New 2019 Stanhopea flowering season

Our new stanhopea flowering season here fully started now and once again I am surrounded by beautiful stanhopea’s with their flamboyant and mysterious flowers and textures and colors and heavenly scents.

 Every flowering season is different and I am hopping to see many of my plants in flower, to great and old favorites as well as welcome new for me species, varieties and crosses. My personal collection of stanhopea’s steadily increasing and there is always hope to see new for me flowering stanhopea and to share it’s beauty here in this blog with all friends of stanhopea orchids around the world.

Stanhioea impressa

Stanhopea Mem Paul Allen

Stanhopea shuttleworthii - Libano clone

New stanhopea flowering season started.

Here we are right in the middle of new stanhopea flowering season now. Many of my orchids have flower spikes bringing anticipation of seeing beautiful and majestic flowers soon. Every flowering season is different and brings a lot of surprises - colours, scents, textures. Some of the early flowering stanhopea’s already in bloom and it’s so nice seeing them again in all their glory. 

Here are the plants that flowered first this season - 

Stanhopea Mem Paul Allen1

Stanhopea Mem Paul Allen 2

Stanhopea Great Expectations 1

Stanhopea Great Expectations 2

Syanhopea Bellarensis x Inodora 1

Stanhopea Bellarensis x Inodora 2

New stanhopea's flowering season started

We are right in the middle of stanhopea flowering season here and all of my stanhopea plants busy with developing new flower spikes and stunning blooms. It's great anticipation time, waiting to see some old-favourites that been with me many years as well as discovering new to me varieties and species. My own collection expanding all the time and I also have some plants that been with me for a number of years yet not flowered, playing a waiting game, testing my patiennce and endurance. The other day I've spotted flower spikes on a few of them and looking forward seeing them and enjoying their beauty and hopefully to feature them in this blog.

Our weather is very temperamental and unsettled at the moment - hot humid days followed by rains and storms with themperatures up and down all the time and it's a challenge to keep my plants in optimum condition and to protect the precious blooms, but then each flowering season is unique and it's a special satisfaction to see them all flowering to perfection.

Here is some of my stanhopea's that flowering right now:

Stanhopea frymirei s self

Stanhopea Mem Paul Allen

Stanhopea Wetley Secret

Stanhopea Tigrina

Stanhopea Memoria Paul Allen

This handsome stanhopea first one to flower this season for me and its stanhopea Memoria Paul Allen, beautiful cross of stanhopea ecornuta x tigrina.

It was created and registered by W.W.Goodale Moir, well known Hawaiian orchid hybridizer and pioneer in intergeneric hybrids in late 1960,s and to this day stanhopea Memoria Paul Allen reminds one of the beautiful and desired stanhopea for any collector of these stunning orchids.

This cross is loved by stanhopea lovers all over the world for its dramatic, eye-catching flowers, impressive colors of blooms and dazzling, heavenly scent.

It’s quite generous cross in terms of developing many flower spikes, this season my plant developed five flower spikes and the one in the picture is the first to flower. I am looking forward to extended flowering period from this plant.

Each flower spike develops two large sculptured blooms of white/yellow middle color with many dark pink spots and blotches. The scent is rather complicated, layered with initial strong smell of vanilla and then herbal and spicy undertones. The flowers themselves have this fused middle and very special appearance, showing both of its parents splendidly.

Stanhopea Mem Paul Allen is another special stanhopea to love and to admire for any stanhopea collector.