Cypripedium

Cypripedium Aki Pastel

(macranthos x pubescens)

This is one of the best and most vigorous parental combinations and Aki Pastel is one of the best of the new hybrids. It has large flowers, with an inflated lip and lovely spiralling petals.

By careful selection of parents and temperature control at pollination time, forms with especially lovely colouring can be produced. 'Pastel' has a lip of virtually white whilst the tepals are a soft apricot to pale red. There is an extra richness and fire added in the form of red spots and streaks. This is a strain and NOT a clone, so that there is variation. The illustration is typical, though not all are identical. Some are paler, some are darker.

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Cypripedium Andrewsii

(candidum x parviflorum)

A re-cross of the wild hybrid this has a white lip with reddish veins and burnished chestnut tepals, infused with yellow-brown. Very attractive and more easily grown than the irascible candidum with the vigour characteristic of parviflorum hybrids. The rhizomes show candidum influence in their thin roots and are more slender than other hybrids at the same age.

These are good sized plants of a hybrid which always makes slender roots. However as they do not contain flower buds we have to call them a year from flowering.

Cypripedium Dietrich

(kentuckiense x calceolus).

This combines the huge lip of the American parent with the intense colouring of the European plants, giving a beautifully proportioned cross with a large yellow lip and long, hanging, spirally-twisted, deep red tepals.

There is also a hint of the perfume of calceolus in this inspired cross first made by Werner Frosch in Germany and registered only in 2003. These are nice young rhizomes, not flowering sized but perhaps only a year from flowering.

Photograph © W. Frosch, with permission.

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Cypripedium Gabriela

(kentuckiense x fasciolatum)

Registered by Werner Frosch only in 2003 this is a hybrid with immense potential as it combines the two largest flowered species in the genus and they have a wonderful sympathetic colouring as well.

Both parents have large white or cream lips, and these combine their shapes to give a flask shaped creamy yellow lip which infuses to deeper yellow at the base. Both have long, large tepals of reddish-brown colourings. The kentuckiense used for the cross was a nice dark, well-coloured one, the fasciolatum was chosen for its splendid, long, dark sepals with plenty of maroon. The hybrid is half way between, lending a rich and sympathetic colour.

Vigorous and very hardy this has a bright future ahead of it. Cultivation is 'standard' with no foibles or quirks.

Picture © Werner Frosch, with permission.

Cypripedium Gisela

(macranthum x parviflorum)

Large, inflated lips with the size and shape of macranthos but a paler ground colour, streaked and infused purple. The tepals are the rich shade of a well-aged Rioja, with the characteristic twist of parviflorum, which really adds character and beauty. Robust. Leafy, half shade.

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Cypripedium Gisela Pastel

(macranthum x parviflorum)

By a careful selection it has been possible to raise a strain in which the yellow of the flower is greatly enhanced. There is a degree of variation but all are inclined to yellow and all have a lovely light fragrance.

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Cypripedium Hank Small

(parviflorum x henryi)

This combines the strong, garden-worthy characteristics of a parviflorum parent with the multi-flowered habit of henryi.

As the two plants are sympathetic in colouring the results are especially pleasing and some inherit the fragrance of parviflorum as well. They are showing excellent potential as a garden plant, although you have to remember that these are two smaller species, so the rhizomes are simply never as large as some crosses, that is natural. If you cross a Chihuahua with a Dachshund you do not get a Great Dane.

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Photograph © Werner Frosch, with permission.

Cypripedium henryi

This usually has two or three flowers per spike, with a very characteristic "head into the wind" poise. Each bloom has a small but broad, glossy yellow-green lip and pennant-shaped untwisted green tepals, which have a broad base.

One of the easiest species to grow and flower, and it increases readily when happy. They are good cultivated plants and are in prime condition, they are flowering sized but naturally are a touch smaller than some species.

Cypripedium Inge

(parviflorum x fasciolatum)

A wonderful cross, bringing together the huge flowers and large lip (the size of a hen's egg) of fasciolatum with all of the merits of parviflorum, which makes such a good and vigorous parent. In addition there are the rich colourings and perfume of parviflorum to anticipate in the offspring.

Registered by the cultivator: W. Frosch in 2003. This is a hardy (-13°F -25°C) terrestrial orchid for the garden, 30-50 cm tall, vigorous and readily grown.

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Cypripedium Ingrid

(parviflorum x cordigerum)

This has proven to be an excellent garden subject which melds the sympathetic colours of the parents to give a very vigorous plant with spiralled red-brown sepals and a very soft pastel primrose lip, the whole with a light fragrance. Good in the garden with the strong constitution that comes from having parviflorum as a parent.

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Large, strong, single-nosed plants with a flowering sized shoot and one or two smaller, non-flowering side shoots Large view
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Larger plants with two, flowering-sized noses. In some cases some smaller (non-flowering buds) may be present in addition to the 2 flowering size. Large view

Cypripedium japonicum

Rarely seen in cultivation, this has a pair of decorative, folded and pleated, leaves. The flower bud, set between the leaves, slowly and tantalisingly unfurls to give a pale pink flower with a pale pink, deeply cleft lip surrounded by pale yellow-green to pale green sepals and petals marked with tiny deeper pink spickles.

Related to C. formosanum, but different in the colour of its tepals, the "L" shape of its lip, the crimped and strongly grooved apex to the lip and the lack of the little apicule at the tip of the lip.

These are CITES certified, nursery-produced cultivated divisions imported from Japan in previous seasons and grown on here since.

Cypripedium kentuckiense

It is a particular delight to be able to offer this excellent plant as it is the best of all of the species from the USA.

This has very tall stems and a huge flower composed of a fat white or pale yellow lip surrounded by broad, but elongated, tepals which vary from a dark sienna through to a warm red-brown. In all of its slightly differing colour forms it is superb, with large flowers and a willingness to grow.

This does well in a well-drained, even sandy, soil (not fine dune sand but rather a river type sand) with low humus levels but some surface leaf litter.

An excellent plant but this still scarce and is never a cheap species. These are top quality, certified plants totally artificially propagated.

Cypripedium Michael Pastel

(macranthos x henryi)

A cross between the richly coloured macranthos and the multi-flowered and eminently ‘growable’ henryi.

Stems from 25-55cm tall carry one, sometimes more, flowers which in this strain have a pale lip and ground colour. The tepals with a darker apex and superb jade coloured petals.

This is a very hardy cross having taken -13°F (-25C) in continental Europe and it will, in time, become a very valuable new addition to the range of garden hybrids.

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Near flowering size. Large view

Cypripedium parviflorum

This is propagated from a geographical form from the northern end of the range of the species.

It has smaller growths than the more southerly forms, each with up to three, smaller, highly fragrant flowers of a deeper and richer colouring. This equates to a pure deep chrome yellow lip and mahogany, twisted, curling petals. This is true, distinctive pure parviflorum - one of the best forms of it that there is.

Cypripedium Paul

parviflorum x franchetii

Large, inflated white or primrose, pouch-lips sprinkled and finely lined with cherry red around the mouth. The cherry red is repeated, as stripes and staining over the white / primrose ground of the tepals.

The overall effect is superb in this new hybrid, which again inherits the splendid parviflorum constitution.

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