There's a beautiful georgian manor house near where I work, nestling in a limestone valley with a river. The valley supports areas of ancient woodland and flower rich grassland. Here are some of the pictures from a short evening visit:
Green-winged orchids of various colours showing the green veins in the flowers
Cowslips in the grassland
Orchids scattered acorss the grassland
The local lanes are boardered by high, lush hedge-banks full of ramsoms, cow parsley, greater stitchwort and many other plants.
Bush vetch
Red campion
Red campion
Evening sunlight - this photo has NOT been edited
Ramsoms carpetting a woodland
what a wonderful land we have.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to find a Green Veined Orchid, but after seeing your blog I will be out again this week to carry on the seach.
ReplyDeleteGood luck - they are well worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteThey have a distribution not unlike the nightingale and like an unimproved, open-ish and short sward (as I am sure you know), but need soil not to be too acidic.
Now seems to be their peak flowering in the SW.