why I did not attend this year...)

 

[rob]

A&P has always been mostly into slippers and they use to do a lot of their own breeding.The Dr had some impressive breeding stock for the time .They were heavy into multiflorals and parvis and have been doing the complex crosses way before that trend evolved. I think the shift into phals came as we all know that phals are where the money is made in the wholesale trade which I would speculate is a majority of their business. Nick was my patient guide into the world of slipper orchids when I first got hooked on them 10 years ago and I have many hundreds of their orchids. Dr Mustafah is a very knowledgeable grower and breeder but has a talent for putting people off. Nick on the on the hand, is probably one of my favorite orchid 'friends' which reminds me to make a point to head on down to see him. They are a great slipper resource and don't be mislead by the limited supply of slipper orchids at the shows, they have a very large inventory of slippers.
Rob

 

[likespaphs]

well put.

 

[Heather]

Indeed. Rob and BD....where are you guys located?

 

[goldenrose]

Ray,
You didn't see the white paph, maybe it was in my car before you came. Sorry. Was you the one with the Cane?
BD

:rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy: doesn't sound like you're feeling guilty!