Returning to our usual haunts (see last
year's page for same site), we found a single orchid flowering in the lawn.
The flowering stem had avoided being mown a week earlier, although the leaves
had suffered a little [L, below].
Another isolated specimen [R, below] was growing in the meadow in long grass by the gorse bushes, where there had been such a fine display of the other species in June last year.
In the grass a short distance away down the slope among the Bluebells and Bracken,
were some white Bluebells.
This is one of two spots which I know where they can be found, both within a
radius of about 2 km.
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Orchis morio The Green-Winged Orchid, flowering in April/May, does not seem to be particularly common in Normandy. Scilla nonscripta I have so far only observed Whitebells in two places in Normandy - both in this valley |
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