Amazing Orchids
This week some of Kent Wildlife Trust's reserves have been featured in the Telegraph's 'Most Amazing Places to see Orchids'
This week some of Kent Wildlife Trust's reserves have been featured in the Telegraph's 'Most Amazing Places to see Orchids'
Learn more about wild orchids: their life cycles, where to find them, and how to identify them
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The Early purple orchid is one of the first orchids to pop up in spring. Look for its pinkish-purple flowers from April, when bluebells still carpet our woodland floors. Its leaves are dark green…
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids.
Discover what it takes to create one of the best reserves in the country for Man Orchids with the Darland Banks warden.
The petals of the rare Lizard orchid's flowers form the head, legs and long tail of a lizard. They are greenish, with light pink spots and stripes, and smell strongly of goats! Spot this tall…
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
This unassuming orchid is easily overlooked. It is found patchily across the UK, but has been declining for decades.
The Pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green stem. It likes chalk grassland, sand dunes, roadside verges and quarries…
Here are 10 incredible things you may not know about Hyacinthoides non-scripta... aka bluebells.