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| | Royal Horticultural Society - Publications: The Orchid Review May-June 2003 |
 | | From the Mediterranean selection, I would only suggest two species that are likely to be successful, given the availability of suitable habitats. |
 | | Anacamptis pyramidalis, requires dryish, calcareous grassland, preferably on a slope. |
 | | Anacamptis (Orchis) laxiflora, naturally lives in moist to marshy ground, from the Channel Isles southward, but is fully hardy in the UK and has been very successfully established, from plants bred at RGB Kew, in Wakehurst Place (and in my former garden in Oxford!) Another one that might thrive, in similar circumstances to |
| www.rhs.org.uk /publications/orchidreview/orchid0503/nativeorchids.asp (3089 words) |
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