Autumn Lady’s-tresses
Towards the end of August I start to look out for this little orchid growing in the short grassland high up on the Mendip Hills. Their name comes from their tiny flowers spiralling around...
Category: Orchids
Orchids and Cowslips at UpHill
Six o’clock in the morning, time for for a quick walk to photograph the flowers growing around the Uphill nature reserves in North Somerset. The sun had only just appeared above the horizon behind...
Autumn Lady’s-Tresses
Next to Lynchcombe nature reserve is another brilliant Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve called Cooks Fields. I walk through a corner of it every time I visit Lynchcombe. In that corner is the tiny special...
South Hill – Pyramid Stage
I had been told by the South Hill warden that the nature reserve was covered in Pyramidal Orchids. So this was a must visit to the tiny Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve. I did not...
Babcary Flowers and Butterflies
Babcary is a small packet of wonderful flowers and wildlife deep in the middle of Somerset. It is managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. I often pass Babcary on my daily commute by car, or...
Early Purple Orchids
The last couple of posts have focused on the Wild Garlic displays at Longwood and Round Wood in Somerset. Both these sites also put on an excellent display of Early Purple Orchids (Orchis macula)....
