WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

Failed to find any on this morning's walk, but have these bee orchids growing in the front garden

 

Common spotted orchid

 

A majority of orchids here are stunted due to just one day's .rain in the last 5 weeks.

Parasitic Dodder.

 

I remember learning about this in my Botany A level school lessons. I've never seen it in real life, so it's interesting to see a picture of it growing in the wild.

My cousin has these in his lawn and he lives in the centre of a city. He thinks they were on the land there before they built the houses. He mows them away.

 

Fragrant orchid, man orchid and ladies bedstraw

 

Common Spotted Orchid

 

The drought here has produce some spindly Bee orchids but some decent Pyramidal are coming up.






Lots of Vipers-Bugloss around the roadside verges and kerbs.

 

Just one spike this year of this Wasp orchid Ophrys apifera Trollii still classed as a Bee variant.

 

Again you people who are able to take such stunning photos of wildflowers in the UK must make a record of them. So many plants are lost but you are showing that we still have so many fabulous wildflowers for us to enjoy. Wish we could see them in reality but love your photos.

 

Field Poppy in the garden

 

Heath Spotted.




Southern Marsh.

 

Martin Down Hampshire/Dorset border.
Chalk Fragrant.








Common Spotted








Greater Butterfly.

 

@strongylodon you must be like water diviners....in that you can spot an orchid that others would miss. I always enjoy seeing the fabulous photos you and others take of our native wildflowers. Many thanks.

 

A slight cheat as this chicory was sown by the local farmer , but still beautiful and beneficial