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Terrestrial orchids 2024

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Anders:
Fotos of Epipactis from the last three weeks. They like the rainy summer.

Anders:
More Epipactis...

ashley:
Lovely epipactis Anders 8)
What conditions do you find suit them best in the garden?

Anders:
Hi Ashley. They are all easy to grow, full sun or semi-shade and plenty of water, except helleborine and atrorubens, they prefer drier conditions. My soil is a silty loam, but I don't think soil type matters, I have seen nicely grown plants in both sandy soil and peat. Palustris has shallow roots and needs some sort of soil cover to keep the soil moist and cool, I use wood chips. Veratrifolia is a bit frost-sensitive and needs winter mulching. I don't recommend gigantea, it is very weedy and has the potential to become an invasive species in nature, its hybrid Catalina is almost as bad.

Anders

ashley:
Thanks Anders. That's really helpful 🙂

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