Terrestrial orchids 2015

[Melvyn Jope]

Photos of Dactylorhiza and Anacamptis look fabulous Steve, thanks for posting.

[Brian Ellis]

Interesting piece in our local paper today:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/rare_orchid_spotted_in_norfolk_for_first_time_in_60_years_1_4122725

[SteveC2]

Given that these plants thrive down at Newmarket and are spreading to new sites all the time this is not such a surprise.   Golfers are supposed to be transferring the seeds from course to course in Kent so presumably orchid spotters are carrying them all over the country!

But as they are now readily available to buy there has to be an element of doubt as with the Ophrys tenthredinifera in Dorset and the tongue orchids in the south west.  Either way, hopefully it will thrive and build a colony.

I have just realised that I think I know the "bridge playing orchid expert" but am surprised that it took her so long to recognise the rosette as they are very distinctive.

But what an awful photograph!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Interesting piece in our local paper today:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/rare_orchid_spotted_in_norfolk_for_first_time_in_60_years_1_4122725

Lots of them near Sandwich in Kent.

[gerrit]

Dactylorhiza praetermissa ssp majalis v. junialis, in my garden at pondmargin between irisses in only sphagnum.
They seem to benefit from a Corylus next to them. Does anybody know about a symbiotic relationship between Dactylorhiza and Corylus. It is remarkable that this huge group thrives well (I do nothing to propagate) ad on the other side of the pond no orchids to be seen, or in the garden.

[Johan K.]

Pogonia ophioglossoides

Calopogon tuberosus

Calopogon tuberosus 'Alba'

[Johan K.]

Bletilla in bloom.

Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata variegata

Bletilla striata variegata alba

[Yann]

Not so far the Kent coast, on the other side of the Channel, the terrestrial orchids are in full bloom.

[Yann]

The old dunes contains a rare flora.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Very nice to see, Yann.

[Maren]

This little beauty (Ponerorchis graminifolia) has been in flower for over a months now. I grow it with my Pleione praecox and other winter flowering pleiones, minimum winter temperature 5°C. The plant is prolific although the flower size is smaller than some. I am still looking for a nice large flowered one of these, preferably not white.

[Yann]

quite nearby home, in Belgium (some of the flemish members will recognise the areas)

I went there to see the first Epipactis, without much hope of observing other orchids....finally

[Yann]

and the Epipactis in bloom. It's becoming really dry.

[Tony Willis]

Dactylorhiza saccifera

[Yann]

grace and beauty