Summer 2009 Project - PLANT SUGGESTIONS

[Zoi2]

Originally Posted by flhiker

Not sure yet! Once we get enough plants for the poll. I will make a list and ask the vendors if they have enough, and if they are blooming size. What they can supply will make it to the final poll for vote. Thats why I need as many plant suggestion as possible.

Sorry Dave, I meant the new additions from this evening. I had previously looked at a couple but they are small seedlings. There is at least one plant listed that is not a species but a hybrid.
Joann

[flhiker]

Originally Posted by PitcherASAMD

Okay, Here are a bunch more selections with links...Not sure about a few of the EU ones (I put question marks next to the ones I wasn't sure about). Let me know what ya'll think!

Sedirea japonica
Available in USA (Andy’s)
Available in Canada (Paramount)
Available in Europe
Sedirea japonica - Großräschener Orchideen


Paph. venustum
IOSPE PHOTOS
Available in USA:
Oak Hill Gardens
Orchids by Hauserman (Paph. (venustum pardinum x venustum var pynurslanum: Orchids By Hausermann) ?????????? (not sure if this is the right plant)
Available in Europe Claessen Orchideen Kwekerij
Catalogue la cour des orchidées, Paphiopedilum-Zootrophion
Available in Canada:
Paphiopedilums - Orchids In Our Tropics

Paph callosum
Available in USA (Andy’s, OakHill)
Oak Hill Gardens
Available in Europe? Catalogue la cour des orchidées, Paphiopedilum-Zootrophion
Roellke Orchideen


Paph delenatii
Available in USA (Andy’s, OakHill, Hauserman)
Paph. delenatii (Compact): Orchids By Hausermann
Oak Hill Gardens
Available in Europe
Roellke Orchideen
Paphiopedilum delenatii - Großräschener Orchideen
Claessen Orchideen Kwekerij
Catalogue la cour des orchidées, Paphiopedilum-Zootrophion
Available in Canada:
Paph Species and Hybrids(updated on June 22, 2009)
Paphiopedilums - Orchids In Our Tropics


Paph. Magic Lantern
Available in the USA: Orchids by Hauserman Paph. Magic Lantern: Orchids By Hausermann
Available in Canada: Paph Species and Hybrids(updated on June 22, 2009)
Paphiopedilums - Orchids In Our Tropics
Available in EU: Paph. Magic Lantern(delenatii x micranthum) :: Schwerter Orchideenzucht - Das Orchideen Zentrum Westfalens

Thanks Katie. I've add the ones that work. The first one was in a previous project and the Paph Magic Latern I think is a hybrid. Thanks again.

[PitcherASAMD]

Ahhh pooey. I really like those two! Oh well, another time maybe....

[Zoi2]

Here are a couple more.
Joann

Coelogyne cristata (Cool) Andys, Paramount & UK
IOSPE PHOTOS

Dendrobium densiflorum (Cool) Andys, Paramount & UK
IOSPE PHOTOS

Epidendrum porpax (Interm) J & L, Paramount & UK
IOSPE PHOTOS

Miltonia spectabilis (Interm) J & L, Paramount & UK
IOSPE PHOTOS

Paphiopedilum spicerianum (Interm) Andys, Paramount & UK
IOSPE PHOTOS

[Blueszz]

I'm not sure but Sedirea Japonica, wans't that a project plant in the past?

I would suggest Trudelia (Vanda) cristata. It's a intermediate grower, can take temps as low as 35 F but also warm temperatures during the summer are OK. It's a small Vandaceous plant, about 7-8 inches flowering size if I understood well.
It was on project lists before, don't know why it was rejected.

[TylerK]

Since it has been so difficult to find cool growing plants in all three regions, might I suggest that the restrictions be relaxed so that it is necessary to find the cool growers only in the US and Europe? Neither of us Canadian participants have submitted our names for that particular group.

It's great that everyone is trying to be so inclusive (thank-you), but it's creating more hassle than is 100% necessary.

Tyler

[flhiker]

Originally Posted by TylerK

Since it has been so difficult to find cool growing plants in all three regions, might I suggest that the restrictions be relaxed so that it is necessary to find the cool growers only in the US and Europe? Neither of us Canadian participants have submitted our names for that particular group.

It's great that everyone is trying to be so inclusive (thank-you), but it's creating more hassle than is 100% necessary.

Tyler

Thank you Tyler, Well it would be best if we could find plants in all area's but we can make a second list just encase no one else from Canada joins. I left quite a few warm and intermediate's on the list that were not available in Canada, then you and 1 other joined so those were removed. At the time I wasn't sure whether any Canadian's were going to join.
Quite honestly I never would have thought that people from Canada would want to grow a Warm grower, Knowing how cold it gets there. But what do I know.

Anyway go ahead and suggest plants either way and if someone from Canada wants to get a cool grower we will scrap the second list.

[flhiker]

Originally Posted by Blueszz

I'm not sure but Sedirea Japonica, wans't that a project plant in the past?

I would suggest Trudelia (Vanda) cristata. It's a intermediate grower, can take temps as low as 35 F but also warm temperatures during the summer are OK. It's a small Vandaceous plant, about 7-8 inches flowering size if I understood well.
It was on project lists before, don't know why it was rejected.

I'm not able to locate it in Canada. Unless you know one.

[TylerK]

Originally Posted by flhiker

Quite honestly I never would have thought that people from Canada would want to grow a Warm grower, Knowing how cold it gets there. But what do I know.

I personally think the cold climate up here makes it very difficult for cool growers to flourish. I know very few orchids which can survive outside here during the winter, so for most of the year (~oct through may) we have to grow indoors. From my albeit limited experience so far, the warm growers seem to tolerate the inside conditions better than the cool growers.

Tyler

[RosieC]

I think one problem is that people may be away. Here in the UK we are into the vacation period and I've just got back from an early vacation myself.

I had done some looking before but got stuck finding some of the ones I liked in Canada. Now I'm back I'll have another go.

Originally Posted by Narnia

As for intermediate, Masdevallia rolfeana is available at AO and EV (Großräschener Orchids), but I could not find it at any of the recommended Canadian vendors. Maybe someone with more knowledge about Canadian vendors could look in some other places?

This is one of the ones I was looking at before. I would really love to grow it and I had also found it was available in the EU and in the USA but not found it in Canada. Many Masdis would be in the cool group and so from what has been said above it would not matter if a cool grower was available in Canada or not, but this one is more an intemediate (although that makes it better for me)... ho hum, this IS very difficult but I now have a week at home before I go back to work so I will try and spend some time searching.