2019 UK Orchids (1 Viewer)

muba · Mar 7, 2019

Having booked an early April holiday in S.R. Sicily I thought this would provide me with my first orchids in flower for the year. Perhaps not so! The wardens at Durleston have reported that the Early Spiders amd Early Purples are pushing up very nicely thank you! I feel the need for a long deive coming on. This is a photo from 2017

muba · Mar 7, 2019

A couple of weeks ago I stopped off to see if the Llay Bee Orchids were coming along. They certainly are!

aeshna5 · Mar 8, 2019

I've found quite a few Bee Orchid rosettes in lawns in a couple of sites in west London.

muba · Mar 29, 2019

Dancing Ledge

The Early Spider Orchids are beginning to flower near Dancing Ledge, Purbeck, Dorset. They are still easy to miss, barely standing out higher than the grass, but give them a week or so and they will be standing proud.

Troubador · Mar 30, 2019

Very nice to see them. It is decades since we visited Dancing Ledge and found our first Early Spiders. Back then there were Late Spiders on the slopes above Folkstone. I wonder if they are still there.

Lee

muba · Apr 2, 2019

Troubador said:
Very nice to see them. It is decades since we visited Dancing Ledge and found our first Early Spiders. Back then there were Late Spiders on the slopes above Folkstone. I wonder if they are still there.

Lee

The LSOs are still there, but now having to be protected behind an electric fence.

jeffnsue · Apr 3, 2019

It always cheers me to see this thread rekindled, good work Steve.

I’ll contribute when I can but it won’t be till mid-April earliest as I’m off on Friday on the Greenwings Orchid Odyssey to Rhodes, hosted by Jon Dunn. Thereafter I’ll be out and about in all the usual haunts!

Jeff Hodgson

muba · Apr 3, 2019

jeffnsue said:
It always cheers me to see this thread rekindled, good work Steve.

I’ll contribute when I can but it won’t be till mid-April earliest as I’m off on Friday on the Greenwings Orchid Odyssey to Rhodes, hosted by Jon Dunn. Thereafter I’ll be out and about in all the usual haunts!

Jeff Hodgson

I am sure no-one will mind a few photos of your best finds from Rhodes Jeff

Romith · Apr 14, 2019

Early Purple orchids just waking up in North Norfolk.

Dave Pearson · Apr 18, 2019

Very much awake in north Hampshire!

muba · Apr 21, 2019

A few years ago a Sawfly Orchid. Ophrys tenthedrenifera, was found in flower amongst the Early Spiders of Purbeck. It hasn't survived, and the evidence shows that it was of Italian origin - ssp grandiflora. The general consensus is that it was planted there and not a result of of an accident of nature. This year I noticed a hole dug into the turf at the 10 point GR for the plant. Had someone removed it because it was introduced. Equally, someone could have dug up an Early Spider.
But if that specimen had survived and set viable seed this is what we may have seen in that locality in a few years. Photographed 9th April, on the road to Pantalika Necropolis, Sicily

muba · Apr 25, 2019

The Green-winged Orchids are putting on a great show at GOP Hill this year. More in flower than I've seen before, and with a range of colours from pure white to deepest purple. They are all rather stunted, or perhaps I should say vertically challenged, due to the well grazed short turf. Downside was a heavy hailstorm curtailed our visit and spoiled a few photos.

Acid John · Apr 26, 2019

Hi muba are they in the same places as the Ladies Tresses?

muba · Apr 27, 2019

Acid John said:
Hi muba are they in the same places as the Ladies Tresses?

Yes, exactly the same bit of turf

Acid John · Apr 27, 2019

Thank you.

muba · Apr 29, 2019

Highlights of my year #1

I wanted to find new orchid sites this year and so we looked at the OS Explorer maps for the N. Wales coast for potential places to visit. One turned out to be a small wooded dell beneath a hill with the inevitable hillfort near Llanddulas. It was crowded with Early Purple Orchids (or as they say in Germany Kuckucks Knabenkrauten). No pure white, but a range of colour from pale pink to deep purple. It's very gratifying to make such a discovery, even if it has been discovered before.

Acid John · May 11, 2019

GOP HILL 5th MAY

Thank you Muba for directions what a place.
Primrose, Early Purple and Green-Winged Orchids.

aeshna5 · May 11, 2019

Acid John said:
Thank you Muba for directions what a place.
Primrose, Early Purple and Green-Winged Orchids.

Lovely photos but your Primrose is a Cowslip.

Acid John · May 11, 2019

I was that busy trying to spell that I spelt the wrong word

I need more B

muba · May 13, 2019

I have updated my Orchid Web Pages to include trips out in UK and Sicily up to the end of April. More to come in the coming months.

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