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| | | Author: | Stuart9  | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 15:37 | | Subject: | Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 175 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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| | | | | Author: | billamber | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 16:08 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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Beautiful!! 
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| | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 16:10 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
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One of the global warming effects?
Maybe one of these days you'll have a good weather in England 
Enjoy 
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 19:17 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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Always a welcome site in nature, orchids. These Marsh Orchids can be found in
even colder climes than that of Cornwall, too. It's said that they’re finicky
cultivars, yet surprisingly hardy in the wild.
Thanks for sharing.
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| | | | | Author: | TheCuteGiraffe | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 19:44 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | Nice flowers they look good against the grass. As in the bright purple. |
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| | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 21:26 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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I love orchids.
It's interesting that you are suddenly seeing a profusion of these marsh
orchids where you previously noticed none. Orchid seeds are tiny, and are distributed
in huge numbers, but the conditions for germination can be tricky. It is possible
that last summer your area was wetter than usual, or cooler than usual, or drier,
or warmer, or the soil PH became less acidic, or some other environmental change
produced the ideal conditions for growth, resulting in more blooms this year.
I experienced something like this some years ago on my Dad's farm in Canada.
Bruce County is well known for wild orchids, but we had never seen any on the
farm. One year in June, we went for a walk in his Cedar bush, and were greeted
by the most amazing sight of hundreds of beautiful yellow Ladies Slippers in
full bloom. Something had triggered germination and flowering, possibly the woods
being moister that year. The next year there were only a couple of orchids, and
the year after that, they had once again completely disappeared. Who knows but
that there are hundreds of orchids seeds lying dormant in the ground waiting
for the once in a lifetime conditions that will bring them to life again.
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 22:41 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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A close friend of mine once gave me an orchid flower. I did my best to keep it
alive but it died within a few weeks.
I've never seen them in the wild before. Looks much different than the one
I had.
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| | | | | | | Author: | novabrick | | Posted: | Jun 2, 2022 03:04 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I gifted my mother
much easier to keep.
She has a bunch of real ones too though.
Christian
novabrick-team
In Off Topic, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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A close friend of mine once gave me an orchid flower. I did my best to keep it
alive but it died within a few weeks.
I've never seen them in the wild before. Looks much different than the one
I had.
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| | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 23:02 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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Looks like a species from the Dactylorhiza family (Southern / Irish / Early Marsh
Orchid).
Niek.
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| | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jun 2, 2022 05:18 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Thanks guys, the consensus of those I’ve talked to is that they are southern
marsh orchids.
More appearing by the day, stunning !
They may have been here for years, I’ve just moved to the area.
These are completely different to the species of orchids that you see for sale,
those you buy are much more eye catching than the ones we have here in the U.K.
In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Jun 2, 2022 15:36 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| There are over 25,000 known orchid species. They grow all over the world, on
every continent except Antarctica.
Some are very small and plain. Some are very showy and colorful. And everything
in-between.
The type of orchids you see for sale in your local shop are all tropical epiphitic
orchids (growing on the branches of trees) from rainforest canopies in Southeast
Asia. Although the ones in the store are mostly hybrids grown in large commercial
greenhouses.
Beware Orchids. Collecting them is about as expensive, and addictive as Lego.
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