Orchis canariensis

[Secundino]

The first local Orchis begin to flower. Sometimes considered to be Orchis patens var. canariensis. Can be nearly pure white to pink. Up in the mountains from 800m to nearly 2000m.

Lots of Greenovia aurea ready to bloom, too.

 

[Ozpaph]

thank-you.
I thought it would be yellow given the name

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice garden!

 

[abax]

I haven't seen so many healthy looking succulents in a
long time. I can't see the flowers particularly well, but
it seems to resemble our native Fringed Orchid in shape.

 

[Secundino]

thank-you.
I thought it would be yellow given the name

You mean this one:

(poor thing, most are not yellow)

or this one:

:rollhappy:

 

[Ozpaph]

My mental image is of yellow canaries.
And that's a budgie!

 

[Secundino]

Yep! Long way to fly ...

 

[NYEric]

I so want to get some Orchis here. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Happypaphy7]

OMG, so cute, is that a white finch with a special hairdo??

 

[Don I]

Beautiful. It looks like someones garden.
Don

 

[Don I]

OMG, so cute, is that a white finch with a special hairdo??

That's a canary with a Hank Snow hair cut.
Don

 

[Secundino]

These flown-away birds - and some others - are eventual guests. I'll never try to capture them, though they enter into the flat, cause I have no space to keep them as they should, or they are far too noisy (Agapornis). Those who stay for longer get water and feed, most just are a few hours around. The crested canary could have been quite expensive.

 

[naoki]

Very nice! Are the photos from your garden or from the wild? Canary Islands must be an amazing place to be!

 

[Secundino]

These Orchis are growing high in the mountains, at about 1500m altitude. There are a many steep ravines and cliffs, where lots of endemic plants - like Greenovia, Aeonium, Monanthes etc. - form a really amazing 'stone-garden'. In summer all looks like bone dry, but with the first rains, all gets green. Now is the beginning of our short springtime.

 

[Secundino]

Most plants are flowering now, and a few quite easy to access.

 

[Migrant13]

Gorgeous, thanks for sharing these.

 

[abax]

Gorgeous markings on that plant. The singing around
your island must be wonderful right now.

 

[cnycharles]

Beautiful flowers, thanks for sharing

 

[NYEric]

I thought those orchis were in captivity. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Secundino]

Thanks! There are a few more photographs in my blog, verdemaravilloso.