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SVO 11045           NEW 
(Lc. Lake Tahoe 'Blue Lake' HCC/AOS x Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS)
Lake Tahoe (Lc. Floralia's Azul x L. sincorana) has been a good grower and bloomer. It came from Alan Koch's breeding at Gold Country Orchids. We were lucky to see several in flower while visiting his nursery. I picked out this one and it went on to receive an AOS award. Its flowers are flat, well rounded, and have good color. Lc. Lake Tahoe flowers twice a year. Lc. Mini Blue Star (Cornelia x Mini Purple) surprised me with the quality of the flowers. They have excellent shape, color and size. This cross is an obvious pairing. By combining exceptional parents we raise the bar on the current standard in Coerulea mini-Catt breeding. Expect large, flat, well rounded, coerulea flowers with dark blues lips from small plants…outstanding!
3” pots $18

Lc. Lake Tahoe 'Blue Lake' HCC/AOS	Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS

SVO 11103     
Lc. Mishima Beauty (L. anceps f. coerulea 'NTTOS Winner' x C. Interglossa f. coerulea 'SVO')
This L. anceps coerulea flared hybrid is a first for us! The parent anceps has superb flower shape and color. The Interglossa parent (C. intermedia f. aquinii, coerulea x C. loddigesii) has dark coerulea flares on the petals. These will be hardy plants, growing well outside in frost free areas. We are expecting 5-7 flowers on long arching stems. We are anticipating coerulea colored flowers with many exhibiting the desirable dark coerulea flaring. You will see all the charm of L. anceps with exotic coloring.
3” pots $18

L. anceps f. coerulea 'NTTOS Winner'	C. Interglossa f. coerulea 'SVO'

SVO 11323           NEW 
(Lc. Lake Tahoe 'Nice and Blue' x Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia')
Lake Tahoe (Lc. Floralia's Azul x L. sincorana) originated from the breeding of Alan Koch from Gold Country Orchids. This plant has been a good grower and bloomer. Its flowers are flat, well rounded, have good color and the plant flowers twice a year. Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) 'Floralia' is of Brazilian origin. It has a very large flower with excellent color measuring almost 6” across on a plant only 8” tall. This is mini-Catt coerulea breeding. We are expecting plants to be a petite 6” tall with large coerulea colored flowers 4” or more in size with darker blue lips, …small plants, big coerulea flowers. This is going to be good! 
3” pots $18

Lc. Lake Tahoe 'Nice and Blue'	Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'

SVO 11200     
(Lc. Moonlight Dream 'SVO Moonlight Kiss' AM/AOS x Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n)
Flared blue mini-catts! Can it get much better?  Moonlight Dream (C. intermedia v. aquinii, coerulea x Lc. Love Knot) has amazing flower color and dark blue flares. Mini Purple (L. pumila x C. walkeriana) is a mericlone mutation found in a batch of clones. It has better shape, size, and substance over the diploids. We are expecting coerulea flowers, mostly flared in darker coerulea with dark blue lips. 
3” pots $18

Lc. Moonlight Dream 'SVO Moonlight Kiss' AM/AOS	Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n

SVO 11204
Lc. Mini Love (Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n x Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS)
Large blue flowers on petite plants is exactly what this cross will deliver! Mini Purple is well-known as a quality breeder. This 4N cultivar has made some great hybrids. Love Knot is a small plant. An excellent grower that's only 5” tall. It blooms twice a year with 2 to 3, very flat flowers that are nearly 4” across. Based on the progeny we have seen produced by these two parents, we can predict coerulea flowers with wide, flat petals, and dark blue lips, making a nice presentation.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n	Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS

SVO 11356     
Lc. Mini Blue Star (Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n x Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia')
This is an outstanding hybrid that has produced many fine cultivars. The breeding involved in this grex are the coerulea forms of Lc. Mini Purple (C. walkeriana x L. pumila) and Lc. Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila). All offspring will have coerulea petals and sepals, with dark-blue lips and a yellow spot in the throat. The plants will be mini-Catts standing barely 6” tall with flowers 3.5” across!  This is a good-looking cross. Check out the reciprocal SVO 11392. Get both, and you can evaluate the influence of the differences between the pod and pollen parent, on the flowers.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n	Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'

SVO 11388     
(Lc. Indigo Valentine 'SVO' x Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia')
The cross of Lc. Indigo Valentine (Indigo Love x Valentine) with its large 5” coerulea flowers and Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) with an almost 6” flower is going to deliver, yep, you guessed it, Big Blue Blooms. This hybrid has great potential! Big blue blooms on compact plants! We are moving the quality of coerulea breeding forward in one big step. The plants will be 8” tall. They will be fully mature in 4” pots, and flower in late spring.
3” pots $20

Lc. Indigo Valentine 'SVO'	Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'

SVO 11392     
Lc. Mini Blue Star (Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia' x Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n)
Lc. Mini Blue Star is an outstanding hybrid that has produced many fine cultivars. The breeding involved in this grex are the coerulea forms of Lc. Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) and Lc. Mini Purple (C. walkeriana x L. pumila). All offspring will have coerulea petals and sepals with dark-blue lips and a yellow spot in the throat. The plants will be mini-Catts standing barely 6” tall with flowers 3.5” across! This is an attractive cross. Check out the reciprocal SVO 11356.  Get both, and you can compare the influence of the differences between the pod and pollen parents.
3” pots $18

Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'	Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea' 4n

SVO 11408     
(Lc. Mystic Seas 'SVO' x Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia')
Here is another giant leap in blue breeding. Lc. Mystic Seas (Cariad's Mini-Quinee x Sarah Sears) is simply stated “the best blue mini-Catt”. The photo tells the whole story.  Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) has excellent color and a very large flower measuring almost 6” across on a plant only 8” tall! This coerulea breeding will deliver nearly perfectly shaped, large, coerulea colored flowers, 5” or more in size with darker blue lips. You will have space for more than one 6”-8” tall plant.  Expecting only good things from this hybrid.
3” pots $20

Lc. Mystic Seas 'SVO'	Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'