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Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« on: January 06, 2017, 03:50:40 PM »
The first of the season: Ophrys fusca, an earlier form from Rhodos
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2017, 04:59:21 PM »
My word, I wouldn't have guessed from your photos at the end of the year  - http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13912.msg369042#msg369042    - that they would come so quickly to flower
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2017, 08:04:52 PM »
It is amazing what a bit of heat will do, not that we are due any of that in the next few days.
 Pass the blow torch!

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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2017, 08:41:38 PM »
The first of the season: Ophrys fusca, an earlier form from Rhodos

Hi Yann, from the north of France! Nice Ophrys, I love them. I'm also from the north of France!

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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2017, 08:44:41 PM »
this afternoon, outside minus 6°c but under glass when sun was shinning 16°C, enough to trigger the first blossoms.
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2017, 08:45:14 PM »
Jules from which area? you can PM
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2017, 07:24:28 PM »
My friend, Stella Tracey, has sent me some Orchid pictures and has agreed that I post them on the Forum. The four (SM1-SM4) are of Orchids in Stella's meadow. 
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2017, 07:26:01 PM »
The next are from a secret Devon location.
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2017, 07:27:51 PM »
My word - lovely in all locations!
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2017, 09:02:43 PM »
That bicolour orchid is a very strange Early Purple.  I have seen a few all whites, but never one with a bit of both.

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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2017, 10:56:46 PM »
that's what i call a magic carpet ;D
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2017, 09:08:31 AM »
Love the Bi-colour Orchis mascula
Interested in Hardy Orchids then join The Hardy Orchid Society
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2017, 10:40:55 AM »
I see Jeff  Hutchings of Laneside Hardy Orchids  has some   interesting plants on offer :
 "  the following cypripedium show specials on offer on the web shop at the moment. All have a minimum of 8 big buds and some even more. Orders can be placed on the web shop or drop me an email. All orders plus postage. Plants to the UK will be sent out potted. There are photographs of the flowers of these plants on the web.

Lady Dorine, Memoria Shawna Austin, Lucas, Ursel, Memoria Gerd Kohls.

 also  Bernd, Bernd White, Boots, Michael, Formosanum

Orders will be dispatched in late February."

See details on Jeff's website here
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2017, 10:43:32 AM »

See details on Jeff's website here

....... and Jeff's advert in the January edition of The Rock Garden which will be out soon.
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Re: Terrestrial Orchids 2017
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2017, 12:06:30 PM »
Some pot-grown orchids starting to flower here:

Ophrys leochroma -two different clones, one of which has swept-back petals.




Ophrys lutea



Ophrys speculum



Anacamptis papilionacea
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