My goal of owning every Phal species - made good progress with some purchases today

[Undergrounder]

Cool, I sent you a pm.

None of the pics i posted are indigo violaceas, those are just like the violacea 'Blue' one you got, which is a selfing originally from Krull-Smith. All of those blue/indigo violaceas are from crosses originally by Krull-Smith and the Nortons: Birth of the Blues. The one you posted i think is really nice! big flower, great shape... the selflings should be nice,

The ones i posted (in order) are the tetraspis, Joy Nancy Lady, the red/yellow harlequin hybrid, then the amboinensis flava and the lobbii x amabilis

Yeah i did notice the Little Ladies, but they're pretty common nowadays, a lot of florists are selling them. They're all little miniature Phal hybrids with a lot of Phal. equestris in them, a company in Sydney imports them and sends them on to florists around Australia.. i already have one, it's about to flower now, i wouldn't get any more.

As for Graham, he doesn't have a nursery per se, but he has greenhouses in QLD and does sell to the public. I think he's working on a website now.

He was at the stall right next to the Wus, all he had were Phals... he had an exhibit as well, it was this one:





His amabilis won grand champion of the show:





By the way are you limiting yourself just to one of each of the species? Or are you open to primary hybrids? LOL. Because then of course you're going to need to get into diploid novelties and before you know it you'll be swimming in Phals!

[OzPhal]

Originally Posted by Undergrounder

He was at the stall right next to the Wus, all he had were Phals...

By the way are you limiting yourself just to one of each of the species? Or are you open to primary hybrids? LOL. Because then of course you're going to need to get into diploid novelties and before you know it you'll be swimming in Phals!

Yeah, i did notice his stand - by the time i saw it though i was wiped out on the $$ front so i, sadly, didnt want to tempt myself... did he have any species? I'm really keen to get a bellina and a speciosa.

NNnooooo - not limiting myself to one of each at all - i just have to have a plan to work to otherwise i'll end up running out of room first cab off the rank - species hopefully every singe one of them... I fear by the end of this i'm going to need an olympic size swimming pool or two for the amount of Phals i'm going to be swimming in...the one thing holding me back at the moment is the fact that i rent and don't have a glasshouse - that's probably a good thing given i am getting married in November