Phrag Don Wimber

[Dorsetman]

This plant has been in S/H for maybe 18 moths, using baked clay pebbles - sold under various names - I think these were Hortag or something like that. Now growing quite nicely, with two new growths just starting this side, and one near FS on the other side. A sometimes branching spike, could have 5, 6,7 or even more flowers eventually, but never many together - unless it is a big old and magnificently grown plant such as those which the Eric Young Foundation exhibit at major shows, when they manage to have a lot of flowers out all at the same time . Don Wimber was of course their scientific chap, did work on creating tetraploids, and overcoming interspecific fertility barriers for them.
A nice clean flower, and a good example of a P.besseae hybrid IMHO.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Great looking phrag orchid, Geoff! I have this one also but I don't think it is blooming currently. I'll have to check when I get home from Chicago.

Cheers,
BD

[Orkala]

Very beautiful. Love that soft red color.

[pavel]

Always a lovely phrag to see. Like the vast majority of phrags, however, far too large a grower for me. Nice photos too, Geoff.

[Halloamey]

Oooh gorgeous ! How big is the flower?

[Dorsetman]

Oooh gorgeous ! How big is the flower?

I guess 13cm.

[catttan]

What a lovely phrag!

[wonderlen]

Nice Don Wimber are hard to find. Its regular or 3N?? or 4N??

[Dorsetman]

Nice Don Wimber are hard to find. Its regular or 3N?? or 4N??

Pass - don't know.

As I expect you know, the EYF has done a great deal of Phrag breeding, . They like to flower all their seedlings: they do not sell commercially in the ordinary sense of the word at all , but what they do, is divide the keepers from the don't wants, and then they call in a dealer and say, you can have the plants on this bench for so many pounds sterling. No-one ever refuses , they are priced very competitively, all first class plants - just ones they do not want for their own displays or as breeding plants. And so the UK dealers will have them in their sales lists/plant tables , and that is where most of my phrags came from. But extra info , apart from the name, is not supplied..

[tucker85]

Beautiful and elegant!