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Native orchids

  • 12-06-2012 12:03pm
    #1
    swifts need our help!
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    hi all

    Does anyone grow native orchids?

    A contact in England is looking for seeds of or a plant of Dactylorhiza majalis ssp. occidentalis the Irish marsh orchid.

    Mark


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  • #2
    Desmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Desmo


    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    hi all

    Does anyone grow native orchids?

    A contact in England is looking for seeds of or a plant of Dactylorhiza majalis ssp. occidentalis the Irish marsh orchid.

    Mark

    I take it your friend knows how to cultivate them. They are very hard to grow unless you know how to. The seeds are murder to germinate (they need the correct mycorrhizal fungi and conditions) and the plants of many Irish orchids die after flowering.

    The National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin in Dublin did have a native orchid section but I have not been there in a while; dunno about Belfast?

    I just checked the Dublin gardens and they have it listed as being in their collection
    http://www.botanicgardens.ie/nbg/famidex.htm


  • #3
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    He grows his own from seed and is looking for this one. Glasnevin dont grow this orchid. Belfast Botanic gardens is rubbish compared to Dublin's

    Would people like to see photos of my orchids?


  • #4
    Desmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Desmo


    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    He grows his own from seed and is looking for this one. Glasnevin dont grow this orchid. Belfast Botanic gardens is rubbish compared to Dublin's

    Would people like to see photos of my orchids?

    Ok, fair enough. Will ask around.

    Des


  • #5
    Traonach
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    I had common spotted orchid growing in the garden. It died off though. Post your pics up mark. Do you have bee orchid or fly orchid.


  • #6
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    Traonach wrote: »
    Do you have bee orchid or fly orchid.

    Are you offering? I only have Dactylorhiza species, Cypripediums and Orchis mascula

    Mark


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  • #7
    Traonach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Traonach


    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    Are you offering? I only have Dactylorhiza species, Cypripediums and Orchis mascula

    Mark

    I don't have them. I thought you might have them .


  • #8
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    I'll have one or both later this summer - what summer! - from a guy who grows them from seed on agar.


  • #9
    Desmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Desmo


    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    I'll have one or both later this summer - what summer! - from a guy who grows them from seed on agar.

    I hope you are a patient man; some of them take years to flower (and then just once for some of them). Mind you the Dactylorrhizas seem to be faster and some are even used in gardens. If you friend is indeed growing them this way, then he sounds like he knows what he is doing arlight so good luck with it. I meant to check my Irish flora last night for distribution in the wild.

    http://www.species.ie/burren/species.php?species_group=Burren&menuentry=soorten&id=148

    Says it is widespread in the west of Ireland. It is possibly protected. Pics look fabulous if you google images.

    Des


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