some beauties just flowering

[Neil]

Thanks for everyone's reply about taking purple flower shots.  Will give it another go later.

[Neil]

Still having no luck with purple but I have mastered green

Herminium monorchis

[KentGardener]

Hello John,
that white is stunning. As for scent, you may like to try again when it's warmed up. Some plants only produce scent when their pollinators are active, which in some cases is temperature dependent. I find that a lot with my tropical orchids and scented pleiones (praecox).
Maybe they were still in bed when you were about at 4:30? 

Hi Maren

Many thanks for the suggestion - I'm home from work and have had another sniff but still no scent that my nose can detect.  I'll just have to appreciate its looks.   

[fredg]

Still having no luck with purple but I have mastered green

Herminium monorchis

Nice plant Neil, care to describe the scent?
Well either describe it or send the plant  

[daveyp1970]

Fred why do you want to know the scent of Neils pant lmao

[Neil]

Still having no luck with purple but I have mastered green

Herminium monorchis

Nice pant Neil, care to describe the scent?
Well either describe it or send the plant 

BBQ

[mark smyth]

Because they smell so good? I've asked lots of people to describe the scent of my plants and we are all stumped. It's like a "bowl of fresh fruit", "icecream" and "vanilla"

Maggi go out and sniff your Dacts

[fredg]

Fred why do you want to know the scent of Neils pant lmao

That'll teach me to double check my typing.

[Maggi Young]

Because they smell so good? I've asked lots of people to describe the scent of my plants and we are all stumped. It's like a "bowl of fresh fruit", "icecream" and "vanilla"

Maggi go out and sniff your Dacts

Well, that was time consuming... there are more of them than you'd think!
Pretty hard to smell anything in our garden at the moment other than the Corydalis 'Craigton Blue ' which is wafting it's delicious sweet honey scent everywhere. However, I have thoroughly sniffed every size shape colour and form of Dactylorhiza.... lord knows how many critters I have inhaled in the process 
So, what is the scent? Nothing really! Only the faintest honey vanilla.... the very faintest whiff, mind. they are not what I would term "scented" as such. 

[fredg]

You've just not got the right ones Maggi.

Some are well scented.

[angie]

Maggi you always make me laugh... the thought of all those creepy crawlies in your nose just makes me smile You must have been out there all afternoon sniffing with the amount of dactylorhizas you have out there. Still it was a lovely day for being out in the garden.

Angie

[mark smyth]

Maggi try again on a nice warm day

here are the flowers of my variegated Dactylorhiza. The bracts are variegated also. I'll try and get a better photo of them.

[mark smyth]

My trip to view orchids at Killard Point was mind blowing. A bit like snowdrops  I found them extremely confusing - except for pyramidal and twayblades

The Dactylorhizas were in every shade from purest white, greenish whites through to all shades of pink, purples and almost red. The height range was so variable from tiny but flowering to huge mosters like we see in our gardens. It was impossible to walk in the grass without standing on orchids. Well not good in my size 10s

A guy who works there wants to start propogating, to sell, to prevent thefts. He likes my idea of an 'allotment' where he can lift, from the wild, and replant orchids

[mark smyth]

My trip to view orchids at Killard Point was mind blowing. A bit like snowdrops  I found them extremely confusing - except for pyramidal and twayblades

The Dactylorhizas were in every shade from purest white, greenish whites through to all shades of pink, purples and almost red. The height range was so variable from tiny but flowering to huge mosters like we see in our gardens. It was impossible to walk in the grass without standing on orchids. Well not good in my size 10s

A guy who works there wants to start propogating, to sell, to prevent thefts. He likes my idea of an 'allotment' where he can lift, from the wild, and replant orchids

[daveyp1970]

here's my Pogonia ophioglossoides