While I am gearing up to start sowing my orchid seed I have doubled my collection of orchid plants by buying two tubers! I purchased an Ophrys apifera var. Trollii (Wasp Orchid - a mutation of the more common Bee Orchid which looks stunning) and an O. sphegodes (Early Spider Orchid) from Laneside Orchids. I am hopeful that I have learnt enough lessons from previous failures and will have success with these, as well as some other specimens I will soon be purchasing. They have been potted up in gritty wintergreen compost in clay pots and plunged in a damp sand plunge bed in the greenhouse.
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