Dactylorhiza 2013

[mark smyth]

The Dactylorhiza in the garden and in pots are now starting to grow.

One in a pot is too far on

Dactylorhiza romana in a pot in the green house is growing very fast

The flower head of Barlia robertiana is now poking through

[Anthony Darby]

Looking good Mark.

[mark smyth]

All my Dactylorhiza that had growing points above ground during the winter have badly damaged leaves. I think this summer I will lift them all and replant deeper so the noses are maybe 1 or 2 cm below ground.

The spotty babies that I potted singly last year are all doing well. Some have two or three noses this year. Here are two of my favourites especially the second one.

[Anthony Darby]

Who needs flowers with gorgeous leaves like these.

[Tony Willis]

All my Dactylorhiza that had growing points above ground during the winter have badly damaged leaves. I think this summer I will lift them all and replant deeper so the noses are maybe 1 or 2 cm below ground.

Mark

I see no point in doing this. The plants make their growing points at the correct depth by themselves. If you feel the need you could always top dress them but these are totally hardy plants and do not need our assistance.

[K Andrzejewski]

According to the advice of S.Malmgren that planting must be compatible with the natural life cycle of plants, I used yesterday all rest of soil from my lawn (all about in "growing Anacamptis inside the lawn on clay soil ") to plant in-vitro seedlings of Dactylorhiza incarnata (still on sell on eBay UK  from Stephen Kirk - top quality plants, can highly recommend).
Regards -
Kristof

[Tony Willis]

Dactylorhiza sambucina on Mt Vermion, Greece at 1700m today flowering in thousands

[mark smyth]

Image size Kristof!

reedit your photos to 700 pixels wide, click modify beside your images, delete them and upload new ones.

[K Andrzejewski]

Mark - I'm computer-Idiot and I will be definitely tomorrow too. When I click "modify" - I can only change text (this have nothing to do with any pictures). Rules are - pictures size have to be less than 200kB, I'm using "Paint"  Program to resize all photos of my, so I do about 130-150kB now and still wrong? There is no problem on my computer to see them so I completely don't understand what's going one. Sorry - I will add no more pictures at all
Kristof

[mark smyth]

You need Photoshop. When I find mine I will mail it to you. Its very easy to use

[Neil]

Kristoff try this link, http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9993.0  it is quick and easy to re-size a picture

[K Andrzejewski]

Kristof ... it is quick and easy to re-size a picture

- they are resized, so I don't understand why 130kB is not enough for this b...y pictures

[Maren]

Hello Krzysztof,

I used to resize my pictures with Corel and what a pain that was. I really hated it.

Then I discovered the nice little tool provided by the SRGC. So easy, one doesn't even have to think. It has changed my life. Now I can smile again when thinking about uploading pictures. - And we would like to see yours, please.

[Neil]

Kristoff

what you need to do is make the pixel size smaller, so that its maximium width is 600 pixels , this program ill do that for you.

[Anthony Darby]

I use IrfanView to resize my pics. It's free and simple to use.