Back in May I posted about finding some Green Winged Orchids. I knew where they were growing and made a special trip to find them. This weekend we were out for a walk and I wasn't thinking about orchids at all and we stumbled upon loads of them.
I wandered around taking photographs and spotted four different varieties. This blog seems to be turning into a wild flower blog but these were just too beautiful not to share the photos. I'm not very confidant with orchid identification but with the help of my trusty flower book " The Concise British Flora in Colour " by W Keble Martin ( I have owned this book since I was six) and looking at photographs on The Hardy Orchid Society website I hope I have got the names right.
This one is the Burnt Tip Orchid.
The Common Spotted Orchid
The Fragrant Orchid
Lastly, the Pyramidal Orchid
They are such beautiful wild flowers, a definite bonus on our Sunday afternoon walk.I hope these names are correct, if I have made a mistake please leave a comment.
2 comments:
What beautiful orchids! Isn't it fun to discover beauty! We were just out checking our woods for progress on the black rasberries. Yum!
How beautiful - what a lovely sight to stumble on by chance.
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