Showing posts with label neottia ovata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neottia ovata. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 July 2013
A PYRAMID AMONG BLADES
I spotted a fourth species of Orchid at this site with these appearing, though late, Pyramidal Orchids among the Common Twayblade Orchids.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
A PYRAMID AMONG TWAYS AND SPOTS
A surprise here when I spot a Pyramidal Orchid among the Common Twayblades.
Already seen Common Spotted and one of the Marsh Orchids at this site. Possibly both Marsh Orchids too but not right for Bee Orchids, even if they tried to plant them, lol.
So at least 4 species here which is a surprise as last year kept drawing a blank and thought they had all died out, lol!
Spitting them this year coincided with me sitting two guys from park authority bent over in the meadow looking like they were planting new ones, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CstLTMGOEk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
VIDEOS OF TWAYBLADE ORCHIDS - NEOTTIA OVATA
Some videos of the Common Twayblade Orchid, Neottia ovata.
One has Common Spotted Orchid amongst them, Dactylorhiza fuchsii.
Saturday, 29 June 2013
DAY OF THE ORCHIDS - THE COMMON TWAYBLADE ORCHID - NEOTTIA OVATA
Well finally!!!
After several years of searching this one down I finally nail it down to a day it is in flower that turns out to be a day of breaking some personal records that still remind me today with very stiff muscles in my legs, lol.
The name Twayblade means two leaves, which are egg shaped and reflected in their species name of ovata which is Latin fir egg. Ovata is referring then to the egg shaped leaves of which there are only two.
Very small green flowers you could easily miss and was right by. Only when you look more closely does that almost unmistakable Orchid look of the flowers stand out.
Hopefully I will get another chance this year to get a bit more on these and never thought to get a video of them on the day, lol dumb-arse.
Oddly I was expecting the two leaves to be flush with the ground due to some pictures I had remembered seeing or very close to it. These leaves were up higher than I actually thought they would be though I do have a theory on it being so much long grass, lol.
I also know for a fact they are spreading to an area where there is NO grass?! In fact I am pretty sure I had already taken photos of younger plants I had wagered were Twayblades and posted them up on here?! These plants were nowhere near these ones, a couple of feet higher elevation, therefore drier, and in a very public accessible area. I have not seen them this year though.
I do really like these Orchids and they are unusual to me in many ways. Inconspicuous until you take a closer look, delicate colours of very slight red edging in jade like flowers and those two leaves. Several years I waited to see these and I am pleased to say they have not disappointed me indeed quite the opposite in fact.
After several years of searching this one down I finally nail it down to a day it is in flower that turns out to be a day of breaking some personal records that still remind me today with very stiff muscles in my legs, lol.
The name Twayblade means two leaves, which are egg shaped and reflected in their species name of ovata which is Latin fir egg. Ovata is referring then to the egg shaped leaves of which there are only two.
Very small green flowers you could easily miss and was right by. Only when you look more closely does that almost unmistakable Orchid look of the flowers stand out.
Hopefully I will get another chance this year to get a bit more on these and never thought to get a video of them on the day, lol dumb-arse.
Oddly I was expecting the two leaves to be flush with the ground due to some pictures I had remembered seeing or very close to it. These leaves were up higher than I actually thought they would be though I do have a theory on it being so much long grass, lol.
I also know for a fact they are spreading to an area where there is NO grass?! In fact I am pretty sure I had already taken photos of younger plants I had wagered were Twayblades and posted them up on here?! These plants were nowhere near these ones, a couple of feet higher elevation, therefore drier, and in a very public accessible area. I have not seen them this year though.
I do really like these Orchids and they are unusual to me in many ways. Inconspicuous until you take a closer look, delicate colours of very slight red edging in jade like flowers and those two leaves. Several years I waited to see these and I am pleased to say they have not disappointed me indeed quite the opposite in fact.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
ORCHID DAY PREVIEW OF BREAKING RECORDS
Right now my neck is killing me and I am very knackered and yet I am about to go out...AGAIN!
Only THIS time I am going on foot and leaving the dreaded BIKE here as I have been out on it for HOURS and HOURS!!
But I thought I would explain why and where I was while out and about on my bike.
I dragged myself out on the bike and cycled up to my usual visits and had not intended to go that far and was going to do many things while I was out.
Only Location number one where I was hoping to get one species of Orchid I had not seen there for a couple of weeks not only had it in abundance but shock of shocks while photographing I then spy something out the corner of my eye and bugger me gently over a table it is a second species?! I had they were there but not seen one in 6 years of looking?!
Not only that but as I am looking for more of the abundant species I only go and find a THIRD species?!
Then I head off to location two thinking bloody hell I have just got shots of THREE SPECIES of British Orchids and I have not reached the main park yet?! I then think if I get to the next one and get that other elusive species this will be four?! Plus if any others are among them them maybe 5?!
Then I decide to keep on going, not good as I had not eaten anything or drank much, to see if I can hit some personal record for not only seeing but getting snap shots of many species in just one outing?!
I get that fourth species and get a few others at the same site!!
So then I go off to Location 3 and get a load of photographs and then off to Location 4 and to my surprise there are more Orchids than I have seen in years at these spots.
So in all I got snapshots of 6 species of Orchid all in flower at the same time on the same day...JUST ABOUT!
Did look for Early Purple at one location I thought I had seen them before to make 7 species but to no avail.
I am knackered right now and I have a painfully stiff....NECK! LOL.
This is because I just finished editing all the photographs to prepare for posting up and had to place them into individual folders for each of the locations!
I also got a few other things too like several Poppies and a Blue Butterfly including a few videos of it?!
The Blue Butterfly was another achievement I had wanted for sometime and now other types of Blue Butterflies are my goal as well as many other species of Butterfly too.
So that is what my focus will turn to now and that is Butterflies and Insects and hopefully some bid species thrown in from time to time.
So over the weekend is going to be a series of like a dozen posts, at a guess lol, of the 129 photos (about 25% of what I took) that I have edited!
Only THIS time I am going on foot and leaving the dreaded BIKE here as I have been out on it for HOURS and HOURS!!
But I thought I would explain why and where I was while out and about on my bike.
I dragged myself out on the bike and cycled up to my usual visits and had not intended to go that far and was going to do many things while I was out.
Only Location number one where I was hoping to get one species of Orchid I had not seen there for a couple of weeks not only had it in abundance but shock of shocks while photographing I then spy something out the corner of my eye and bugger me gently over a table it is a second species?! I had they were there but not seen one in 6 years of looking?!
Not only that but as I am looking for more of the abundant species I only go and find a THIRD species?!
Then I head off to location two thinking bloody hell I have just got shots of THREE SPECIES of British Orchids and I have not reached the main park yet?! I then think if I get to the next one and get that other elusive species this will be four?! Plus if any others are among them them maybe 5?!
Then I decide to keep on going, not good as I had not eaten anything or drank much, to see if I can hit some personal record for not only seeing but getting snap shots of many species in just one outing?!
I get that fourth species and get a few others at the same site!!
So then I go off to Location 3 and get a load of photographs and then off to Location 4 and to my surprise there are more Orchids than I have seen in years at these spots.
So in all I got snapshots of 6 species of Orchid all in flower at the same time on the same day...JUST ABOUT!
Did look for Early Purple at one location I thought I had seen them before to make 7 species but to no avail.
I am knackered right now and I have a painfully stiff....NECK! LOL.
This is because I just finished editing all the photographs to prepare for posting up and had to place them into individual folders for each of the locations!
I also got a few other things too like several Poppies and a Blue Butterfly including a few videos of it?!
The Blue Butterfly was another achievement I had wanted for sometime and now other types of Blue Butterflies are my goal as well as many other species of Butterfly too.
So that is what my focus will turn to now and that is Butterflies and Insects and hopefully some bid species thrown in from time to time.
So over the weekend is going to be a series of like a dozen posts, at a guess lol, of the 129 photos (about 25% of what I took) that I have edited!
Thursday, 6 June 2013
COMMON TWAYBLADE ORCHID - NEOTTIA OVATA
FINALLY?!?!
The Common Twayblade Orchid, Neottia ovata species name means egg and must refer to the egg shaped leaves.
And YES it IS there!! Lol.
Right now rubbish pictures and no flowers but a lot more to come on Orchids and much more to get on these guys too!
Now I know where they are hiding!!
Oh and I DO believe I spotted them before too!
I also had a chat with a guy who was working down there and I think I recognised his mate who refused to come over to me, lol. Once gentlemen called Derek, was a nice chap and I could see he was passionate about them. We talked about the different sites and it was not until he was passing me in their car and waved when I noticed the driver was that rude TWAT from a few weeks before?!?!
LMAO, no wonder he would not come over and I had not even had words with him either, deciding to bite my tongue instead!! I also now know that the TWATS name is Andy, lol.
Derek was cool though and more in a later post.
The Common Twayblade Orchid, Neottia ovata species name means egg and must refer to the egg shaped leaves.
And YES it IS there!! Lol.
Right now rubbish pictures and no flowers but a lot more to come on Orchids and much more to get on these guys too!
Now I know where they are hiding!!
Oh and I DO believe I spotted them before too!
I also had a chat with a guy who was working down there and I think I recognised his mate who refused to come over to me, lol. Once gentlemen called Derek, was a nice chap and I could see he was passionate about them. We talked about the different sites and it was not until he was passing me in their car and waved when I noticed the driver was that rude TWAT from a few weeks before?!?!
LMAO, no wonder he would not come over and I had not even had words with him either, deciding to bite my tongue instead!! I also now know that the TWATS name is Andy, lol.
Derek was cool though and more in a later post.
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