Terrestrial orchids 2011 to 2014

[mark smyth]

So disappointed with many of mine. They have gone dormant without making replacement tubers. This applies to those, so far, that didn't flower this year

[Tony Willis]

Steve

interesting to see the oreocharis,I have been trying to flower mine for about three years with no luck so far.

[SteveC2]

I too have had the Oreorchis patens for about three years.  The leaves came up in late July.  For the first time two were produced.  I grow it in a mix of peat, perlite and bark, what I call my woodsy mix, which I also use for Calanthe and the small Cymbidiums.  In the past I have found them to be very attractive to slugs so I have gone out of my way to protect it this year.  By February the leaves were getting downright tatty but then I noticed the flower spike appearing.
So perhaps the plant I bought was too young to flower, perhaps the lack of winter has contributed, or perhaps the longer growing season due to slug protection has made the difference?  I guess I will never know.
But it occurs to me that my Cremastra appendiculata which has a very similar growth pattern also flowered last year for the first time and has two spikes this year so I am thinking that young plants might have been supplied.

[Tony Willis]

Steve

similar mix to mine. Perhaps my plant is not yet mature enough.

[Tony Willis]

Listera ovata growing on Mt Olympus Greece. They were in large numbers and the most robust I have ever seen up to 90 cms high.

Sorry if they are a bit lost in the background but they are a green plant in deep shade.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hi,
Here's a very nice form of Bletilla striata
Picture taken at Lyon BG in a shady area.
JP

[Roma]

Pogonia ophioglossoides

[Steve Garvie]

Pogonia ophioglossoides

Very nice!!!
What mix do you grow it in?

[Roma]

I'm afraid it is still in the original pot from Ardfearn nursery after at least two years.  It looks a fairly peaty mix with grit on top but I have not investigated apart from poking the top occasionally to see if it needs water.    Must try harder but with too many plants needing attention I get quite overwhelmed at times.  I keep saying I must cut down but it's not easy.  I keep seeing something else I MUST have and it's difficult getting rid of old favourites.  Then there's the seedlings which must be grown on to flower and this forum which feeds my addiction

[Steve Garvie]

I'm afraid it is still in the original pot from Ardfearn nursery after at least two years.  It looks a fairly peaty mix with grit on top but I have not investigated apart from poking the top occasionally to see if it needs water.    Must try harder but with too many plants needing attention I get quite overwhelmed at times.  I keep saying I must cut down but it's not easy.  I keep seeing something else I MUST have and it's difficult getting rid of old favourites.  Then there's the seedlings which must be grown on to flower and this forum which feeds my addiction

Many thanks!
I've been growing mine in pure sphagnum -which is currently easy given all the rain we've been getting; but good to know that it is tolerant of a peat/grit mix.

[Philip Walker]

Dactylorhiza foliosa
Dactylorhiza sp. or hybrid

[Tony Willis]

It now seems the optimum time to take the new tubers of dactylorhiza plants in order to encourage additional ones to form and increase your stock  by replanting the flowering plant and keeping it moist in shade.

[mark smyth]

Mine are going over so quickly this year

Last year I bought D. saccifera, white and pink, off ebay. They were sent in perlite but when they arrived they had broken roots and rot had started. I got a full refund including postage which was great. I cut off all black and let them dry for a day or two. It didn't leave very much. I'm amazed they survived and flowered

[Maggi Young]

It now seems the optimum time to take the new tubers of dactylorhiza plants in order to encourage additional ones to form and increase your stock  by replanting the flowering plant and keeping it moist in shade.

Bit early to do  that here in NE Scotland - ours are just coming into flower - we prefer to lift them for that type of propagation when the flowers are just going over.

[Tony Willis]

Bit early to do  that here in NE Scotland - ours are just coming into flower - we prefer to lift them for that type of propagation when the flowers are just going over.
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Mine have been in flower three weeks at least and I took the tubers of Eskimo Nell today and they are looking a really good size and making good roots.