Cyp digression

[Maggi Young]

Welcome, Bernd!
Yes, this season the weather is catching a lot of plants in a bad way.
We see the floods in Norway, Tornadoes in the States, snow in Scotland and today a stage of the Giro d'Italia has been cancelled because of snow and wind ..... what a Spring!


P.S. I love your dog.

Reply:

hi,
yes you are right. But snow is here with us in May or even in June not uncommon.
I must also say that it is this year especially "consistently" cold and wet, however.
Luckily I've mostly arctic and alpine plants. The probably feel "like home" .....;-)
that comforts me and then a little :-)

Bernd

PS: My dog is a Belgian Shepherd dog (Malinois). She always helps me in the garden ;-) loves flowers and their smell :-)

[Catwheazle]

hi,
yes you are right. But snow is here with us in May or even in June not uncommon.
I must also say that it is this year especially "consistently" cold and wet, however.
Luckily I've mostly arctic and alpine plants. The probably feel "like home" .....;-)
that comforts me and then a little :-)

Bernd

PS: My dog is a Belgian Shepherd dog (Malinois). She always helps me in the garden ;-) loves flowers and their smell :-)

[Maggi Young]

I thought she was a Malinois - lovely dogs though we do not see many here in Aberdeen. Great photos of her in your Flickr pages.

Today we have warm sunshine - we are enjoying it while it lasts!

[goofy]

welcome Bernd,
nice to see you here in this wonderful forum......................

you will feel soon, that this is "the better forum" in contrary to  "the other"
(keine dummschwätzer und selbstdarsteller hier)   

cheers
dieter

[Maggi Young]

Zweifellos, hier glauben wir immer an Höflichkeit   

[Catwheazle]

          

[K Andrzejewski]

you will feel soon, that this is "the better forum" in contrary to  "the other"

- "the other (worse?) forum" have for example 84 pages about internet sellers and many other related topics (incl. different forms of scam), also few guys there have "no tolerance" policy for digging up wild orchids and they can write about this without problems - because when people are not "too sensitive", quality is going up.

[Catwheazle]

< "no tolerance" policy for digging up wild orchids

This is basically my opinion too!
I try also possible to start with seedlings or bottled goods and to avoid dubious sources. That's why I've still got a lot of young, non-flowering plants in the garden. It takes much much longer then just everything ......

Here in the mountains there are Cypripedium calceolus, Edelweiss (leontopodium) and gentian (Gentiana), and unfortunately the ever unearthed in fairly large quantities. (The Edelweiss must be monitored by video!) This is very sad. On the other hand, I had to witness in China, such as epiphytes were mass used as animal feed. From the plantations apart. Or, to be managed together with tropical woods across the border to Thailand. There they get "legal" papers for export to Europe. But unfortunately here are already fallen victim to many orchid meadows particularly agriculture (manure!) Or building a house.

[Maggi Young]

"no tolerance" policy for digging up wild orchids

The SRGC fully supports the conservation and preservation of any wild plants and supports adherence to local laws and regulations.

[K Andrzejewski]

Same here .... we try to reproduce everything from seeds, and to buy only from reputable sources, but some time it is very difficult to check with suppliers .... so you end up not buying.

- I have completely other feeling

[Corrado & Rina]

I do not understand .... can you explain?

[K Andrzejewski]

I do not understand .... can you explain?

- sorry, but no - so and so I got trouble, so better to stay calm...

[K Andrzejewski]

...but looking at the topic, you can see this is a thread about ...

- OK, OK, so and so I have to disappear now (I'm working today too) - just last thing on the end: Bernd, did you saw info about Ophrys sphegodes in Eichstätt?
Greeting for AHO-crew
Kristof