CRANEFLY ORCHID Tipularia discolor

[johnblagg]

just for a little change of pace here is my Cranefly orchid happly growing and getting bigger every year ......blooms are not impressive but who said its all about blooms the leaves on this one are beautiful too.

Contrary to what is often said about not growing well due to the need for a fungus ...."which it doen indeed need" I have never had a problem with the small native orchids here growing for me as long as I collected a small amount of the soil where they were growing and used it in the new soil to innoculate the fungus into the new soil....