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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allewes" data-source="post: 3390922" data-attributes="member: 131624"><p>Definitely I'd say not an early year, with things moving slowly with the cold late spring - the first early purples only just coming out in East Sussex. Depending on what you want to see, as long as things progress 'normally' from now, I'd say that third and final bank holiday weekend will give good chances of seeing Early Spider (I find East Sussex ones seem to be best later than Kent), Burnt (ES) and Man orchid (Kent, very rare in ES) in good condition third weekend and Lady orchid and Greater butterfly orchid and at the outside Late spider orchid (more likely early June), in the last weekend as well as other more widely seen species. Hants is also good of course in late May and first half of June. If things go slower, there will still be great things to see last half of May and start June, it will just depend which and where!</p></blockquote><p></p>