My Anacamptis laxiflora is now starting to fade. It has been wonderful having such a gorgeous (nearly) native orchid not just surviving but thriving in my care. I thought that I had lost all my pictures due to a careless bit of disk copying but have just found this little beauty:
Makes it all worthwhile...
I also found a picture showing the weird budding of the Ophrys sphegodes plant which is currently drying out and getting ready for being put to bed for summer. In fact, i think the flower is starting to flower already here.
It did not preceed any further than this. One suggestion from the immensely helpful Terrorchid forum is that I should try planting it more deeply next year, indicated by this year's tuber being significantly lower than the previous one - I will certainly give this a go, but I also think I got the balance of watering wrong, and erred too far on the side of caution in my fear of losing another Ophrys to rot. So tricky...
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