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3 years

Please take time to object to this planning application to build 221 houses on Britain's only site for Greater Tongue Orchid, as well as 600 Green-winged and several other species. Please retweet and share, instead of just liking 😃😃😃

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Around 20 Early Spider Orchids counted on the Dorset coast yesterday by @VincentBlood1 . The 2021 orchid season is open for business 👍👏👏 Nice use of a 20p coin, Vince 👍👍👍

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Incredible photos from central Portugal by Pedro Jesus: Early Purple Orchids growing 2m from the ground along the trunk of a large Oak. I've never seen anything remotely like this 😮😮😮😮😮

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GOOD NEWS! Tongue #orchids - a 🧵 The appeal by Kler Group, who planned to develop the Tiptree Serapias lingua site for housing, has been REJECTED, meaning the meadow has been saved! This is thanks primarily to Jonathan Greenwood of Tiptree Parish Council & Essex Wildlife Trust

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3 years

Big UK orchid news!! A single Monkey orchid has been discovered in the wild in Sussex, first county record and only the third native UK site. Well done to Natasha, the finder 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Here's one from Oxfordshire this weekend just gone.

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5 years

Amazing news!!! A colony of 8 plants of Irish Lady's Tresses has been found in a bog in North Wales, the first record for the country! Flowering has finished already, but access is being arranged for visitors next year 😮😮😮👏👏👏👍👍👍🍻

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7 years

Lady's Slipper flowering nicely at Gait Narrows. Great photo by Mark Rossell

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1 year

In Kent, the first Early Purple Orchid is open today, 25th March, with 4 flowers having opened in the last week! Modelled by @PhlebiaRadiata

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7 years

A colony of 40+ Serapias lingua has been discovered in Essex by James Pickerin. On private land. Potentially natural occurrence. Pics by JP

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2 years

Yesterday, THIS happened in Anglesey!!!! The prettiest Orchid I have ever seen in the UK or Ireland, an absolute bobby dazzler. Having to stand with one foot each on separate tussocks, separated by deep muddy marsh, meant getting a photo was a bit wobbly, and at arm's length!

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10 months

"I'm only a poor Lesser Twayblade, with leaves really tiny and twin." Highly underrated, this little impish beauty needs more recognition. Retweet if you agree!

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3 years

Incredibly, a FOURTH species of Serapias has been discovered flowering in England, this S. cordigera was growing in an unmown garden in Yorkshire. Not very likely to be naturally occurring, but goes to show what comes up when you say no to the mow! (Photographer undisclosed)

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8 years

Amazing pic by Jeremy Holden of Fragrant Orchid in a storm, Bedfordshire.

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1 year

Just found this photo of Coralroot Orchid from the Highlands taken in 2019, and I quite liked the dark background on it highlighting the delicacy of the plant. What do you think?

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3 years

A sea of white: Small White Orchids from the Highlands today. Incredible numbers this year, this site must hold as many flowering plants as the rest of the UK combined. Absolutely Incredible. #wildflowerhour

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Extremely pleased to find not one, but two hybrid Bee x Late Spider Orchids in E Kent yesterday, 23rd June - only the second time I have seen this hybrid! Both had swollen ovaries! It has been a good year for Late Spider in Kent, with nearly 400 flowering spikes across all sites.

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2 years

A small population of Giant Orchid was discovered in Oxfordshire on Saturday by @HamzNobes . They originate from seed scattered by hand, but have established and are reproducing vegetatively and by pollination. Although not natural, they are naturalised already. A great find!

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The Oxfordshire Giant Orchids aren't far behind those on the Continent, opening early this year, presumably due to the unseasonably warm and damp spell. Photos @HamzNobes

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4 years

What a relief to get out locally yesterday evening. Beautiful weather, a deserted woodland walk full of early purple orchids and bluebells and a fantastic sunset over a Worcestershire village green. With some beautiful village green-winged orchids 😊 And - breathe....

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GREAT NEWS for a change. Fen #orchid has had an excellent year, with numbers now well over 1000 in S Wales, a record count of 1327 at one Norfolk site (only 9 there in 2000), and the first flowering of the introduced Suffolk population. All thanks to great management work. 👍👍👍

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5 years

Possibly the most lovely group of Ladies I've ever seen - apart from those who run #wildflowerhour of course 😍

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The hyperchromic plant on the left has gone....either picked or dug up. There is evidence of a lot of human activity around the spot where it grew & no livestock in the area. I am reconsidering my policy with regard to the sharing of orchid sites.

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Heath Spotted Orchid is good at any time, however many you see. But when they get anthocyanin overload, they get SEXY! Eternal thanks to Mick Lacey for these stunners - Derbyshire, this weekend just gone.

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5 years

Calypso bulbosa is rumoured to occur in Scotland, though where the story started is hard to discover. If it were true, I suspect it would get a few visitors! This one was taken near the arctic circle in Finland back in 2008.

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5 years

#wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge Common Spotted Orchid is possibly our commonest species, but it is beautifully patterned when you look closely. 😍

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6 years

Incredibly, Frog #orchids are still in fresh flower in Surrey. And some are still in bud! IT'S OCTOBER!! Photo courtesy Jon Wilson.

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Heath Spotted Orchid is good at any time, however many you see. But when they get anthocyanin overload, they get SEXY! Eternal thanks to Mick Lacey for these stunners - Derbyshire, this weekend just gone.

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2 years

Anyone for one final, gorgeous Early Purple of the season before those pesky Marsh Orchids turn our brains into a purple mush of confusion?

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2 years

IN LOVE 🥰 This Small White x Heath Fragrant Orchid was a long-awaited first for me today in Scotland.

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6 years

The wet spring has continued into early May, following a cold winter. Conditions supposedly optimum for Ghost #Orchid to flower. This really could be the year, imagine if it was you who found it!! Please help by volunteering to search as part of @ghostorchiduk

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Early Purple Orchid now out in Kent. The March trio complete! Photo @PhlebiaRadiata

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The missing link: these three Ophrys hybrids in Dorset have a story to tell. If only they could talk, though, as how they got there will never be known. One of the parent species, Ophrys scolopax, isn't even native to Britain. Beautiful nonetheless 😍

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Beauty parade 😍 Green-winged Orchids (Anacamptis morio) of all colours and styles, sometimes in a single plant! Worcestershire has several fantastic sites for this species. #wildflowerhour

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10 months

Thanks for sharing this, @BrennanMartine ! Ireland's third(?) record of DUNE HELLEBORINE! Right in Dublin City Centre! @BSBI_Ireland

Orchids in Dublin city centre thanks to 'No Mow May'

Two species of orchids have been discovered growing on the campus of Trinity College in Dublin city centre, much to the surprise and delight of botanists.

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2 years

Beyond beautiful 😍 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 This hyperchromic Burnt Orchid from Estonia should be renamed Scorched Orchid! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Photo by kind permission of Rainar Kurbel.

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7 years

Nick Rowley took this brilliant pic of Common Spotted Orchids in the Peak District. Amazing!

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2 years

A remarkable count of 2,540 Greater Butterfly Orchids was made recently by the Vale Landscape Heritage Trust across several of their managed orchards in Worcestershire. A fantastic privilege to see these & other species yesterday 😀 great work 👍 they are proud of their orchids!

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FIRE UP THE QUATTRO! The 2019 UK #orchid flowering season has begun. Alan Smith found his first Early Spider in flower in Dorset yesterday, 18th March. The bottom flower has been open a few days already!

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8 months

There is a blanket ban on any more photos of Autumn Lady's Tresses on here. Except these 😁😂

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1 year

MEMORIES OF SPRING 2: Great day out in Kent with @Jamiewa50042387 , spending time also with @PhlebiaRadiata and @jelltex , the divine Lady Orchid at @KentWildlife Yockletts Bank. We also found a new population of Green-winged Orchids while there!

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Two specialities of North-East England - Dune Helleborine subspecies sancta on Lindisfarne, and hyperchromic Northern Marsh Orchid from Hartlepool, the latter sometimes called "atrata". #wildflowerhour

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More photos of the Ophrys hydrids from 21/4/24. I do like the term "flybrids"!

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4 years

Wet knees and dirty elbows are always a consequence of getting a photo of coralroot orchids in woodlands. @Leptochila demonstrates the additional skill of not losing your lens cap at the same time 😂

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Just found this old (and not particularly good) photo from 31st May 2003, showing two white form Burnt Orchids from their main Derbyshire site. These days the place still throws up pale ones but rarely without any purple, as with these. Stunners!

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2 years

Well, it IS 14th June after all! Dark Red Helleborine in flower today in North Lancs - usually a little earlier at this site than the standard July flowering, but this is early. 😮 Photo: Paul Harvey.

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Honorary orchid in Hampshire today. Mind blown by the sheer number of Devil's Fingers. Stinky, slimy, writhy, otherworldly weirdness!

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5 years

Apologies if you're bored of Lady Orchid photos. Here's another. 😀

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2 years

Just a Pyramidal Orchid in front of a Pyramid.

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Late Spider Orchids in Kent today, including a remarkable yellow one. It looks like a good year for this species in the UK despite weeks of hot dry weather baking the ground from which they grow.

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4 years

This site in Essex has seven species of orchid, including c700 Green-winged, and a naturalized population of Tongue orchid. Looks like it's about to be ploughed to make way for housing before any permission has been given. What can be done?

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Frog x Common Spotted Orchids from 2009 at Aston Rowant in the Chilterns. There's something special about this hybrid combination 😍😍😍

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2 years

It may not look much to the casual observer, but Dense-flowered Orchid is the main event on a visit to Ireland. Yesterday we counted 80+ on a spectacular hillside in Co. Fermanagh, today 17 more in an extensive dune system in Co. Donegal. Our timing was perfect too👌

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6 years

Spain day 3: it's been all about the Elderflowered #orchids in the northern mountains today.

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1 year

Memories of spring: Green-winged Orchids in Worcestershire last May. Won't be long ❤️

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3 years

For #wildflowerhour , a rather sharply-dressed Common Spotted Orchid

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11 months

Some orchids from recent trips out around the country. Need a rest now! We are moving past the season of pretty ones now and into the more subtle Helleborines...YAY!

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5 years

Chimera Green-winged Orchid in Worcestershire, definitely the craziest one I've ever seen! Thanks again @dip1951 #wildflowerhour

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5 years

Marsh Helleborine is beautiful close up. Thanks to @ladywalknature for letting me in to photograph them today. 👍👍👍👍👍

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2 years

What a day! 5 Frog x Common Spotted hybrids, and Lesser Butterfly growing next to Frogs??? Only in Wiltshire! #wildflowerhour

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Four from Akseki and Antalya, Turkey, 30/3/24: Orchis anatolica & punctulata, Ophrys lucis & "osmanica". @HamzNobes

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Frog x Northern Marsh in Cumbria. Hybrid with the excellent name Dactylorhiza x viridella. What a day! Found next to rocking horse poo.

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Pugsley's Marsh Orchid, Lesser Twayblade (quatroblade actually!), Dense-flowered and Early Marsh Orchids from NW Ireland over the last three days. This area is just full of orchids and other wildlife 😍☘️

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It's tough looking for orchids in Donegal 😍 @donnarainey4

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2 years

It's that time of year again...but I fear it has been too dry this season for a Ghost Orchid. Nonetheless, if we get more rain, I shall check the site where it was last recorded in 2009, as the anniversary is looming... This from Germany in the same year.

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5 years

Found by eagle eyes himself, @Leptochila , this beautiful hybrid is a Frog x Northern Marsh Orchid. Due to the richness of colour on other species on site, we await confirmation from the @BSBIbotany referee.

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11 months

Finally, this application has been rejected once and for all, and the site is safe from development. Now access and management need to be put into place to ensure the Tongue and other orchids thrive. Great news! 164 Tongue Orchids flowered this year.

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2 years

PLEASE HELP - SERAPIAS IN ESSEX Kler Group are appealing against Colchester's decision to refuse permission to build 221 houses on the only site in the UK for Greater Tongue Orchid. Even if you've already objected, PLEASE could you write again 🙏 THANK YOU, PLEASE SHARE!

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5 years

So many posters on here said their last orchid of the year was Autumn Lady's Tresses, so who would've thought that Ian Green's would've have been Creeping LT's??? Taken today, 1st October in Aberdeenshire, this species more typically flowers in July 😲

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2 years

RED HELLEBORINE, COTSWOLDS: been made aware that the new site discovered last year has failed to produce a flowering spike this season. The location is not being released by those looking after it. (Photo not of actual plant).

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3 years

Another early post for #wildflowerhour - a giant Common Spotted x Frog Orchid hybrid from yesterday in the rain and wind

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7 years

Work has started on Princeton's new "Britain's Orchids" which is a new concept in Orchid fieldguides. Here's a taster by Sarah Stribbling.

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3 years

Village Green-winged Orchids in Worcestershire today, 1/5/21. This village common was grazed during winter and the orchids have flourished, with more than 60 this year. Two years ago fewer than 10 flowered. Great result 👏👍👌

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2 years

Some rather mixed up Green-winged Orchids at Melrose Farm Meadows today, 2nd May. I wonder why this particular site throws up these "chimera" aberrations with such regularity?

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10 months

The 19 spikes of Irish Lady's Tresses are already going over in Wales, and are a lot less robust than last year. Marsh Helleborines at Ynyslas are all over, with barely a single flower left.

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1/2: My first search for a 2023 British Ghost Orchid will take place this weekend. To get us in the mood, a series of tweets on the history of its occurrence here. The first ever record was from the time of Edward Elgar on the border of Hereford and Worcester...

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5 years

Amazing! 5,000 orchid lovers now follow @ukorchids . Thanks everyone for the posts, tags, likes, shares and comments that keep everyone - including me - informed on what's going on in the world of UK orchids. Here's a Ghost Orchid to celebrate 🤗

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5 years

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis. An honorary orchid from the highlands of Scotland at the weekend. 😍

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4 years

FANTASTIC (I don't usually shout, but this really is with the upper case!)

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4 years

Epiphytic orchid at @BBOWT Dancersend! This Common spotted orchid was spied by eagle-eyed Zoe, one of the reserve volunteers, over 2m high in the fork of an ash tree. Now how did it find the right mycorrhiza up there? @LeifBersweden @BSBIbotany

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Great find by my friend Chris Bell @bellchris76 - a population of c40 Green-flowered Helleborines, Epipactis phyllanthes in Cleveland, the first county record! Just goes to show what can be lurking in uninspiring places in former industrial scrubland! Well done Chris 👏

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The ultra rare hybrid between Heath Spotted and Small White Orchids

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5 years

There are still some eternal optimists among us who believe that Autumn Ladies Tresses won't be our last #orchid of the year....the most recent Ghost was found on 20th September 2009. 🤞

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6 years

The form of Northern Marsh Orchid known as 'atrata' grew at a single site in NE England. Extreme flower pigmentation caused by pollution from nearby factories, which has since been stopped. The plants have almost completely reverted to normal NMO now the soil is clean!

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Bony fingers emerge from the torn sleeve, ready to grab unsuspecting victims........... Ah no, it's a Coralroot Orchid in bud 🤦

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5 years

My Bee Orchid, found snapped off at a local site, has been sat in sugary water for a month and now it has BABIES 😂 thanks @NE1LEVANS and @thenewgalaxy for tips on how to nurture it. Now I have to put them somewhere suitable....

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How to choose a favourite Green-winged Orchid? Non-binary? Dandy duo? Rosy May? Smoke on the Water? It's like choosing your favourite child, you shouldn't really do it 🤪

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3 years

Green-winged Orchid portraits: Stacked shots on @OlympusUK EM1-MKii

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2 years

Three Irish beauties - Dense-flowered and Irish Marsh Orchid, and Lesser Twayblade, all seen in decent quantities in the west during the last few days.

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The queen. Orchis punctulata, Antalya @HamzNobes @Orchid_hunters

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6 years

TWITCH ON! It may not look much but the rarest Orchid in the country at the moment is the hybrid between Pyramidal and Fragrant #orchid found by Rita Sanders last year. Not yet confirmed, a sample will be taken for analysis. Photo: Rita Sanders.

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The first fly orchid has opening in Kent- on the 8th April!!!!! 😲😲 thanks for the report and photo @den_nature 👍👍👍

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Some early season Turkish orchid action while the UK season gets going...check out the eyelashes on that Sawfly!! @HamzNobes

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It's official! My tiny back garden is now a TWO ORCHID space! 3x Bee, self-seeded from a rescued broken spike & 4 of 6 newly-emerged Common Spotted, rescued from a development site. Other seed has been scattered, I wonder if I can make it three species?? North Worcestershire.

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Some Irish Marsh Orchids (Dactylorhiza kerryensis) from County Mayo at the weekend. Of the Marsh/Spotted orchids, only this and Pugsley's were in full flower in any kind of numbers.

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Hiding in plain sight, three Bee Orchid rosettes in my tiny back garden! Scattered some seed from a broken-off spike rescued from a local site, around 4-5 years ago and now look! Hoping one of these will flower this year 😀🙏 #wildflowerhour

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That moment when you're trying to take a nice photo of a pretty Common Spotted Orchid, and someone just HAS to get in on the act 😂......the flower is 10mm wide, giving perspective to how tiny this perfectly formed grasshopperling is!

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Turkey, day 4. Sadly, Orchis punctulata reduced to 3 plants at a site that held 250+ in 2019. Ophrys mammosa & padiliconi.

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Fifty shades of pink! There's been a lot of hanky panky going on in South Staffs with a once 1000-strong population of Southern Marsh reduced to less than ten by hybridization with Common Spotted Orchids. A good or a bad thing?

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6 years

Amazingly, autumn Frog #orchids are in fresh flower today, 24th August, in Sussex! Exceptionally late date. Photo: Peter Scott.

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9 months

1/2: GHOST ORCHIDS part 2. In the late 1800's, several records were made from Shropshire, near Ludlow between 1876 and 1892, in the "Mortimer Forest", or Bringewood Chase area to the west of the town.

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People reminiscing about the 2022 season got me thinking about my favourite moments. Both of mine are hybrids... First the gorgeous Common Spotted x Frog, one of seven on a Wiltshire Down. Second, Small White x Heath Fragrant, wacky intergeneric super-rarity, from Scotland.

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1 year

Ireland, day 1: 50+ Dense-flowered Orchid with fantastic views at a new site for us in Sligo 😍

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5 years

The first Narrow-lipped Helleborines are open in Surrey, though plants in deeper shade have some way to go. Thanks to Richard Upton for the news and photo

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