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27-06-2015 16:03:11
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Kept forgetting to look but remembered today!! The bee orchid rosettes along the grass verge nr the entrance WWT Slimbridge are back out again - a quick count this evening produced 20 plants but no doubt there are more lurking in the grass Slimbridge Sightings


Bee and Pyramidal Orchids in leaf on the front lawn/meadow. Cambs. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland


A 2025 season Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula) rosette has appeared in my garden today, 20/11/2024, here in north-east #Hampshire. #orchids Wild Orchids UK & Ireland European Orchids & Wildflowers HBIC BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland




Having a read of My 1951 copy Wild Orchids of Britain by V.S.Summerhayes came across this lovely photo byE.J .Bedford coloured by hand of Summer Ladies Tresses from Hampshire ( know sadly extinct ) Wild Orchids UK & Ireland


A few days left of 2024 & there's still time to enter the BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland fundraising lottery, to win a place on our #orchid hunting holiday in Rhodes, Greece. Tickets are £10 each & 100% goes to the charity to fund their valuable work. Enter here... bsbi.org/greenwings-hol…


Fond of orchids? Fancy some monkey business this evening? We're talking monkey orchids! Sign up for our free online Winter Talk at 7.30pm tonight. It's by David Roberts from University of Kent on 'The curious case of the man, the lady & the monkey': tickettailor.com/events/botanic…



It's the South #Croydon Lizard #Orchid on its way back for 2025! Wild Orchids UK & Ireland Moira O'Donnell 🏴 Paul Jarrett Brian Hodgkin, ML The Croydon Birder


The whorls of a new bee #orchid colony They start to come into leaf so early in the season. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland


Orchis canariensis at various locations around Tenerife: Teno, Anaga and Aguamansa approx 700-900m. 2-3-2025 Wild Orchids UK & Ireland



BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Wild Orchids UK & Ireland well this the best birthday find 4 me. After 15 years I say trying 2 find one and yes I have been a bit obsessed with the plant and on a mission to find 1. I've finally found a lizard orchid rosette in Northamptonshire. Bingo!



A way to go yet but nice to see Early Spider and Early Purple orchid rosettes forming, Durlston CP Dorset Wildlife Trust Dorset Wildlife Spot Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

