muba
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Not too late to show us some photos.
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2018 Orchid Thread (1 Viewer)
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Not too late to show us some photos.
Hi Guys has any of you got a photo giving a good impression of the vastness of the numbers of ALTs at this site? If so would you kindly post it up. We have an old family friend who loves wild orchids and she has been thrilled to hear the news of them at Great Orme and we would love her to be able to see a pic of them. Thanks.
Lee
Lee
muba
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Great Orme wasn't the best site. I saw perhaps a hundred on the path leading from West Beach up to the old gardens overlooking the town. The first pic shows the terrain from the path, rather than ALTS. At Gop Hill which has a stile to climb and a steeper hill there are thousands, a few to be seen on second pic.
Good luck
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muba
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Highlights of my year #7
Talacre Dunes in the north east corner of Wales hosts a fantastic display of Dactylorhiza at the end of May and beginning of June. There is an overlapping succession of D. incarnata coccinea, D. incarnata incarnata and D. purpurella. You also find some pesky hybrids, but here they add to the variety. Well worth a visit for other species too.
I am currently serially re-reading John Haggar's seven articles about D. incarnata in the JHOS, which had the last one published this month after a hiatus of 10 years. Apart from his central message that if it is a purple flowered D. incarnata and it does not grow in acid bog conditions it is not Var. pulchella - it is a purple flowered D. incarnata which is the usual and nominate form from Scandinavia. We may be putting to much emphasis on the different coloured types being sub-species when in fact they are forms, and possibly eco-types.
Talacre Dunes in the north east corner of Wales hosts a fantastic display of Dactylorhiza at the end of May and beginning of June. There is an overlapping succession of D. incarnata coccinea, D. incarnata incarnata and D. purpurella. You also find some pesky hybrids, but here they add to the variety. Well worth a visit for other species too.
I am currently serially re-reading John Haggar's seven articles about D. incarnata in the JHOS, which had the last one published this month after a hiatus of 10 years. Apart from his central message that if it is a purple flowered D. incarnata and it does not grow in acid bog conditions it is not Var. pulchella - it is a purple flowered D. incarnata which is the usual and nominate form from Scandinavia. We may be putting to much emphasis on the different coloured types being sub-species when in fact they are forms, and possibly eco-types.
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muba
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Highlights of my year #8
I had always known that Greater Butterfly Orchids grew at Llynllys near Oswestry, but it was always a couple here and a few there. Last year though we came across a area where we hadn't trod before. There were GBOs galore, but this was beyond their flowering period. So it was back there at the begining of June and it was quite a display - not hundreds but enough to have you having to decide which one to photogrpah next.
I had always known that Greater Butterfly Orchids grew at Llynllys near Oswestry, but it was always a couple here and a few there. Last year though we came across a area where we hadn't trod before. There were GBOs galore, but this was beyond their flowering period. So it was back there at the begining of June and it was quite a display - not hundreds but enough to have you having to decide which one to photogrpah next.
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Highlights of my year #9
Haskayne Cutting is a small reserve near an old railway line a few miles inland from Ainsdale. It hosted a display of Southern Marsh Orchids numbering well over a thousand. I was there last year later in the year well after the SMOs, but there were some nice large and robust pink flowered Early Marsh Orchids.
Some of the SMOs this year were quite robust and may represent D. xwintoni, which apparently closely resembles the SMO parent according to someone who grew these at home. Worth a visit early June, or perhaps a bit later and see if the EMOs are also there in 2019
Haskayne Cutting is a small reserve near an old railway line a few miles inland from Ainsdale. It hosted a display of Southern Marsh Orchids numbering well over a thousand. I was there last year later in the year well after the SMOs, but there were some nice large and robust pink flowered Early Marsh Orchids.
Some of the SMOs this year were quite robust and may represent D. xwintoni, which apparently closely resembles the SMO parent according to someone who grew these at home. Worth a visit early June, or perhaps a bit later and see if the EMOs are also there in 2019
