Dactylorhizas 2012

[erf]

Dear all experts

This winter my dactylorhiza place in the garden was completely messed up by cats    . All nameplates was all pulled up and spread around. This means that the plants that are flowering now, are without name. Can any of you give me a hand getting order into this mess. I have tried with the help of the internet, but I am not all sure.

Kind regards Erling

[Tony Willis]

Dactylorhiza fuchsii in flower. It is 58 cms tall,leggy rather than elegant.

[fredg]

One of those seedlings that pop-up here and there.
I'll leave it to Davey to ID 

[Claire Cockcroft]

The first hybrid dactylorhizas are in bloom.  Parentage?  D. fuchsii, D. maculata, D. mascula?  They're so nice, I don't much care, since they seeded themselves.  They seem to like places where it's almost impossible to move them, as in the middle of Pacific Coast hybrid irises.

[mark smyth]

OM! Claire P1050002.jpg is a stunner!

[daveyp1970]

One of those seedlings that pop-up here and there.
I'll leave it to Davey to ID 

A purple marsh orchid Fred  very possibly a hybrid

[mark smyth]

Looks like Harold Esselmont is seeding in the garden and coming true.

1 Harold Esselmont
2 Harold Esselmont
3 seedling
4 seedling

[mark smyth]

A rescued plant from a garden once belonging to brilliant N Irish plant collector

[mark smyth]

If only orchids had as much interest as snowdrops 

Dactylorhiza ?fuchsii ex Cruickshank Botanic Gardens

[Maggi Young]

Overall, I'm sure orchids have even more interest in them than snowdrops!

It's just that there are many thousands of species of orchid in hundreds of genera and, as we can see in the Dactylorhiza photos, every one is a bit different, so there is no generation of the hysteria that accompanies galanthus. There have been fanatic orchid collectors in history, of course, and I suppose some do still exist, but by and large they seem to keep their foibles a little more out of the public eye!

[mark smyth]

There are two orchid training days over here tomorrow and July 5th lead by Tom Curtis. Maybe I should cut some stems for him.

[Neil]

Overall, I'm sure orchids have even more interest in them than snowdrops!

It's just that there are many thousands of species of orchid in hundreds of genera and, as we can see in the Dactylorhiza photos, every one is a bit different, so there is no generation of the hysteria that accompanies galanthus. There have been fanatic orchid collectors in history, of course, and I suppose some do still exist, but by and large they seem to keep their foibles a little more out of the public eye!

But is that not the same with the galanthus only slight differences and they are then given another cultivar name?

[winwen]

My Dacties started flowering too...

another one....

good to see that also the babies come true...

and finally one shot just to make you want more....

[Brian Ellis]

Please note I am not rising to the moderators comments on snowdrops   Lovely photos all, I see my dacts are almost showing colour.

[Maggi Young]

Sometimes it is boring for the moderator when forumists show restraint.....