Orchis, Ophrys and others 2013

[Tony Willis]

First of mine starting to flower

Ophrys lutea which has been out about three weeks

Orchis anatolica

Orchis morio called by some Anacamptis morio

[Maren]

Lovely plants and flowers. Would you say they are earlier than usual?

[Tony Willis]

Lovely plants and flowers. Would you say they are earlier than usual?

Not an easy time to place them, the lutea has varied between 31st December and 15th April and the anatolica 25th January  to 2nd April. The morio by only a couple of weeks.

[sottych]

Beautiful Tony
But here in my country the flowers of Orchis Morio come in April/May it's very early !

[Gerhard Raschun]

nice clone of O. anatolica in best condition !

Here are the starters in my collection

[SteveC2]

I know it's now called Neotinea maculata, but it used to be an Orchis so I'll include it here.  Dense flowered orchid, a curiosity rather than a great looker, found in the Med and on the west coast of Ireland.  Self pollinates, often before the flowers open, but in close up the flowers are rather cute.  Books all say between 4 and 40 cm tall. guess which end of the scale mine falls in at?  It's tiny.

[Tony Willis]

Steve
nice to see and seems very early.

I will modify the title of the thread!

[SteveC2]

Certainly is early, but I'm blaming last year's lack of summer, particularly the cool evenings.  It started growing on August 17, two months earlier than the previous year.

[Hans A.]

Beautiful plants Tony and Gerhard - here first Ophrys araneola and second an orchid with missing chlorophyll, I now transplanted it and hope it will become green... any other recommendations are very welcome!

[mark smyth]

No sign of flowers coming on my A. morio

[Miriam]

Some pictures of Orchids near Jerusalem:
 Orchis galilaea
 Cephalanthera longifolia

[Maren]

Hi,
that is the loveliest picture of Cephalanthera longifolia I have ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Tony Willis]

Miriam

very lovely and so early. When I have seen Cephalanthera longifolia in Greece and Spain it has been in flower in May

[Tony Willis]

Another couple struggling through the cold

Ophrys fusca

Orchis papilionacae

[Maggi Young]

I see winter finished a couple of days ago so should we not be moving on to spring?

Another couple struggling through the cold

Still sure that it is spring, Tony?