Southern marsh orchid
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids.
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids.
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
How to dance like wildlife
The Greater butterfly-orchid is a tall orchid of hay meadows, grasslands and ancient woodlands. It has whitish-green flowers that have spreading petals and sepals - a bit like the wings of a…
Turn your garden into a wildlife hotspot!
The common spotted-orchid is the easiest of all our orchids to see: sometimes, so many flowers appear together that they create a pale pink carpet in our woodlands, old quarries, dunes and marshes…