What are your wintergreens doing?

[Neil]

Thanks Tony the colours of it are much brighter than the photo shows, only got my phone now to take pictures   I will be selfing it later to get some seed.  But just want to enjoy it a little bit longer.  Would you be able to pollinate a couple of flowers of the Orchis pauciflora for me?

[Tony Willis]

Neil

yes no problem. Any ideas on my unamed species,preferably a normal one as opposed to the Delforge ones?

[Neil]

Tony
Im my opinion it is sphegodes but you know how variable these Ophrys are,  beyond that I don't know what subspecies it is

[SteveC2]

Am I looking at the right photo because if it is the last in Tony's set it looks very tenthrediniferaesque to me?

[Steve Garvie]

Ophrys oestrifera or scolopax if you prefer.



Ophrys helenae

[Tony Willis]

Am I looking at the right photo because if it is the last in Tony's set it looks very tenthrediniferaesque to me?

Looking at Field Guide to Orchids of Britain and Europe page 215 it could be spegodes and on page 177 it could be tenthredinifera!

Steve beautiful pictures again.

[Neil]

Steve C what ever it is it is nice.  And Steve G Akzo lovely photos.   

[mark smyth]

How variable is O. lutea? My two plants, same pot and one supplier, have different flowers especially the way they are held

[Tony Willis]

They vary greatly in flower size,markings and the way they hold their flowers even within a square yard in the wild.  It has been divided into several species/subspecies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

[Tony Willis]

Dactylorhiza sambucina
Orchis anatolica
Calypso bulbosa

[Steve Garvie]

Three superb plants Tony!!!

[goofy]

hello friends,
I have not so many "wintergreens", but this is a really nice clone

Anacamptis morio var. albiflora


enjoy

[Anthony Darby]

That's lovely. 

[SteveC2]

Only one answer to my original question; flowering!
I spent the morning looking for native early purples then return home to the greenhouse full of flowers.  You've got to love April.
Photos of plunge bed. This is my first year using one and one thing learned is that next year I can use smaller pots as they dry out far less quickly and heat up less than stand alone ones.  Good news that is except for the bank balance.
Dactylorhiza sambucina, lovely colour but follows the sun and so is usually at an angle.  No sun today so upright!

[goofy]

hello friends,
this is my
Anacamptis morio ssp. caucasicum


enjoy