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24/5/25 Cumbria - The Birds Nest #Orchid is a funny-looking thing, lacking chlorophyll and therefore being almost wholly reliant on mycoheterophy for its sustenance. This is the only reliable population I know from this county and it's near a cracking chippie, too #wildflowerhour

Several white helleborines seen today, this one with a visiting bumble bee was on Chiltern Society Whiteleaf Hill. #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

24/5/25 Cumbria - Some more fine examples of one of our finest #orchid species, the Sword-Leaved Helleborine (Cephalanthera longifolia). Seen with my good friend and stellar botanist David Morris #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour Fly orchids - a bit small in S. Cumbria, and an odd tall one. Hope the rain in NW has perked them up.

Definitely a day of 2 halves yesterday - The morning spent admiring Burnt Tip and Military orchids, whilst the afternoon was a 5 hour war of attrition spent at Dungeness tracking down the Eastern Bonelli's warbler.

A gorgeous day of alpine plants today. Moss Campion and a trio of Saxifrages (Starry, Mossy and Tufted) 😍 Also saw Purple and Alpine who weren't flowering. #wildflowerhour

Bee Orchid alert A few spikes in Preston. Numbers down on last year but a handful of good looking plants BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sean Cole

Come and join me for #orchids on our guaranteed departure to Cyprus at the beginning of March next year! It's a perfect opportunity to fill your boots with spectacular endemics, well before the UK #orchid scene gets going. mariposanature.com/tours/botanica…

From a single marsh orchid in 2022, this rare example of remnant lowland meadow in Netherley now has 28 flowering! <10,000ha of this remains in Britain which makes expanding naturally wildflower rich spaces like this so important🌱❤️ Liverpool City Council BelleValeCouncillors Carl Cashman

Noar Hill last Monday. Duke of Burgundy, Small Blue, worn Common Blue(?) and Green Hairstreak butterflies distracted me from the orchids Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Greater Butterfly Orchids are out and doing well on Llynllys Common, Shropshire. Rebecca Wheeler, Dr Richard Bate , Rebecca Wheeler, Christian Hindle , Duncan Dine, European Orchids & Wildflowers, Janette, 🍀dinesh patel 🦋

My last photos from Noar Hill. Three different plants of yellow Fly orchids including the one that had been flatterned. And just because the rangers had collected all the corrugated iron sheets doesn't mean that they aren't worth a look Slow Worms. Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Heath Spotted Orchid is a rare beast in the Cotswolds , so considering how dry it’s been nice to see a small flush of about thirty plants. , with views to the Malverns in the background

29/5/25 Cumbria - A nice pair of #orchid species at CP_UK_whinfell; Creeping Ladies Tresses (plus rust) (Goodyera repens) looking good for early July and Broad-Leaved Helleborines (Epipactis helleborine). Surprised not to find Lesser Twayblades though BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #wildflowerhour

Long old haul from North Devon to Kent. Stopped on A303 to see this beauty. Four days of hunting Kent's finest orchids and meeting up with lovely old friends Dr Richard Bate Jon Dunn 🇺🇦 Janette James Hunter May possibly have something for this Sunday's wildflowerhour 😁

I have friends who farm near Andoversford Gloucestershire , initially very excited with this clump and I mean clump of White Helleborines, initially thought stumbled across longifolia , it is damasonium, between two silver birch in a shelter belt , new for there farm

Well I'm just walking down the road and I think 'I wonder if there's any orchids growing in that abandoned building?'. Voila one Southern Marsh Orchid. Dr Richard Bate Gareth Lambe

Southern Marsh Orchids near Chester. Over 125 seen in small area. Rebecca Wheeler Duncan Dine 🍀dinesh patel 🦋 Janette Dr Richard Bate Christian Hindle Sylvatica