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Ophrys apifera is blooming in France.
These tiny plants are hardy, very discrete in the wild. I think these are quite numerous but ( happily ) very unnoticed. I just find them so adorable and feel lucky to have this one bloom for second time in three years. Two spikes !

This cultivar produces fantastic full-formed and wonderfully-fragrant flamingo-pink flowers, and is one of the best of this highly awarded grex. It received AM/AOS in 1992. This is a very healthy backbulb division with 4 old leafed growths and a nice new start. Flower pics are of this exact plant on a previous blooming. This is an original division, not a mericlone. The roots ar...

Another angle of this concolor showing the blooms on the other side of the plant.

Blooming on a tiny plant imported bareroot 2 months ago. Looking forward to the next blooms on a stronger plant.

Finally getting big again after some setbacks.