Terrestrial orchids 2011 to 2014

[Darren]

Go for it Angie.  I grew them better as a beginner than I do now and they gave me a lot of pleasure for a few years. I lost most of mine around the time we moved and my job relocated. Probably I was too stressed and distracted to give them my attention. Conditions here are, I think, not as good for them as in the old garden where the greenhouse did not get quite as hot and dry.

My advice is start with Ophrys as I found these much easier than Orchis/Anacamptis. This seems contrary to book advice but I'm not the only one to find this.

That said - I've now got some Orchis italica which have done OK for a couple of years - fingers crossed.

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Maren,
My Ponerorchis were given to me by a friend who brought them back from Japan, so I don't have a source to suggest other than those already mentioned.

Paul

[ThomasB]

Ponerorchis graminifolia is also offered by Orchidwubben in the Netherlands. I have no experience though, never ordered there.

[Maren]

Wubbens are a good nursery, I often buy plants from them at shows. They specialise in the weird and wonderful, which is very much after my own heart.

Never tried their mail order service, so can't say.

[Darren]

Wow - their list is certainly impressive!

[zvone]

Hi Maren!

Your orchids ( web link) are of wonderful! Congratulate. Yet forward successfully.

Send picture "of water orchid" from my garden:



Best regards!    Zvone

[Lori S.]

Zvone, your "water orchid" looks like Aponogeton distachyos (water hawthorn)... is it?  I've never heard of the term "water orchid" before.  We grow this one here too, and I find the flowers on it to be absolutely amazing, and among the most bizarre I've ever seen! 

[zvone]

Zvone, your "water orchid" looks like Aponogeton distachyos (water hawthorn)... is it?  I've never heard of the term "water orchid" before.  We grow this one here too, and I find the flowers on it to be absolutely amazing, and among the most bizarre I've ever seen!  

Hi Lori!

It really is he: this is WATER HAWTHORN!

Therefore am also name "water orcihds" come on to quotation marks.
(I am apologising myself:Wished for am pleasantly to surprise Maren)

Best regards!   Zvone

[Maren]

Hello Zvone,

it is a pleasant surprise and had me confused for a very short while. 

[zvone]

Hello Zvone,

it is a pleasant surprise and had me confused for a very short while. 

Hi Maren!

Beautiful things last unfortunately (washes)short!

Best regards!  Zvone

[Maggi Young]

I hope those of you growing Water Hawthorn  have taken the chance to enjoy its lovely scent?

[ronm]

I'm afraid that the water table is so low here that our pond has been virtually dry all of last year. Probably lost all of our water plants. . Rationing is being forecast

[David Nicholson]

I'll send you a drop Ron, we've got plenty to spare

[Michael J Campbell]

we've got plenty to spare

Same here, and they want to charge us for it now and I after spending a fortune on a new roof trying to keep it out of the house.

[fredg]

I'll send you a drop Ron, we've got plenty to spare

Need plenty here too David please.

Just a few little pictures of what happens when you sink an Epipactis gigantea pot in a couple of inches of gravel for a growing season.
Rampant little devil isn't it