A visit to Orchideen Lucke in Germany

[camille1585]

This weekend Orchideen Lucke in Germany had their annual open house, and so we made the 1 hour drive across the border for me to go drool over their greenhouses and hand them my credit card...

I ordered several times from them in the past, and always recieved perfect plants. Walking into their greenhouses for the first time it's easy to see why; they are immaculate. Clean paths and benches, no weeds, nothing in soggy/stale media, and the employees are super pleasant and helpful people.

I was reasonable and only got 4 plants (partly because I have an order from another grower due to arrive soon... )

I got a Sophronitis cernua, Phal schilleriana,
Phalaenopis (amabilis x tetraspis #C1) x tetraspis #C1, and Lc. Tropical Trick "Machado #5"

This is the Lc. Tropical Trick:


And the Phal tetraspis #C1 cross:


Their show area set up for the weekend:







And some photos of their beautiful greenhouses:

[jcec1]

Very nice, I particularly like the phalaenopsis. I placed an order with them last year - I can feel another coming on soon. Here the country has come to a standstill because of the Siberian winter snow - I take you were not badly affected.

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by jcec1

Very nice, I particularly like the phalaenopsis. I placed an order with them last year - I can feel another coming on soon. Here the country has come to a standstill because of the Siberian winter snow - I take you were not badly affected.

I was meaning to order from them, and when I found out about the open house weekend I thought I'd wait for that! I didn't save compared to paying the shipping costs though, gas is expensive here and my boyfriend felt like testing the autobahn "speed limit"...

We didn't get a single snowflake in our part of the Netherlands. Much to the Dutchies relief, with the frigid cold temps (-10C at the worst) the ponds and canals froze solid and seemingly everyone took time off work to jump on their ice skates.

[DeaC]

I'd say you had a very colorful,happy excursion and such glorious surroundings to part with your money! TY for the fotos.

[jcec1]

Order placed

[camille1585]

What did you order? I love this forum, we're always enabling other people to buy more orchids!

And I just got an email from Elsner saying my my order (from 3 weeks ago) is finally shipping out tomorrow. So many new orchids! My boyfriend is not sure what to think of it.

[jcec1]

Originally Posted by camille1585

What did you order? I love this forum, we're always enabling other people to buy more orchids!

And I just got an email from Elsner saying my my order (from 3 weeks ago) is finally shipping out tomorrow. So many new orchids! My boyfriend is not sure what to think of it.

Phalaenopsis (Encarnada de Caso x George Vasquez) x bellina
Phalaenopsis Younghome Lucky Star x Ambotrana
Dendrobium Nora Tokunaga
Miltassia Kauai´s Choice
Miltonia candida x Binotii

I am trying not to add too many phals as the space I grow them in is full. I have a few oncidium types so two more will be a nice addition. The dendrobium is an unknown - I have one solitary den-phal which is in it's third year so it will soon have a companion.

[Leafmite]

Wow! Fabulous!

[Dollythehun]

Amazing Camille. How did you get pictures without people all over?

[fishmom]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Much to the Dutchies relief, with the frigid cold temps (-10C at the worst) the ponds and canals froze solid and seemingly everyone took time off work to jump on their ice skates.

We saw pictures of this on the TV news last night! Interesting to see ordinary folks in speed-skating posture.

Beautiful Phal. tetraspis cross. I wonder if the color pattern will stay the same over time.