JHOS Spring 2024 Vol.21 No.2

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Cover Photograph
Neil Hubbard’s Ophrys tenthredinifera
by Jon Evans

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
39
Chairman’s Note
Celia Wright
40
Field Trips March 2024
41
Results of HOS Plant Show 2024
46
Rewilding and Other Modes of Ecological Restoration,
as Viewed From the Perspective of a Hardy Orchid
Richard Bateman
50
Orchid Meadows and Rewilding
Bill Temple
58
Puzzling Platantheras
Richard Mielcarek
63
Monkton Nature Reserve: Reflections on a Former Rubbish Tip
James Douglas Bonthron
68

JHOS Winter 2024 Vol.21 No.1

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Cover Photograph
Neotinea ustulata
by Janet Hail

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
3
Chairman’s Note
Celia Wright
4
Hardy Orchid Society Constitution
5
Field Trip Update 2024
7
Results of Photographic Competition 2023
8
Wild Orchids of Málaga: Book Review
15
Current Status of Botanical Recording in Britain and Ireland
Richard Bateman
16
The Orchid Outlaw: Book Review
Richard Kulczycki
31
Low Force and High Force
Alec Latham
33
HOS Seed Sowing Workshop
35
     
     

JHOS Autumn 2023 Vol.20 No.4

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Cover Photograph:
Neotinea ×dietrichiana with parents N. tridentata and N. ustulata
by Johan Hermans

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
111
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
112
Creating an Orchid Meadow Using Seed
Dave & Jean Trudgill
114
The Fabulous Orchids of the Vercors, South-east France:
Part 2 Mickey and His Promiscuous Friends
Clare & Johan Hermans
128
Narrow-lipped Helleborine (Epipactis leptochila): a Newly Discovered Orchid Species for Bedfordshire
Richard & Geraldine Hogg
138
     

JHOS Summer 2023 Vol.20 No.3

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Cover Photograph:
Orchis italica
by Neil Hubbard

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
75
Chairman’s Note
Celia Wright
76
Occurrence in Kent of Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. rhodochila,
the anthocyanin-rich form of the Common Spotted-orchid
David Johnson
77
HOS Photographic Competition 2023
82
2023 Video Competition
83
Broad-leaved Helleborine at Monkton Nature Reserve
83
Results of HOS Plant Show 2023
83
The fabulous orchids of the Vercors, South-east France
Part 1 Introducing the orchids of Vercors
Clare & Johan Hermans
90
Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in the UK
Richard Kulczycki
98
Spring Orchids on Crete
Colin & Angela Scrutton
102

JHOS Spring 2023 Vol.20 No.2

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Cover Photograph:
Platanthera chlorantha
by Gillian Elsom

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
39
Chairman’s Note
Celia Wright
40
Field Trips 2023
Richard Kulczycki
41
Growing Hardy Orchids - 7 Moira Tarrant talks to Neil Hubbard
Moira Tarrant
43
Results of Photographic Competition 2022
48
Addendum to the Orchid Section of the New British and Irish Plant Atlas
Richard Bateman
54
2022 Field Trip Reports
Richard Kulczycki
58
Colony of Unusual Bee Orchids in Wiltshire
66
2023 Video Competition
  
70

JHOS Winter 2023 Vol.20 No.1

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Cover Photograph:
Pink Butterfly Orchid with Dwarf Yellow Iris
by Paul Harcort Davies

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
3
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
4
Early 2023 Field Trips
4
HOS Meetings 2023
5
2023 Plant Show Information
5
HOS Seed Sowing Workshop
Richard Bateman
5
Cumbria Field Trips in June 2022
Carol Armstrong & Alan Gendle
6
Gargano – Forty Years On and Even More
Paul Harcourt Davies
8
Changes in Orchid Numbers in England Since 1950
David Trudgill
28

JHOS Autumn 2022 Vol.19 No.4

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Cover Photograph:
Carousel Spider Orchid
by Colin Scrutton

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
111
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
112
HOS Field Trips
112
HOS Photographic Competition 2022
113
Results of HOS Plant Show 2022
114
Out of the Frying Pan? Predicting the British and Irish Orchid Flora
of the late 21st Century
Richard Bateman
119
Australian Spider Orchids
Colin & Angela Scrutton
132
The HOS Informative Photographic Display
143
     



Cover Photograph:
Carousel Spider Orchid
by Colin Scrutton

JHOS Summer 2022 Vol.19 No.3

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Cover Photograph:
Ophrys apifera var. chlorantha
by Johan Hermans

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
75
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
76
The Many Colour Forms of Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris)
Richard Mielcarek
77
HOS Video Competition 2022
85
Altitude and Orchids
Steve Tandy
86
HOS Photographic Competition 2022
89
Remembering Bryan Yorke
Carol Armstrong
89
Small White Orchid
Ingrid Katarina Karlsson
90
The Recovering Orchids of Delphi
Phillip Cribb
92
Hardy Orchids of the Far East
Clare Hermans
96
     

JHOS Spring 2022 Vol.19 No.2

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Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
39
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
40
Erratum: The Tiptree Tongue Orchids
41
Malvern International Orchid Show
41
Field Trips 2022
42
Hardy Orchid Society Conservation Grants
45
Dactylorhiza ‘Black Death’
John Scrace, RHS
46
HOS Seed Sowing Workshop
53
Dactylorhiza Black Death
Bill Temple
54
The “Yellow” Fly Orchid Ophrys insectifera var. ochroleuca in Kent
David Johnson
55
Seed and Seed Pod Dimensions as an Aid to Identifying Orchids in Fruit
Terry Swainbank
58
Sojourns in Cyprus
Colin & Angela Scrutton
65
HOS Video Competition 2022
71
     
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Cover Photograph:
Ophrys insectifera var. ochroleuca
by Mike Chalk

JHOS Winter 2022 Vol.19 No.1

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Cover Photograph:
Goodyera repens
by Gillian Elsom



     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
3
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
4
Results of Photographic Competition 2021
6
Cumbria Field Trip ̶ July 2021
Alan Gendle
12
The Tiptree Tongue Orchids
Jonathan Greenwood
17
The Broader Benefits of a HOS Site Visit
Sue Parker
25
Field Trips – Back to the Future
Richard Kulczycki
28

JHOS Christmas 2021 Vol.18 No.5

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Cover Photograph:
Cyprepedium Dietrich
by Phillip Cribb

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
147
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
148
More about Epipogium roseum
Isobyl la Croix
148
All the British and Irish Orchids
Ian Phillips
149
Cypripedium AGM Trial
Clare Hermans and Phillip Cribb
152
Some Orchids of Southern France: A Baker’s Dozen and a Few of Their Friends
Gordon James
163
Goldilocks – A New Forest Beauty
Vincent Blood
177


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Cover Photograph:
Cyprepedium Dietrich
by Phillip Cribb

JHOS Autumn 2021 Vol.18 No.4

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Cover Photograph:
Monkey Orchid
(Orchis simia)
by Neil Hubbard

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
111
Chairman’s Note
Carol Armstrong
112
HOS Video Competition 2021
113
Kidlington Arrangements November 2021
113
Results of HOS Summer Plant Show 2021
114
Temperature and Orchids 2: Development and Distribution
David Trudgill
118
Turkish delight by Colin & Angela Scrutton
Colin & Angela Scrutton
128
HOS Seed Bank 2021
139
The Other Ghost: Epipogium roseum (D. Don) Lindl.
John Grimshaw
139

JHOS Summer 2021 Vol.18 No.3

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Cover Photograph:
Ghost Orchid
(Epipogium aphyllum)
by Rainar Kurbel

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
75
Chairman's Note
Carol Armstrong
76
Results of HOS Plant Show 2021
76
Some Remarkable Observations of the Ghost Orchid
(Epipogium aphyllum) in Estonia
Rainar Kurbel
80

Erratum: Ghost in the Valley
93
Talks at Meetings 2021
Celia Wright
93
Video Competition 2021
94
Photographic Competition & Informative Photographic Display
94
An unusual Epipactis helleborine mutation
Steve Tandy
96
Anthocyanin-rich Dactylorhiza maculata, Heath Spotted-orchid
Richard Laurence
98
David Christopher Lang (1935-2020)
Phillip Cribb
104
Epipactis ×bruxelles: Hybrid Between Broad-leaved Helleborine
and Green-flowered Helleborine
Grahame Preston
106

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Cover Photograph:
Ghost Orchid
(Epipogium aphyllum)
by Rainar Kurbel

JHOS Spring 2021 Vol.18 No.2

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Cover Photograph:
Lady's-slipper Orchid
by Gillian Elsom

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
39
Chairman's Note
Carol Armstrong
40
Orchid Summer Plant Show
John Haggar
40
The Lady's-slipper Orchid in 1930's: a Family Secret Revealed
Paul Redshaw
41

I Will Have To Come Back Next Year 4: Ghost in the Valley
Rosemary Webb
48
Ophrys apifera var. cambrensis; a First Record for Kent
David Johnson
54
Field Trips 2021
Richard Kulczycki
56
Balkan Beauties: Book Review
Richard Bateman
59
The Rise and Fall and Possible Rebirth of a Conservation Project
Svante Malmgren & Bill Temple
62
Video Competition at Leeds, 4th September 2021
70

JHOS Winter 2021 Vol.18 No.1

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Cover Photograph:
Dockrillia fairfaxii
by Colin Scrutton

     
Editorial Note
Mike Gasson
3
Chairman's Note
Carol Armstrong
4
HOS Meetings 2021
4
Seed Sowing Workshop 2021
4

Field Trips 2021
5
Plant Show 2021
5
Results of Photographic Competition 2020
6
Australian Epiphytes and Lithophytes
Colin & Angela Scrutton
14
The First Summer of a Novice Orchidian
Nick Morgan
24
Epipactis leptochila var. cordata
Mike Clark
26
A Rare ‘Green’ Lizard Orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum,
Appears At Sandwich Bay, Kent
David Johnson
28
Lockdown
Rosemary Webb
30
Wales’ Irish Lady’s-tresses Re-visited
Sue Parker
35

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Cover Photograph:
Dockrillia fairfaxii
by Colin Scrutton