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06/14/2011

Orchid flowering!

Well, after 6 years of bashing my head against a brick wall I have finally got a wild orchid to flower in the garden:
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Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii

 

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 Close up of Common Spotted Orchid

And the truth will out: I grew it in a pot - all the other ones perished!

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