CANWOS Society Blog June

Plant	Comments
	From Iain Wright on 24th June 2020 Restrepia sp Peter I got this plant from Tony Taylor of Lincoln Orchid Group when he came to talk to us two years ago on growing in baskets. Although he had it down as a species, I am not so sure. If my memory is correct, he got it from Peter and it is indeed dark and spotty.
	From Graham Parker on 23rd June 2020 Coelogyne massangiana first time flower 12 buds! Had to move into basket as the spike got to long 40 cm. slight scent.
	From Graham Parker on 23rd June 2020 Coelogyne massangiana
	From Graham Parker on 23rd June 2020 Bakeria spectabilis 3 spikes, 10 flowers, slight scent.
	From Graham Parker on 23rd June 2020 Bakeria spectabilis
	From Denys Morten on 22nd June 2020 Phragmipedium wallisii x humboldtii The tendrils of this primary hybrid measure 750mm! It was bought last year at Malvern from Peruflora.
	From Denys Morten on 22nd June 2020 Phragmipedium wallisii x humboldtii
	From Iain Wright on 21th June 2020 Lycaste schilleriana This flowered repeatedly over the winter and is now starting again. Strangely enough, I am going to keep it!
	From Iain Wright on 21th June 2020 Masdevallia coriacea This came as a lost label plant to the June 2019 CANWOS meeting when we had a session on culture and shared divisions of orchids between us. Whilst it was being split up, the label came to light. I have finally managed to tease a flower from it.
	From Iain Wright on 21th June 2020 Masdevallia coriacea
	From Iain Wright on 21th June 2020 Maxillaria rufescens 'yellow' These ground level flowers are pleasantly scented and quite abundant.
	From George Hart on 19th June 2020 Cattleya purpurata
	From George Hart on 19th June 2020 Dendrobium antennatum
	From George Hart on 19th June 2020 Dendrobium antennatum
	From Iain Wright on 18th June 2020 Cattleya purpurata var rubra Although this is labelled as var rubra, it might be better described as var striata. See the photos on Jay Pfahl's orchidspecies.com web site - accessible from the main CANWOS web site.
	From Iain Wright on 18th June 2020 Phaius tankervilliae These used to come out just in time for Malvern Show but would have missed this year's!
	From Iain Wright on 18th June 2020 Rhyncostele cordata 'Henry' Denys had two of these in his greenhouse, rather more floriferous than this but my photographs of them were very poor.
	From Iain Wright on 18th June 2020 Sobralia micranthum alba I bought this in the 2006 CANWOS auction and have only ever had a single flower if that. It got the 'blood, fish and bone' treatment last year. Seems like a bit if a trend. If you try this at home, do start in a small way, just a quarter of a teaspoon watered in. Make haste slowly; some plants might not like it.
	From Iain Wright on 18th June 2020 Sobralia micranthum alba
	From Iain Wright on 13th June 2020 How to ruin a good lawn This is a picture of our bottom lawn; the Windmill tower is behind my right shoulder. I used to be quite pleased with it as a lawn. Then one day Celia called me over to 'look at this funny dock leaf in the lawn'. I took one look at it and swore as I recognised it as the leaf of a spotted orchid. We have some cultivated Dactylorhizas growing in the garden so this was not entirely surprising. Looking around, we quickly found another half dozen or so. By June we had nearly thirty and six flowered. As it is extremely unlikely that an orchid would flower in its first year above ground, it implied that I had been mowing them for at least one year!
	From Iain Wright on 13th June 2020 How to ruin a good lawn Over the next few years more and more orchids came up. This year we have nearly one hundred if you include the seeding plants which I am getting better at spotting. Because I cannot mow properly, the creeping buttercup really enjoys itself amongst the clusters of orchids. Lockdown has at least given me the opportunity to weed them out (Boring!) but there is still plenty to do. I could of course just treat them with weed killer, grub out the debris and revert to a perfect lawn - give or take a few mole hills but am I going to do this - NO! It might be worth using selective weedkiller anyway. These are based on killing dicots and, being monocots, orchids should be unaffected. Am I going to try this - well maybe but very carefully on a small patch.
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Cypripedium species
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Doritaenopsis Abed Nego 'Penny'
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Epidendrum pseudoepidendrum
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Masdevallia hybrid
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis Amel Tobia (violacea indigo x pallens alba)
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis Caribbean Sunset x minus
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis Karine Herve
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis luddemanniana
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis Memoria Herman Sweet (equestris x stobartiana)
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis speciosa purple
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis sumatrana red x amboinense white
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis violacea alba x manii v flava
	From Margaret Przywarska on 11th June 2020 Phalaenopsis Yaphon Christmas (Yaphon Little Pixie x Yaphon Lover)
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Brassanthe Ria Meyer I like this plant both for itself and the happy memories that come with it. Floriferous and slightly fragrant, it was given to me by the Trussels, very pleasant people, who used to run an orchid nursery, Whitmoor House, in North Devon. Ann gave it to me as they were leaving to go home after staying with us in order to attend a CANWOS Show. I'm not quite sure which year that was but I have a record of displaying it at the June 1997 CANWOS meeting.
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Brassanthe Ria Meyer This is the best display I have ever had from it and it would have been better if I had trained the flowers a bit more. I repotted it a couple of years ago , replacing the three pots it was in (non-concentricly which is not my normal style) with this significantly larger one. I grow it fairly wet and suspect the couple of teaspoons of 'blood, fish and bone' that I sprinkled over the compost has had a benficial effect.
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Cattleya purpurata alba This definitely the alba form; no ifs or buts!
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Cattleya purpurata alba
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Encyclia prismatocarpum flower
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Encyclia prismatocarpum spike
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Oncidium sphacelatum flower
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Oncidium sphacelatum plant
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Oncidium Splinter 'Norman' flower
	From Iain Wright on 7th June 2020 Oncidium Splinter 'Norman' plant
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Dendrobium Chiyomi
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Dendrobium eximium Celia & I went to see Denys immediately it was legal to do so and sat in his garden drinking the flask of coffee we had brought with us. He let me go into his greenhouse on my own and take these photographs. When I showed him my photographs, he pointed out that this one was in fact Colin's.
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Dendrobium farmeri
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Dendrobium Milky Road
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Dendrobium Spring Dream 'Apollon'
	From Denys Morten on 2nd June 2020 Phalaenopsis sumatrana