Paph dianthum
It has not been a good year for me so far, and the orchids have been much neglected - my wife has been unable to do anything at all in the house for some months now, and since losing the sight of one eye a few months ago I have had a series of operations to restore it, the last a few days ago. That was a rather bad experience - a couple of hours in the theatre, could not be properly anaethestised because I had to copoperate with the surgeon and follow commands, my eye being bathed with scorching iodine most of the time to avoid the possibility of infection whilst various instruments probed about doing this and that inside the eye; I had a couple of very pretty nurses to hold my hands and comfort me - they said, but since my eyes were covered up apart from access for the surgeons microsope thing they peer through wilst manipulating their tools, I had to take their word for it.
Sop tonight was the first time I had been in the greenhouse for a while, but I collected together half a dozen plants in flower to snap, and talk about.#
This is a seedling first flowering; I had two , from different sources, but I think the second is actually a subspecies (purpurata) of P.primulinum - certainly not another dianthum.
This pic shows the natural habit - unstaked and as nature intends , I suppose. Maybe the colour is rather clearer to my eyes than as shown here, but not a lot.
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Originally Posted by Halloamey
