{"id":10599,"date":"2010-04-12T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:48:26","slug":"pleione-irazu-mallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/pleione-irazu-mallard\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleione Orchid  &#8216;Irazu Mallard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457878395543465554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DAILYawesomebrn-10.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 81px; width: 400px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459072154582419618\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pleione.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; width: 400px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nPleione &#8216;Irazu Mallard&#8217;<br \/>\nTodays flower is a precious bulbous Orchid that is semi-hardy, and one that spends half of it&#8217;s life dormant. The Pleione is an addictive Orchid species in a genus which is already rather addictive. The greatest challenge is finding Pleione bulbs ( most of mine have come from trips to Japan, and from a grower in Vancouver, Washington, Burnt Bridge Creek Nursery. There are very few collectors growing these beautiful orchids today in North America. The bulbs are potted in a loose mixture of leaf fiber, charcoal and wood chips along with some sphagnum. I grow mine in small Japanese pots, with either one bulb per pot with the bulb sitting on the surface of the soil mixture, or in a pan with many bulbs. My small collection grows and shrinks each year, but the first Pleione to bloom, breaking it&#8217;s dormancy with a huge bud in relation to the bulb size, is this one every spring.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459216703518743314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pleione3.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; width: 400px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459216696705809570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pleione2.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; width: 266px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleione &#8216;Irazu Mallard&#8217; Todays flower is a precious bulbous Orchid that is semi-hardy, and one that spends half of it&#8217;s life dormant. 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