Terrestrial Orchids 2017

[Maggi Young]

me too! Quality "weeds" - Ian is writing about this sort of "weed" in the Bulb Log - out tomorrow!

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Jun071496828516BULB_LOG_2317.pdf

[David Nicholson]

A couple of Dactylorhiza both from my friend Mike Quest

[Steve Garvie]

A superb dark Dactylorhiza David.

[David Nicholson]

Yes, it's a good form Steve. Mike tells me he got it from Wildside around five years ago and he has around five good sized clumps in various parts of his garden as well as those he gave to me . His pink form came from Simon Bond.

[SteveC2]

But presumably we have a problem with colour on the photo?  Otherwise that is the bluest dact in history and wonderful beyond belief!

[David Nicholson]

Well, according to Mrs N, I'm the World's worst when it comes to colours! My picture is, to me, a fair representation of the plant's colour. I'll try another shot tomorrow morning, in the morning the light won't be as direct as it was when I took the first shot.

[David Nicholson]

Same camera setting (Program mode), morning light rather than afternoon as in the previous shot. Not blue any more?

[SteveC2]

Not as blue, but still impressive.  I live in hope of a genuinely blue dact!

[Yann]

Nice clump David

[johnw]

In flower today and everytime they do all I can think about is the delicious little 'Inkspot' at Oxen Pond BG and the one we lost ex Jack Drake's.

1 - Dactylorhiza sp. or hybrid ex Don Armstrong
2 - Dactylorhiza foliosa ex Jack Elliot
3 - Dactylorhiza praetermissa v. julialus 'Inkspot'

john

[GordonT]

John, where did you get your Dacts? Love the foliage on praetermissa 'Inkspot'.

[johnw]

John, where did you get your Dacts? Love the foliage on praetermissa 'Inkspot'.

Long ago from Don in BC - likely from Thelma Chapman originally, Jack Drake in Scotland and the great guru Jack Eliot in England.

john

[gerrit]

Dactylorhiza praetermissa subsp. junialis is the pearl of our nature in The Netherlands, the low country in the delta of Rhine and Meuse. It is the orchid, loving wetlands streams ditches and so on. In our country, laid mainly below sea-level you may think it is a weed, but it isn't. It is threatened  by building activities, road constructions, industrial parks, agriculture and many other.

This native species has been settled in my garden where I have made a typical habitat. From the border of a pond towards the middle they found home between the roots of irisses.

[Yann]

It looks great

[gerrit]

Epipactis palustris