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| Cypripedium tibeticum |
Harry had warned us that we'd probably be too late for ladyslippers in Tibet. We were all delighted that he was (for just this once) wrong! We stumbled on these when searching for
Meconopsis Baileyi on the slopes of Serkhyem La. We didn't see this dark one (there turned out to be several scattered n the wooded slope. Last year I saw its cousin a few times in Yunnan (the more purple
C. macranthum). A thrill to add yet another ladyslipper to one's life list.
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| Cypripedium tibeticum |
The flower is truly startling...singly or
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| Cypripedium tibeticum |
When we noticed this colony with three...
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| Cypripedium guttatum |
Dianne Barrie, from Melbourne, spotted from the road. I've seen thisn in a garden in Anchorage, and more recently in a garden in Chicago. But neither could compare to seeing this little army in the wild!
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| Cypripedium guttatum |
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| Ponenorchis chusua |
There are no en of orchids in the meadows, woods and bogs. One of the commonest of these is this variable little sprite we saw again and again--here in a wet meadow with primulas at Guza La
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| Ponenorchis chusua |
And the same one on a dry bank on the way to Lake Tianchi in Yunnan. Now if only we could find these in nurseries!
Ohh be still my heart. What beauties.
ReplyDeleteAll fabulous, what a trip it must have been! It will probably take you a while to sort out all your impressions. But the pictures you've been posting have been truly wonderful.
ReplyDeleteSomeday I may try to grow Cypripedium tibeticum. The Cypripedium guttatum seedlings I purchased this spring have survived 96 degrees F (105 to 110 degrees F feels like temperature) in dappled shade with plenty of water today. They don't seem to be as sensitive to warm temperatures as people have reported.
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