Paphiopedilum

Very attractive deep flame to vini

Very much a bold, in your face, flower

Crossing two from our “Oxymoron” series has created a very attractive light colored flame

Yet another in the Oxymoron series.   This one showing good form and pleasing amounts of pink to compliment the spots

Another truly charming flower out of Friedrich von Hayek.  You have to love the fullness of the sepals

Don’t you just love that pink halo?

A wide range of colors including many flowers that are very dark like this and others that are considerably lighter, more in the colors you would expect from the parents

An AQ and seven quality awards including an FCC awarded in Florida.  Selected red tag plants are available as part of your qualifying wholesale order for $100 each.

An AQ and two AM awards to this cross and we are really looking forward to using its breeding potential, really tall stems

Fascinating cross, about half are wonderful green & white, the other half looks like the awarded flower.

Just stunning colors throughout the flowers

Gorgeous Pinks, what else is there to say

Lovely flames to vinis with elegant spots

An AQ to this cross.  We have several red tagged Selected plants that have bloomed with award quality flowers available for $50 each as part of your wholesale order.

We are making progress on red petals

One has to love the influence of venustum as a grandparent

Exquisite contrasts between the sepals and the petals & pouch

Gorgeous pale pinks with spots

Lovely pinks to flames

This is coloratum at its finest, love the pink halo on the dorsal sepal and just a hint of synsepal

Not only did hte first to bloom bloom in February, its award was given on Valentine’s Day eve.

Continuing our much appreciated “Oxymoron” series.  Abundance of attractive spots

Another very successful flame showing significant pink

Mostly wonderful flames, deep pinks with spots.  A few Red Tag selections are available and can be included in your wholesale order for $50 each

Some exquisitely dark, almost approaching black on the petals. Other’s show hints of red

Another fascinating result from crossing a Vini with a pink coloratum.  The flowers range from Vini, through flames to this different look.  Love the syncopal on the awarded one, it does help frame the pouch.

Great contrasts and some really nice coloraturas

Very nice flames but mostly shaping towards vini-colored.  Mostly pleasingly tall stems.

Were we on a role, three contrasts in a row, 80302, 80303 & 80304.  Each one getting better than the previous one

A really stunning contrast, and the coloraturas are quite delightful.  This is a resulting of crossing our “Contrasts” series with our “Oxymoron” series

Another stunning remake.  We had hopes that the awarded one would make it to an FCC but not to be.  One judge did score it 92 on the first go around but the sysnsepal is asymmetrical.  So how many points do you take off for that?

A remake of a very successful cross.  This time a large number of attractive green & whites are occurring.

This is the first of several crosses we have made to try to increase the supply of white Maudiae style.  The green and white from this cross are available as part of wholesale orders.  The boys is they will carry the white gene.  The ones that are showing white are available for $100 each as […]

A remake of a hybrid that was very well received the first time we made it.

Large vini to red flowers, tall stems

Another remarkable green & white.  This one has only been awarded to a customer, this is not the photograph of the awarded flower.  See the AOS Awards section for the awarded flower

Another version of our most awarded hybrid.  This time using pollen from a plant bought by one of our customers.

venustum is only 25% but does its influence show through.  There are great pouches and often times intriguing petals like these.  This flower was awarded in Shreveport LA August 24, 2019, the award is pending but this is a photograph taken by the Big Island award photographer before it was sent to the Shreveport Judging Center

Light colored flames and coloraturas.  We exhibited one of the first to bloom tomcat this award, we expect many more award quality out of this cross.

We love the clean different colors of this new hybrid.  Most of the flowers we have seen are very similar in color.

We have now made this cross at least 5 different times with different parents.  This time there were two AM’s.  We took back twelve the next judging and there we four more HCC’s and an AQ.  Even the coloraturums on this grex look spectacular.  We used an HCC for the photo, we will consider swapping […]

We exhibited three of the first six to bloom and all three were awarded AM’s!  Two were attractive pink flames, one with almost no spots and one heavily spotted.  We are displaying this vini as we know there is heavy prejudice in favor of vinis.

We achieved what we were breeding for, light color and large size.  A very free blooming hybrid that has bloomed very quickly from flask.

The colors are just astounding, love that dorsal sepal

Love this form, and the color is quite attractive too, but it does not hold as much appeal as the vinis, unfortunately.

We are seeing some really exciting dark red flowers

Three awards to this cross, all as cut flowers.  It really is a delightful, heavily spotted, flame to vini.

Great flame on a tall upright stem, you have to love all the spots!

Lovely light colored flowers, but about half of them are album.  We crossed a very light coloratum with an almost white green & white.  The flowers follow either one parent or the other.  There does not seen to be any that are a blend of both parents.

Very nice pink and green flowers with minimal spotting.  And for those of you who go to Paph Guild remember to cheer when Mrs Muir’s award slides are screened.  Don’t let her grumble about the length of the clonal name as she is want to do on some of our awards!

Love the down-swept wide petals on the awarded clone.  Seeing lots more color in other flowers and tall upright stems

Beautifully bold flowers  

Mostly very dark vinis on noticeably tall stems.  There are a few very attractive flames.  First one awarded 9/18/19 in So. Calif. at Santa Barbara

This is just one of the many colors that are contained in this hybrid. Some are way darker, others even lighter.  It is fun!

Don’t you just love the way venustum dominates but the color is so enhanced.  venustum is a grandparent on both sides.  The venustum influence makes it very easy to rebloom.

There is another Odette’s Moon award in our Awards section that shows the color potential of this grex.  These typically flower on strong upright unstaked stems.