Orchids

Mrs. K's hardy orchids.
Series 1, Number 1 A Knottman production in full Botanicolour.

This one is Cypripedium x Maria.
Not too difficult to grow if you can keep the slugs away when they first come through.
One or two varieties have not come through this year. We think it is because they need a few nights of hard frost in the winter to trigger growth. This year we had one night at -2 but apart from that hardly any frost at all.

The extra shows a close up of a couple of the blooms.