Dactylorhizas 2012

[mark smyth]

Chris this is how easy it is http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/230806/log.html

I've just thought of something. I mentioned today and last year how Dactylorhizas have roots just below soil surface. Could it be that the 'fingers' of the tuber are anchor roots while the roots that emerge from just below the growing point are feeding roots?

[ChrisB]

Mark - the hard part is plucking up the courage to dig them out, not the splitting once dug.  I've done the latter many times.  I am just nervous about digging that particular one out as it looks so comfortable where it is...

[winwen]

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I finished up with several pots and a 6ft run in troughs.

Thank you very much, Fred!
Your pictures -especially the collage- show everything which is, why I love those Dactylorhiza maculata sooooooo much!
Your 6 feet run in troughs reminds me of what I have seen about 3-4 years ago in a roadside ditch in Sweden. Sadly most of these were killed when the municipal community decided to deepen those ditches after heavy summer-rainfalls 

[Jonny_SE]

Dactylorhiza maculata is somthing that spreads out in every flower bed i got them so if anyone want to trade feel free to ask..........//Jonny

[mark smyth]

yes please 

[Jonny_SE]

Mail me your address Mark...they are 1cm over ground now and still inn good dormacy to ship i think....//Jonny

[Jonny_SE]

I just  had to check out the once i potted last autum so there was any life in them before i promissed anything...i think some maybe need one more year before they bloom but some will for sure.....Jonny

[mark smyth]

oh my

[Slug Killer]

Mark, Oh my does not come close, it really is exceptional.

[mark smyth]

I'm worried for it this year because so far there isnt much chlorophyl.

Next week I'll have to make a small sun screen to go around it so it doesnt burn

[Neil]

Mark

I would not put a sun screen round it, in the wild Dacts are usually out in the open in full sun.  It won't burn because of the lack of chlorophyl, it will just not produce much energy from the sun, so it will need as much sunlight as possible.

[mark smyth]

Didnt think about that Neil, thanks

[mark smyth]

I continue to find spotty babies. I found one today in the middle of a clump of Iris.

Also two large spot babies. Do you think they will keep large spots?

[Tony Willis]

Mark

I have dozens if not a couple of hundred self sown seedlings and there is not one without spots.

[fredg]

I have a Dactylorhiza maculata  that at some stage I want named.
This is for the leaf marking, not the flower
Amazingly it survived the Lurgi epidemic untouched.