Florum 2008 will start on Saturday the 6th of September for a week. The private view will be 6pm to 9pm on the previous evening, Friday the 5th. If you could come, it would be wonderful.
One of my paintings at the show will be this.
Leptotes pohli tinocoi (Brasil, newly discovered species) which I bought at the RHS Orchid Show in March now has three flowers.
A book called “Lycaste, Ida, Anguloa, Essential Guide” is published. The author is Dr Henry Oakeley.
http://www.oakeleybooks.co.uk/
Because
1) these three genera are too big for me to keep and
2) I only have a Lycaste aromatica (though it was given by the author) and
3) it is written in English,
I first thought I don’t need this book. However, I found it with lots of nice photographs, both orchids and Peru, I changed my mind and obtained it. This book includes all species of these three genera.
A page with Lycaste aromatica
With a lot of shot of Peru (Machu Picchu for instance)
With Mr Arias of PeruFlora
It costs £50. It is quite reasonable as this contains loads of photographs. It weighs 3kg. You can order the book from the website above, but if you would like one, you could write to me as well.
The annual RHS Orchid Show commenced at 6:30pm on Friday 14th March with the private view, and lasted for 3 days. As I exhibited 8 of my orchid paintings from the Peruvian cloud forests, I went there early on Friday afternoon to hang the paintings, after which I took a look around the orchids among other exhibitor stalls. I purchased all the orchids I wanted before the private view actually started, which meant I could enjoy my time there without any worry.
The exhibitor next to me was Paul Chan, another member of the OSGB, who exhibited his beautiful orchid photographs. As many of you may recall, he won the photography competition at the December meeting last year.
Of course among the exhibitors was the Orchid Society of Great Britain, whose committee members and helpers produced a beautiful display again this year. Consequently there were lots of our members at the show, so it became a very enjoyable time.
I pre-ordered some orchids (3 genera, 11 species) from the PeruFlora who helped me a lot when I was in Peru two summers ago. The reason I bought so many orchids (to me) was because I managed to keep many Masdevallias for a year since last March, which I first thought difficult to grow. It made me feel a little more confident to keep these plants. Among the newly obtained orchids are:
1) Cattleya maxima: This species was actually first found by Ruiz & Pavón and was named Sobralia. Unfortunately it wasn’t published and about 50 years later the specimen went to Lindley who classified, named and published this orchid as Cattleya maxima. If it had been published by Ruiz & Pavón, then we would not have had a genus Cattleya now, which I think is very intriguing fact. (http://www.chadwickorchids.com/Cattleya/maxima.htm)
2) Masdevallia rima rima alba: I bought Masdevallia uniflora last year. It was the first orchid I saw in Peru, and it was the orchid which Ruiz & Pavón had found 200 years ago for the first time, and it was one of the orchids I painted. This Masd.rima rima alba is sort of white version of the Masd.uniflora. In Peru, the local Indian called Masd. uniflora as “rima-rima” in their language, Quechua.
3) Masdevallia lilacina: When I saw this name in the PeruFlora catalogue, I immediately decided to get one, as I had just seen the photograph of this in our president’s Power Point Presentation. Henry wrote, “Masdevallia lilacina is one of the jewels of the forests here” and the flowers are absolutely elegant.
I very much hope that the orchids will be able to survive the environment inside/outside my house and that I will one day be able to admire their beautiful flowers.
A Modern British Florilegium
The New York Sun
There was a review about the exhibition in New York and my name is included. You can click here, http://www.mayumihashi.com/blog/?p=535 or here (the article).
”Exceptionally delicate are the magnolia branches and flowers by Mayumi Hashi, who captures the buoyant gesture of leaves opening, wing-like, above a pale blossom. ”
And there, music again! It is fiesta time again!!!
Today, on the way back to Lima, we went into the restaurant at an elevation of 4125m again in order to have late breakfast. Whilst shopping there after breakfast, we could occasionally see people being on their way to the fiesta!
My eyes met theirs and they made a very very big bow from the waist to me. I raised my camera to ask if it was OK to take a photograph of them. Their answer was yes, so I flied out and took this picture. Thank you!
Cathuamayo is the town where the road from Paucartambo crosses with the major road to Huanuco. This is also a very small town, however, you can see the sign of “Internet” here as well.
When we passed this town yesterday, there was a festival. Today people are still playing music and dancing. The Peruvian people really seem to love festivals.
Hello!
Surrounded by the mountains, here is a lake. Several different species of waterfowls and animals there. Photographed with Saul the guide and Cesar the driver.
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