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Old 04-11-2009, 08:37 PM
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there is a cute story that goes with this paph insigne.
the winnipeg conservatory holds its annual plant sale every year on mothersday.
it.s been our custom to ge each year to the sale and then have breakfast or lunch afterwards.
you have to come early to get the prized plants from tropicals to garden plants. its set up in a big tent and the weather is always cold and misserable.
there is a long lineup and people all carry cardboard boxes for their hoped fornew aquisitions, but mostly to use as a headcover in the misserable wet and rainy weather.
once they let us in, there is a big pushing and shoving to gat to the plants.
wel 14 yrs ago; by the time we managed to get inside, not too much was left over for the pickings. so as not to leave empty handed i grabbed a spiderplant which somehow survived the melee..
it was just barely above freezing but we got it home.
after a few weeks i realized that this was no ordinairy spiderplant; as it had some funny thing portruding from between the leaves.
so my surprise it was a ladyslipper. paph insigne.
this was before computers for us so i grabbed every book from the local library about orchids.
needless to say that was i slipped deep into orchid delerium and havent been cured since.
i have managed to torture many an orchid to a slow but sure death over the years, but this paph refused to follow the others no matter what i threw at it.
i still have it and many divisions from it. well that was my little story.
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Old 04-11-2009, 08:50 PM
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Very nice, I can't get these or phrags to grow. In my case it is a very swift demise of the plant. I love the looks of the flowers. The background story of the plant is cute too.
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Old 04-11-2009, 08:54 PM
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they like it coolish and bright.
i grow them in s/h and i put some limestone gravel in the hydroton.
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Old 04-12-2009, 06:47 AM
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Wow, great story and great Paph
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Old 04-12-2009, 07:38 AM
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Isn't it funny how a chance happening can change our lives? What a keepsake and what great growing. How about the spiderplant? Still have that?

Bill
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Old 04-12-2009, 09:48 AM
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Very pretty, thank you!
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Old 04-12-2009, 10:53 PM
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Bill , the spiderplant WAS actually a paph insigne!
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Old 04-13-2009, 06:59 AM
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LMAO!!! Snow you kill me
I LOVE this one
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Old 04-13-2009, 10:11 AM
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Super 'spider plant', Snow. Mine doesn't look anything like yours. LOL

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Old 04-13-2009, 11:55 PM
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well guess what?
i,ve been living a lie for 14 years
i found out that my insigne is actually a paph gratrixiaunum. oh well they look almost identical.
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