some beauties just flowering

[Peter Maguire]

Don't we all 

[mark smyth]

Or keep plants in the boot/trunk until after dark before sneaking them out

[angie]

Yes Maggi its bad enough not being able to get to the sales table to buy the plant at the show but to miss out at that price makes it even worse.
Roma see how sad you have made us feel

When me and my mum used to come home with all our plants we left them in the car until my dads newspaper came and then we would sneak them around to the back of the house, he never noticed anything when his nose was stuck in the paper, not even mums 5ft Australian grass tree.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories to me.


Angie

[Roma]

Sorry to upset you all by leaving the price on the label.  A big patch of P. ophioglossoides was shown in the bog garden thread and it was mentioned that it went for big prices on e-bay so I thought I'd make some of you jealous.  Jim sometimes has a small number of unusual plants on his stand and then does not have them again.  It must have grown well on the nursery before it was so cheap.  I keep hoping to have it in flower for the Aberdeen show but it has not flowered that early since.

[mark smyth]

mentioning Ardfearn

I was talking to a guy who works for Lagan Valley Regional Park and asked where he was from. Unbelievably he was friends with Jims children

[Gail]

Wild pyramidal orchids flowering now in our orchard.  They are gradually increasing in numbers but some of the verges and roundabouts near here are literally stuffed with them!  Sadly we've only got 2 bee orchids this year, usually more but never to the extent of our neighbours who say that one year they had over a thousand in their orchard.

[daveyp1970]

Stunning Gail

[Maggi Young]

Wild pyramidal orchids flowering now in our orchard.  They are gradually increasing in numbers but some of the verges and roundabouts near here are literally stuffed with them!  Sadly we've only got 2 bee orchids this year, usually more but never to the extent of our neighbours who say that one year they had over a thousand in their orchard.

Really lovely, Gail .... and HOW exciting for your neighbours!! 

[KentGardener]

Nice pictures Gail.  I don't suppose you could pop next door and taking a photo for us could you?   

[mark smyth]

our neighbours who say that one year they had over a thousand in their orchard.

[Gail]

The thousand in the orchard was many years ago - the sole remaining sister at the farm is now very elderly and the orchard overgrown so its more brambles than anything now.

[fredg]

A couple of orchids in full bloom today.
A Dactylorhiza maculata I selected as it has an interesting leaf pattern.
Bletilla formosana

[goofy]

....
A Dactylorhiza maculata I selected as it has an interesting leaf pattern.

hey, dont see any interesting leaf pattern................   

[fredg]

You may recognise this one.

Epipactis thunbergii

[ranunculus]

Gorgeous, Fred ...