Lehua Orchids | Artists in Orchid Creation
Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, Lycaste Breeders & Hybridizers
We have four different Paphiopedilum prices groups:
Paphiopedilum Price Point is mainly the mottled leaf (maudiae) type but does include some other intriguing things including some economical multifloral and sequential and even some fairrieanum hybrids; Paphiopedilum Select includes some different novelty type breeding: Paphiopedilum Premium has mostly yellow/green complex and some multifloral of different breeding; Paphiopedilum Premium Plus includes red and spot complex and traditional multifloral.
4” square pot
If you simply order a selection of Price Point Paphiopedilums and let us choose, then the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $12.00, Alaska $13.00
You are welcome to select from the following plants, in which case the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $13.00, Alaska $14.00
4” square pot
If you simply order a selection of Price Point Paphiopedliums and let us choose, then the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $12.00
You are welcome to select from the following plants, in which case the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $13.00
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
A remake using different a different pollen parent from our previous AQ. Gorgeous coloraturums, even. This remake has earned the highest point total of any of he Ghostly Contrasts and looks far superior to any in the AQ that was awarded to the previous version.
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 still working on this posting. Our notes show one has been awarded but we are having difficulty tracking it down. We hope it was in Southern California where they are playing catchup on award processing. It really is a delightful, heavily spotted, flame to vini.
Two flowers exhibited, two 81 point AM’s. We love this one with the spots in the dorsal. We look forward to enhancing the spots.
Great flame on a tall upright stem, you have to love all the spots!
Stunning flowers like this one on a tall, upright, strong stem.
work in progress posting
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.
We just got one from the first time we made this cross awarded in Toronto as a cut flower. But we really do prefer this remake. We expect to see a lot more flower like this one.
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
There are already several HCC’s to this grex, but we could not resist taking this flower in for consideration. This cross is generating a lot of flowers with this appearance.
Fascinating hybrid, only one quarter venustum but each one to flower so far has flowered as an improved venustum. This one with a delightfully tall stem and following the album form. It went to work right away with green and white Maudiae style flowers.
A wonderfully charming flame to vini.
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
We are showing the 83 point award just because, but we honestly prefer the look of our 78 point HCC to this grex. We should have the photos up in our awards section soon so that you may compare and decide yourselves.
Contrasts of a different color. This time the spots are beginning to coalesce and provide a distinctive contrast to the white with pale green stripes sepals.
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.
Work in progress posting
Work in progress posting
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.
venustum on both sides as a grandparent. Lovely flowers, very easy to grow and flower with great foliage. This hybrid attracted the attention of the CSA judges at Santa Barbara Spring 2018, but as far as we know the award has not been published. Photograph to follow.
We don’t usually remake something we have done before, but when we saw the quality of the sukhakulii album it just cried out to us to recreate our enormously popular Saiun album. We are so glad we did. We are even seeing some with two well presented flowers on one stem.
An attempt to fill in the puka’s (that’s Hawaiian for holes) in the almost black overly on the petals of Macabre Contrasts. It has done that and added a slight olive complexion to the contrasting sepals, interesting.
Big flowers with typically really good form
Our attempt to eliminate the red/tan/cordovan overlay on a light coloratum. The result is 50% coloratum and 50% green & white. We can’t wait to see what a selfing of either result will bring! Already an AM to this hybrid, the green & white etals are so much larger.
Another of our attempts to eliminate the red/tan/cordovan overlay in the pouch of a pale coloratum. Again the bizarre result, half coloratum, half green & white, fascinating. We can’t wait to see what a selfing will bring, will it eliminate the overlay?
We keep thinking we have come to the end of the Oxymoron Series but we keep finding them. This time it is a little different bringing in venustum as a grandparent. That makes it a lot freer blooming, adds substance and patterning to the leaves, and makes it just a joy to have around although […]
What a green, just a little white showing in the dorsal. This is a very large green & white with most of the pure color of a wardii album. It really has to meet our almost all green Saiun album 40803!
Another way to approach red, this one is beginning to show red promise. Next time onto a lighter colored vini. The awarded clone is a pure vini and is displayed in our awards section
The flowers are so delightful we keep saying to ourselves there is an AQ in this cross. The problem is we have yet to have 12 flower at the same time. We gave up on getting twelve and took in Macabre Flutter ‘Slipper Zone Vertically Challenged’. Even with a very short stem and no where […]
An immediate winner, FCC in Nation’s Capital and and three HCC’s in Hilo. What a stunning green & white. Look at the width of the petals on this HCC.
Already one AM to this cross in the Chicago region. We are charmed by the gentle pinks we are seeing with complimentary spots on the petals.
We crossed a pale coloratum with a very light green & white to see if we could take the color overlay out of the pouch while still retaining color in the spots. The result is interesting, half coloratum and half green & white, nothing in the middle. The real benefit is the green & white […]
This clearly favor lawrenceanum but is a much more defined flower with some great synsepals in evidence.
Did we ever get pink this time!
Just a lovely example of pale breeding, light flowers with gentle hints of pink and complimenting spots.
Beautiful pinks surrounding a green center with a splash of spots accenting the petals.
Big spotted coloratum, what else is there to say, except that the sepals really do make the show. There is also an HCC that should soon be added to the awards section.
We made this cross for a third time. The flower photographed is typical of White Promise. For the full potential please see our awards section. The few that have bloomed as of 8/2018 for this remake have all been green & white, but clearly carry the white gene.
Delightfully overlaid with pink and a lot of spots highlighting the petals
Another in our series trying to create a flower that is green in the center and pink around the outside with little or no spotting. This was awarded at Paph Guild in January 2019 (‘Slipper Zone’s Leilani AM/AOS 82 points).
This is showing some of the more spectacular results from Jewel Green. These have all gone to work in our maternity ward without going to judging – next year, we hope.
We are getting there in our efforts to have pink with a green center and no spots. The ones we have seen bloom do need more pink into the dorsal but still a charming flower.
Continuing our search for the contrasting petals and sepals this brings a new twist to contrast scene with much more exposure of the green underlay on the petals.
A truly nice green & white memorializing a gracious Michigan lady. One has been awarded but not to us so we do not have the award photo. We have seen several award quality flowers still on our benches.
A delightful blend of two pinks. We expect to see many with very few spots but so far, the first to bloom are showing attractive spotting and striking pink into the dorsal sepal.
6 awards and an AQ to this hybrid, so we do not have a lot left. Everyone who knew about them grabbed them very quickly. The consistency is great. Our apologies if you see the name spelled with two l’s, Graham can still lapse into his native British English.
Monthra? google it, it does relate to moths in a bizarre sort of way. Lovely gentle hints of pink on a spotted flower.
Like tall stems? That is a characteristic of both parents. Flowers are pink flames. Photograph to follow.
One of our classic green & whites crossed with one of our Maudiae shaped whites. Mostly light green & white but with an interesting white looking twist.
Lots of spots, large ones very wide petals over a pale green background. At last one was awarded in Hilo so we have a photo. Can you imagine what this would look like if we can enhance the spots in the dorsal? We are working on it.
Just a gorgeous delicate pink overlay with complimentary spots.
The correct American spelling at last. Our apologies if you come across it spelled with two l’s. Graham still occasionally reverts to British English. This is not helped having the registrations take place in the U.K. Just look at those colors and the way they are presented.
One of our attempts to get white petals with dark spots. We used one of our early whites with a light coloratum. We love the result. So far we are seeing only pale coloratums but will not be surprised of there are some green & white flowers.
Luna Shadow is creating some dynamic colors and great form. Here it is with our awarded Mr Wonderful. What bold and diverse colors, the green just leaps out at you!
We said below that we had come to the end of the Oxymoron Series, but here’s another one. Actually this one is a grandchild of Wood Wonder so technically it is not an Oxymoron Series, but we probably drew a blank thinking up another name. As a grandchild one is showing lighter colors than the […]
Another beautiful flame full of spots on the petals.
Hawaiian Illusion just has many shades that adding Kiwi Charm just makes the colors explode.
On the Kiwi side the original primary hybrid was two small flowers, hennisianum and acmodontom. We have gradually increased the size while keeping many of the delightful features of the original Kiwi Ingenuity, and adding a rainbow of colors. Photograph coming.
Mostly deep vinicolors but there are a few intriguing coloratums and flames.
The pod parent is a great dark flame on a tall stem and the pollen parent is even darker also on a tall stem. Beautiful vinicolors with character and tall stems. Photograph to follow.
We went back to basics by going back to Love Song. Years ago we had over 1000 Love Songs and 5 or 6 of them came out dark. We have all enjoyed seeing the results of hybridizing with these dark Love Songs. We are now intrigued by the prospect of putting them with some of […]
Seeing lots of pink petals with very little spotting and some pink showing in the dorsal sepal. The awarded flower is just stunning, the photograph is good but the flower itself does take your breath away.
We think this is the fourth time we are listing this cross, now with a different pollen parent. And we think there is a fifth cross in the 2″ section! each time this comes out just beautifully.
Pink dominates with just an attractive basal hint of green
Great award quality flowers from this cross. There are two HCC’s as well and one we have held back from judging. if it corrects its stem issue and flowers the same as this year with the right team it is possible.
We are seeing flowers that are a deep pink on tall upright stems. Photograh to follow.
We are seeing nothing but very large coloratums heavily overlaid with pink and lots of spots. The pollen parent is barely evident.
Named for the orchid enabling husband of our friend Sarah Waddoups this is a free blooming very reliable bloomer in August and September each year (it is following the superbiens blooming habit). Putting a venustum hybrid into the mix only makes it that much easier to re-bloom.
We are thrilled to be able to bring this type of breeding to you at this price
4” square pot
If you simply order a selection of Price Point Paphiopedilums and let us choose, then the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $12.00
You are welcome to select from the following plants, in which case the price is:
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $13.00
We thought this could look nice so we crossed a very light colored green & white Maudiae style with an album charlesworthii. Guess what, not a one is green! We will self one of these color forms in the hope that in a few years we will have some green charlesworthii hybrids. We need to […]
A really special charlesworthii hybrid. Tall stems, lots of vinis and quite a long time before the dorsal starts to reflex, and we have seen some that do not reflex. Two have been awarded, in Sacramento and in Oakland.
A second generation charlesworthii hybrid and when the flowers do not reflex they are sensational. Let’s hope this will breed on. It is intersectional but it has bred on once to get to this point.
4” square pots
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $14.00, Alaska $15.00
4” square pots
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $14.00, Alaska $15.00
One of the few hybrids we have made twice. Deperle is normally white. We make it using the vinicolor form of delenatii and the purpurascens form of primulinum. The result is this delightful pink flower that will carry three on the second bloom. We are offering these as first bloom seedlings that came out of […]
Again, from our late friend Sandy Song’s breeding. Here she sibling crossed to very nice examples of this petite hybrid (helenae x Pacific Shamrock) which is the tiny species crossed a very nice autumnal shade bulldog. these came out of the flask December 2016. We are just seeing the first bud develop now.
Bred by our late friend Sandy Song. This was one of her attempts at “teacup” breeding. Judging by the leaf size on these multiple growth plants she has succeeded in getting the small size. However we have yet to see one bloom.
The late Sandra Song’s remake of this very popular primary hybrid (we sold out of our own remake very quickly). Photograph to follow.
We could not believe that this primary hybrid had not been made. We are delighted with the result. However, interestingly we made the same cross using lowii as the pod parent. We have a lot but you will probably never see them as almost all of them with lowii as the pod parent are failing […]
A very appealing mid-size flower that has a great sequential habit on a tall, upright stem.
4” square pots
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $14.00, Alaska $15.00
The first of the next generation of spicerianum from Lehua Orchids. We bred these with a particular emphasis on stem length and height. We are hopeful the first will bloom this fall. And on the subsequent blooming we expect these to produce more than one flower.
A selfing of a lighter colored flower, although there does appear to have been a dark form in the background as we are seeing one or two with much darker leaves.
We are so happy to be able to offer this sequential species from the Cochlopetalum section. Our parent, as the name implies has a great pouch. As of July 2019 these appear to be approaching blooming size now that they are two years out of flask.
This the type and this particular group shows great color intensity. These began flowering about 18 months out of flask and we have lots that are blooming size. We often say venustum is a mealybug magnet but so far (at the risk of jinxing ourselves) we have not seen any on this group. Even so […]
We were very fortunate to acquire a good number of flasks of this delightful species and these plants have just reached blooming size as of July 2019.
We are thrilled to make these available. We tried for years to self the one we have and it refused. It also failed to hybridize. But at last we have plenty of the species. These are two and a half years out of flask as of June, 2019. We expect the largest to initiate flowers […]
We crossed our awarded flower with an album form in the hopes of increasing the stem length of the albums. We have seen many bloom and are happy to report the stem is improved over the album and shorter than the type. None has flowered album so we plan to self this to try to […]
We are delighted to have this available again. These flower with the deepest intensity of purple on the petals we have ever seen in this species, and in most cases the flower shows a beautifully flat petal. On the first bloom we find the stem to be a little short but expect the stem to […]
These are over three years out of flask (as of June 2019) and they keep flying out of here in the hands of visiting wholesale customers, so we thought we should make them available to everyone. We are just beginning to see second growths initiate.
These are three and a half years out of flask and are beginning to initiate a new growth which we hope will be a flowering growth. To date we have seen none in flower on the first two growths. The leaves are smaller than the villosum type we have but the type are over 7 […]
A lovely selfing of our album larenceanum. It is beautiful in its own right but is also producing some spectacular offspring (see Spring Starlight in our Price Point section. It has been awarded an AQ). Limited quantities remain.
CAUTION we bought these flasks from the Perners (Hengduan Mountains Biotechnology) and have no reason to doubt that there is a mislabel. However our flowers look nothing like the CBR/AOS photograph. Our local judges have refused to judge it twice so we have not been able to send it to the Species Identification Task Force […]
We have very few of this delightful miniature species. Form looks very similar to spicerianum but the color is predominantly brown.
Lovely example of the album form of this petite species. Limited quantities remain.
Synonym callosum var. thailandense. Great multifloral, yes it is, species. The first bloom usually shows two flowers but the parent has had consistently three and sometimes four flowers. Repotted into 4″ pots Spring 2015. Here is a picture of the parent.
At last we can list these, they reached flowering size last season 5 years out of flask. A very nice example of the species.
We sibling crossed two carrying the same album parent. We did get a number of fma alboviride that we have kept to try to self. We did not get the statistical 25% presumably because the album form is weaker and the seedling would have been culled in the growing cycles. Limited quantities of the type […]
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $16.00, Alaska $17
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $16.00
We found the pod parent in the hands of Yoko Fisher (Jerry’s wife) having her photograph taken with it so she could show the size in comparison with her face. The flower is huge and we put it with our green Tomatillo. We ae seeing some intriguingly large greens and yellows.
Another in our Greek underworld theme we crossed the delightful Hellas which is just like having a new canvas to work with with our very green Emerald Lake, great autumnal shades.
Hellas just is a lovely flower to work with. It is bringing lovely autumnal shades to a classic yellow bulldog.
Mele, Hawaiian for merry (we all remember Bing Crosby don’t we, Mele Kalikimaka, Hawaiian for Merry Christmas). For this hybrid we took a saucer sized yellow Mele Star and were successful using it with a green Hellyer Lovely large flowers many tending to shades of green.
Both parents are nice greens. We are seeing some very exciting flowers with the ripples of the pod parent giving great character to the flowers.
A delightful combination of four sections; Paphiopedilum, Cochlopetalum, Brachypetalum and Parvisepalum. We are surprised it even exists let alone in quantity and does not produce any crippled flowers. The challenge will now be to work with this smaller round bulldog flower and see if it will breed on. Note of caution – do not confuse […]
4” square or 5″ round pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $20.00, Alaska $21.00
Just 2 years out of flask as of August 2019. We are listing them because the largest look like they will bloom this year. We do not normally remake something, let alone something someone else has made. Imagine our surprise the we found this had been made originally in 1994.
We are seeing both red and spotted bulldogs
It is great to be able to bring Startler back into breeding. It has not been used for 15 years. It is just too pure a red to leave out of a program.
Beaten to the registration by our neighbor. What can we say, other than we both bought from Terry at the Orchid Zone and we have both produced fine reds and spots.
Crossing some of tehbest breeding from Hillsview Gardens and the Orchid Zone (when Terry was doing the breeding) has produced the result you would expect and we were hoping for – great reds and bold spots.
A neat smaller red/spot created from some older standards.
Those of you familiar with our work with Maudiae style will be asking yourselves what isnthe name Odette doing here in the bulldog section. We added Odette’s Spell to Magic Moment to create one of the parents of this bulldog shaped flower. It has produced more offspring than we expected from this inter-sectional.
Place marker entry, details to follow
We bought a couple of flasks from Hillsview Gardens to find one of two flowers for us to work with. The rest are now available, many have not previously bloomed.
A great bulldog red that is interestingly producing some flowers with spots.
We we’re thrilled tp find a few during bench clearing time. All of you who were told we were out, heads up!
Just a handful of these left. Wew were surprised to find a few when we cleaned through the bench.
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $20.00
We remade this roth hybrid for one very simple reason, we dearly love Iantha Stage (roth x sukhakulii) and often wondered what (roth x wardii) would look like. We could never find one so the next option was the remake. These are in 4″ pots and look to be about a year away from blooming […]
As of July 2019 these are 3-1/2 years out of flask and yes, the first did bloom (but of course we forget to photograph it). We used an almost album Temptation with the album form of haynaldianum but the first to bloom had colors all over the place. We really are excited about seeing more bloom. […]
Another of our compact growing multiflorals that have been very popular with visitors so we have very few left. These are in 4″ pots.
HEADS UP – ALERT. These came to us as seedlings from the greenhouse of our late friend Sandy Song. The first to bloom was a perfectly lovely four flower Prince Edward of York (remind you of the Orchid Zone in the late 90’s?). Sandy was an attorney with a pension for multiflorals and teacups but […]
Not to many of these compact growing multiflorals. They keep getting bought by visitors to the greenhouses. The one we had awarded flowered with 4 the first year and followed that with 5 the year we exhibited it.
We could not resist remaking this cross using what was at the time our recently awarded parishii and a perfectly lovely philipppinense. We do not have many.
We bred this to try to introduce a different look, and we achieved it. Some are yellow following Judge Philip, some are more towards purple thanks to parishii. The form is also different, some clearly following one parent, others the other parent. And for those of you who are curious about the name, Llandaff is […]
What’s a Lo’ihi we can hear you asking. Well it’s the new volcano erupting off the Big Island that will eventually form a new island or a major extension to the Big island. So why name it for something we’ll never see for probably millions of years? So Graham can remember the name, that’s why! […]
We thought we were almost out, but cleaning thru the bench in July 2019 we found enough to merit a listing, even though the quantity is limited. A delightful multi with either yellow or green flowers.
‘Tall Fella’ is probably the finest lowii we have seen that has not been awarded. It regularly blooms with 6 or 7 flowers on a very tall stem, great presentation with lovely, large, round paddles that have great depth and intensity of color. Its offspring look like they are following suit.