What are your wintergreens doing?

[Tony Willis]

Some more in flower now

Aceras anthropophorum

Ophrys lutea a very large flowered one

Orchis quadripunctata

Orchis anatolica

[Tony Willis]

two

Orchis tridentata

[Steve Garvie]

Orchis quadripunctata

[Alex]

Steve, your photos are fantastic. I'm afraid mine are exceedingly poor by comparison.

Nonetheless, a few from the plunge today - Ophrys splendida, Ophrys bertolonii, Orchis simia and Serapias neglecta.

Alex

[Steve Garvie]

Steve, your photos are fantastic. I'm afraid mine are exceedingly poor by comparison.

Nonetheless, a few from the plunge today - Ophrys splendida, Ophrys bertolonii, Orchis simia and Serapias neglecta.

Alex

Aye, but your plants are better and that's what counts! 

[Tony Willis]

very nice plants being shown

Two Calypso bulbosa the first being very pale and the second a more typical colour

[mark smyth]

Just now I noticed one of my Orchis italica had died back. Since coming above ground it hadn't grown much and got no more than about 1cm across. I removed it just now and was amazed to see it had despite its size made a new tuber for next year. It also had roots coming from two places. Is this normal? It may because I had it too deep. Rosette to the first roots is 2cm and to the old tuber is also 2cm

[SteveC2]

I have never seen the two sets of roots before.  I doubt though that it is because you set it too deep and the top set of roots look rather strange, thin and wire like compared with the normal ones just above the tuber.  Very odd.

[Steve Garvie]

Orchis italica



Orchis purpurea

[mark smyth]

That's a lovely O. italica

[Steve Garvie]

That's a lovely O. italica

Thanks Mark!
Sadly the leaf-spotting is somewhat underwhelming.

[SteveC2]

Without doubt the most frustrating plants in my collection are my Thelymitras, Australian Sun orchids.  The name gives a hint to the problem.  Only open when it is warm and sunny, close up quite quickly when the cloud arrives.  I swear my Melon Glow hybrid had come and gone before I even saw it open.  But these two were open this morning and so I grabbed the camera, no time for great shots, just get proof of life!  Theymitra nuda and Thelymitra megacalyptra, both of which resemble a piece of grass until the flowers emerge.  I find them quite easy to flower, just wish I could get on top of the leaf tip burn.

[mark smyth]

Quite excited today when I checked my pot of dormant Orchis lactea. Each plant has made two tubers

[fermi de Sousa]

Without doubt the most frustrating plants in my collection are my Thelymitras, Australian Sun orchids. 

Congrats on flowering them, Steve!
I'm completely useless at growing orchids and though this sort do exist in the area I won't even hazard trying to grow them in the garden - we have too many slugs anyway! Keep up the good work growing and showing
cheers
fermi

[SteveC2]

But wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk out on a Sunny afternoon to see them growing wild!  No doubt if I flew over it would coincide with the cloudiest spell ever experienced.