Habenaria radiata
Archive entry 16.09.07
Archive entry 11.08.08
Archive entry 30.08.09
22nd July 2007
These poor little orchids are still available from the dry bulb merchants. Most of them are doomed to death by dessication. They need seriously boggy conditions - my
best plants have always been grown in sphagnum moss, but even then it seems to be short lived. I keep hoping that I will get conditions just right one day, and it will increase year on year.
If I had been wearing my thinking head, I would have cut the flower off of this one while it established, but I wasn't thinking, and now it is dead!
14th September 2007
17th August 2008
turns out I was wrong about its deadness! It hasn't increased much from last year, but it has come back stronger, so it is making progress.
29th August 2009