2025 has seen a good many new hybrid Cymbidium Orchids added to the RHS Register already, and we are only half way through the year! Here are some newly registered modern Cymbidium Orchids to diversify your collection….
For those that like to continually add brand new Cymbidium Orchids to their collection, here are a few new 2025 registrations to think about.
Cymbidium Sensational Dream
The first of our new Cymbidium Orchisds has been bred and registered by Santy Orchids in the United States.
A very rich orange standard with a big bold red lip that stands out a mile!
Looks to have a pretty good shape, and has some great names in the background…..Cym. Tethys, Cym. Sensation and Cym. Coraki to name a few. The major species influence here is Cym. insigne.
For the modern hobbyist I reckon this one would work a treat!
Image courtesy of an American Orchid Society Facebook post.
Cymbidium Josephine Hickley “Daffodil”
New breeding from Soth Africa now, and a very lovely resultant seedling of Cym. Sarah Jean ‘Vapour’ x Cym. Hilda Porter ‘Misty’.
I believe this selected seedling made by Dr Richard King has been cloned and will be available for purchase.
Cym. Sarah Jean has been a pretty good parent so far and you can find plenty of Cym. insigne and Cym. floribundum in the background. I do like the dotted and spotted labellum on this one and I’m always a sucker for a single coloured flower too, even if it isn’t a ‘pure colour’.
Contact Duckitt Nurseries to see if it is available for purchase.
Image from a Facebook post from Duckitt Nurseries.
Cymbidium Manny Cruz
A recent Orchid Wise Orchid of the Week this one….
One for the pendulous fans and lots of small intermediate sized flowers. There are several cultivars of this cross already, and all have their appeal. The grex is Cym. Janis Elaine Hoenig x Cym. canaliculatum and has plenty of Cym. devonianum in the background.
Bred and grown by George Hatfield in the United States, who supplied the photo for me. I would suggest getting in touch with George to get hold of at least a few seedlings of this cross. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed to see this new registration flowering in your collection!
Contact George to see if you can get hold of some.
Cymbidium High Sparrow
From Pakkret Floriculture in Thailand comes this miniature/intermediate heat tolerant Primary Hybrid. Being my favourite subject, of course I own this one!
Very compact sized plants with upright spikes, Cym. High Sparrow is fragrant too, which is right up my alley. A strong Cym. ensifolium influence can be detected in the fragrance, but you need several plants flowering at once to gain the full effect. Flowers are small intermediate or large miniature in size and all of the seedlings I have have flowered almost the same! There hasn’t been much difference in colour or markings.
Flowering in Autumn it is an early season flowerer, which will extend your flowering season substantially.
Cymbidium Bill M. Padilla
This new cross is Cym. Peter Sander x Cym. madidum. And you can certainly see Cym. maddidum in this one!
A cute first bloom seedling from this cross, and I can’t wait to see how it flowers next season, or for that matter, other seedlings of this grex.
There is certainly some interesting facets to this flower. The dark throat and light labellum is the reverse of what we usually would see and the markings on the petals also give this flower an almost petal peloric feel.
Obviously Cym. maddidum is 50% of this plant, and it certainly shows in the flower, but interestingly, Cym. erythrostylum and Cym. devonianum have a reasonable percentage influence too.
Image taken from an post on the American Orchid Society Facebook page.
There are hundreds of new hybrid Cymbidium Orchids registered every year, and probably hundreds more that aren’t. Keeping