Dactylorhiza 2013

[Maggi Young]

I don't understand - there is a separate topic about "Eskimo Nell" so why you are adding pictures here??

Probably because the Eskimo Nell topic has dropped down the page and is no longer so visible.
 It doesn't really matter where the pictures are- if the name is in the text the search facility will find them - but, since you bring this to my notice - I'll move them to the other thread http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9255.msg278839#msg278839

[mark smyth]

This is "Dactylorhiza foliosa x saccifera" that I bought off Ebay. The height is 50cm / 20 inches

Kristof have you looked at your plants?

[mark smyth]

Here is my foliosa X saccifera from Ebay, Mark.

Did you buy yours from bonus-henricus? My three plants are identical

[Claire Cockcroft]

The dactylorhizas are putting on quite a show in my garden.  Here is a sampling.  The first two photos are of D. fuchsii 'Bressingham Bonus', the others are hybrids of D. fuchsii with D. maculata and / or D. majalis.

[mark smyth]

Bressingham Bonus - gasp 

[Claire Cockcroft]

I'm glad you like it.    A friend of mine brought it from England years ago and gave me my first start with dachtylorhizas.  It is a good doer and a good multiplier.

[krisderaeymaeker]

This one I grow as Dactylorhiza foliosa .  I am not sure that the name is correct ....But it is a very fine plant anyway ...

[Maggi Young]

Only D. purpurella and a couple of little hybrids open here so far .... it'll be a while before we get the glory of these lovely flowers. Great to see so many doing so well already in far flung places.

[Rob]

A variegated Dactylorhiza.

It's not as attractive as the one Mark showed last year.

[Tony Willis]

Dactylorhiza fuchsii first of mine to open

[K Andrzejewski]

Did you buy yours from bonus-henricus? My three plants are identical

- my plants are identical too and the single flowers are the biggest (the widest - 19mm!)  I ever saw

[fredg]

And yet another Dactylorhiza fuchsii. 

[Maggi Young]

There are  some lovely orchids in this thread :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10610.0
... and a couple of unknown Dacts. - can anyone help ?
see
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10610.msg279076#msg279076
and
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10610.msg279104#msg279104

[winwen]

And yet another Dactylorhiza fuchsii. 

What a great plant, Fred!
I really love the variability in flower and foliage of the D. fuchsii/maculata shown here. Whenever you think you have seen everything possible - someone comes up with something new and even more remarkable. This key-feature together with their ease of growth makes these Dacties my favourite plants.

[John Aipassa]

I went to my own Dactylorhiza heaven this week at Koolmansdijk near my home town. Open to the public with thousands of Dactylorhiza flowering now.

This was once agricultural lands. A couple of years ago the lands were "given back" to nature; managed that is. First the "fertile" top soil was scraped off until the original layer was exposed. Than nature could take its course. The seeds burried under the fertile top soil were now exposed and even after more than a hundred years several germinated and gave the site its original native plant look, with many orchids like the Dacts mentioned, but also Epipactis species (also abundant).