ORCHIDS

What kind of soil do you have Sheilar? When you dug them up was the root a tuber? I have this in the garden and I would like to give someone a piece of it but I am worried about disturbing it and losing it if I try to split it.

Well done you! This is gorgeous!

Scotsgran, dunno what sort of soil we've got but can't grow azaleas, rhodedendrons and hydrangeas (apart from a climbing hydrangea). But we've a magnolia that does OK and a camelia which is ?sort of OK (hasn't flowered this year but could be due to the bad winter). When I took the orchids from the tub, I just lifted them wholesale into the hole dug in the border so I don't know whether it was a tuber or not. Hope this makes sense to you.

lovely

Thanks Sheilar. I just wondered.Doesn't sound like acid soil which rhodos love. I do that, just empy pots into the garden wholesale. It is easier than separating everything out. It does make for interesting combinations at times. I bought a white plant at an Open Garden last year. It had a weed? which looked very like a phlox seedling so I planted the lot. It is a lilac phlox and is a good companion to the white Astrantia Shaggy. I'll have to visit again and get a name for it.

oh its lovely and my fav colour lilac !

Meadowland, as I said in previous (above) comment, I transferred the whole lot from a tub without disturbing the roots so I don't know whether they're bulbs or not. (These are 'wild' orchids by the way).