Paph Lady Booth

This is a new acquisition. The flowers on this gorgeous plant are 6" across and 8" long. It had 4 blossoms but only 2 are left.

A New Cyp parviflorum

I've moved it into a 2 gallon pot, where it will stay for the foreseeable future. It will be showed next year. Nice big, robust division.

Paphiopedilum Wossner Armenijack

This is a fantastic new hybrid from subgenus Parvisepalum. It has a very large flower. In time, it should turn yellow, but for now, it's a lovely shade of green. It also has another bud coming. The plant is compact but the flower is held high, and it has beautiful mottled leaves with purple undersides. This is a cross between P. armeniacum and P. jackii.

Cypripedium parviflorum Gallery 2

Cypripedium parviflorum is commonly called yellow lady's slipper. This native orchid makes a great garden plant, and as these photos show, it is very variable!

Cypripedium parviflorum Gallery 1

Lilies

Above are two Asiatic lilies which I've bought this year - 'Black Watch' and 'Latvia'.

Some More Pics

I have no idea what bariety of daffodil this is, but its a cute and attractive little dwarf.
Viola cernuum.
A nicer view of the Dicentra 'Goldheart'. These are all older pics.

Orchids

Phrag Memoria Garren Weaver. These are all outside for the summer.
Paph. Deperle.
Paph. Avalon Mist. Couldn't quite get a satisfactory photo.

I also have a few in bud: Paph Wossner Armenijack, Paph Joyce Hasegawa x chamberlainianum, and Phal Maki Watanabe. I haven't moved those outside yet, because I'm afraid the buds will drop. Once the flowers open they will be moved.

More Garden Photos

Dodecatheon meadia, shooting star. A great woodland plant. Some say it grows better in full sun, but I've found they wilt horribly.
Another Cyp. parviflorum var. makasin. These are flowering just before var. pubescens.
Allium aflatuense 'Purple Sensation'. Full 4" diameter flowers.
Cyp. parviflorum var. pubescens, large-flowered yellow lady's slipper. This is a first-bloom seedling, but it still has flowers twice the size of var. makasin. Eventually they will be 3 times the size. This is the first of my pubescens to flower this year.

June 3 Garden Photos

Lilium philadelphicum, western wood lily. This little gem is really hard to find, both in the wild and for sale. It is a native to my area, a widespread plant of western North America. It is now sparse due to overcollecting and habitat destruction. It's the most beautiful native lily in the west.
Dicentra spectabilis 'Goldheart'. This is a beautiful and vigorous selection of bleeding heart with golden yellow-green leaves.
Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin, northern small-flowered yellow lady's slipper. Looks almost exactly like the larger variety except much smaller. The pouch is the size of your thumbnail.
Alpine columbine, Aquilegia alpina. While columbines are supposed to be short-lived, I've now had this one for 4 years and it just gets better and better.

Cypripedium macranthos

This clone is from the Lake baikal area of siberia. It has a very large flower.

Paph Avalon Mist

A while back I posted a pic of Paph Pinocchio x primulinum. This is the same plant; I've confirmed that its actual name is Paph Avalon Mist (primulinum x Pinocchio). Had the parent's names been reversed as I had originally thought, the flowers would have been darker in color. The photo (due to lighting) makes it look creamy; it's actually a bright white with some cream near the opening. I'll try to get a better pic soon. This is the next flower to open in succession after the one I pictured earlier. It has at least 2 more coming! The form and color are both far superior on this flower to the one it had open when I bought it a few months ago.

Change in Phrag Culture

I've repotted all my Phrags except Grande into a mixture of 4 parts paph mix (fine bark, charcoal, perlite) to 1 part PRO-MIX HP. This mix drains well but retains moisture. The rockwool is too hard to get, and I found it was too chunky and had to fertilize too often. Most importantly, it MOLDED! I've never had a bark mix mold. The Grande will be repotted as soon as I can get more mix.

Cypripedium Ulla Silkens

I never did post photos of this class A lady's slipper hybrid when it opened! It's still blooming now but the flower is fading. While I suspect this is a first-bloom seedling, the flower is surprisingly large and the color is great! It also has a great rosy fragrance.

Misc. Garden Photos

Here we have Pulsatilla 'Papageno' (Pasque flower), a new addition to the garden. I had hoped for a white one, but oh well...
Here is Iris pumila (dwarf bearded iris). I bought four small divisions three years ago and the expanded very rapidly... last year I divided the clumps and sold a couple divisions. This year I have four divisions that I'm selling, plus four large clumps in the garden. It's a great plant and a reliable bloomer.
This is Arisaema triphyllum, Jack-in-the-pulpit. I have three of these; this is my only purple form.
This is Lilium pumilum, coral lily. Its many attractive flowers give off a nice fragrance.

A Walk in the Garden

Here we have Fritillaria meleagris (checkered fritillary or snake's head) in the meadow garden, Pulsatilla vulgaris (Pasque flower) in the rock garden, and Aquilegia jonesii (Jone's columbine) also in the r.g. The Aquilegia pic was taken a week ago. It's now finished flowering.

A Walk Around the Garden...

Here we have Lilium pumilum (coral lily) in the new sunny border, Epimedium x rubrum (red bishop's hat) in the woodland garden, Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose) in the shade border, Tulipa spp (hybrid tulip) in the meadow garden, and Muscari armeniacum (grape hyacinth), also in the meadow garden.

Cyps

Here are some photos of northern hemispheric temperate lady's slippers (Cypripediums). The first one is C. Ulla Silkens (flavum x reginae), which is in bud. The last one is C. acaule (pink lady's slipper), in flower. Both of these plants are in bud/flower a couple weeks early because they started into growth in a warm coldframe. The two in between are C. macranthos (from Siberia) and C. reginae (showy lady's slipper), in that order. The macranthos naturally starts into growth and flowers earlier than my other Cyps. It will flower in less than two weeks. The reginae is not supposed to start into growth until about 2 weks after other Cyps; this one was coldframe started. My other reginae are just peeking out of the soil. My C. pubescens are all starting to leaf out like the reginae shown here.