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 $15.00
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 $15.00, Alaska $18.00
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 $15.00
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
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.
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!
Stunning flowers like this one on a tall, upright, strong stem.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 […]
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Monthra? google it, it does relate to moths in a bizarre sort of way. Lovely gentle hints of pink on a spotted flower.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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, Alaska $15.00
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 $15.00, Alaska $18.00
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 $15.00, Alaska $18.00
4” square pots
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $15.00, Alaska $18.00
One of the few hybrids we have deliberately 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 or even four flowers on the second bloom.
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 […]
4” square pots
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $15.00, Alaska $18.00
The first of the next generation of spicerianum from Lehua Orchids. We bred these with a particular emphasis on stem length and height.
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. The photo shows a first bloom seedling with the same great pouch.
This is the type and this particular group shows great color intensity, especially in the venation on the pouch, hence the side view.
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 […]
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.
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.
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $18.00, Alaska $21.00
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $18.00, Alaska $21.00
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.
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $18.00, Alaska $21.00
A delightful combination of four sections; Paphiopedilum, Cochlopetalum, Brachypetalum and Parvisepalum. We are surprised it even exists let alone in quantity and even more surprised it 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 […]
4” square or 5″ round pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $21.00, Alaska $24.00
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $21.00, Alaska $24.00
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.
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.
Just a handful of these left. Wew were surprised to find a few when we cleaned through the bench.
4” square pot or 5″ square or round pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $21.00, Alaska $24.00
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 […]
We used an almost album Temptation with the album form of haynaldianum but colors can vary. This version is albinistic, some have more color. 4″ pots.
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 […]
4” square pot
In bud delivered in the US (except Alaska) in-pot $21.00, Alaska $24.00
We selfed a delightful type example we bought from the Orchid Zone. Obviously Terry has crossed a type and an album. You cannot tell which you have until the the bud initiates. Both forms are producing some exceptional flowers.