Thanks Lorn and Joe
This is the 3rd flowering. Two buds first year (and I set a pod on it >>), five buds second (set two *cough* pods *cough* <<), 11 buds this year, and I cut the poor thing down to take it to a show! (Don't tell anyone I torture my babies!
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So it will be a while now until I know what it is capable of as a mature bulb with some decent reserves, but I'd say it's pretty resilient! Anything that survives my 'care' is pretty tough
I've scaled it too, and have a few young bulbs on the way. Some should make small stems next season. I managed to get a couple of seedlings between this and Hornback's Gold and I've put the pollen on L. leichtlinii this year in search of longer, sharper, darker pedicels... but I don't want to lose the purity of colour, flower form and foliage.
I agonised, but am glad now that I cut it. The response has been so positive that I'm going to register it
The Ivory Bells stem was really something. Amazing texture inside the flowers, and an overall air of something with orienpet blood, though it was benched as an aurelian - I still have no idea of the real background to it. If I get a chance I'll ask Doug Fielding where he obtained it. There are a couple of pictures that show the flower face in the untitled shots further down the page. One is below a shot of some potted orchids on the right side of screen and the other is a few rows below that beside a stem of L. leichtlinii (another stem I benched.)
