@ukorchids.bsky.social Moving this account to Bluesky for the 2025 season 👍
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All new content will now be on Bluesky 💙, please look for me there if interested 👍
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Hi orchid lovers!
Our new book is due out in spring 2026!
It will be a large-format, A4 photographic guide to all British & Irish orchids, to complement our field guide, Britain's Orchids.
Please support us if you'd like a copy!
kickstarter.com/projects/orc...
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Some more Late Spider orchids from today showing variation / possible hybridisation (one photo only). All seen in the excellent company of @HardingRogerC .
Lower numbers than recent years, maybe affected by the drought.
ALT This plant shows the 'duck beak' column of Bee orchid, lip shape of Bee orchid but the short, pink triangular petals of Late Spider orchid.
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Yes Yes Yes , Common Spotted Orchids coming up in our Cheltenham Gloucestershire garden
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A way to go yet but nice to see Early Spider and Early Purple orchid rosettes forming, Durlston CP
@DorsetWildlife @SightingDOR @ukorchids
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They are on a roadside near you, folks 👍
@BSBIbotany @ukorchids well this the best birthday find 4 me. After 15 years I say trying 2 find one and yes I have been a bit obsessed with the plant and on a mission to find 1. I've finally found a lizard orchid rosette in Northamptonshire. Bingo!
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@BSBIbotany @ukorchids well this the best birthday find 4 me. After 15 years I say trying 2 find one and yes I have been a bit obsessed with the plant and on a mission to find 1. I've finally found a lizard orchid rosette in Northamptonshire. Bingo!
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Orchis canariensis at various locations around Tenerife: Teno, Anaga and Aguamansa approx 700-900m. 2-3-2025 @ukorchids
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The whorls of a new bee #orchid colony
They start to come into leaf so early in the season.
@ukorchids
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It's the South #Croydon Lizard #Orchid on its way back for 2025! @ukorchids @NatureLark @Paulfastbikes @brianh4951 @JohnBirkett3
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Registered 😁 see you there 👍
Fond of orchids?
Fancy some monkey business this evening?
We're talking monkey orchids!
Sign up for our free online Winter Talk at 7.30pm tonight.
It's by David Roberts from @UniKent on 'The curious case of the man, the lady & the monkey':
tickettailor.com/events/bota…
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Fond of orchids?
Fancy some monkey business this evening?
We're talking monkey orchids!
Sign up for our free online Winter Talk at 7.30pm tonight.
It's by David Roberts from @UniKent on 'The curious case of the man, the lady & the monkey':
tickettailor.com/events/bota…
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@SussexWildlife @ukorchids Early Purple Orchid rosettes pushing through in Pallinghurst Wood, West Sussex
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A few days left of 2024 & there's still time to enter the @BSBIbotany fundraising lottery, to win a place on our
#orchid hunting holiday in Rhodes, Greece.
Tickets are £10 each & 100% goes to the charity to fund their valuable work.
Enter here...
bsbi.org/greenwings-holiday-…
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planning permission has now been granted for both the hotel and surf lagoon at Betteshanger Country Park. Dover District Council has decided that the developments do not require an Environmental Impact Assessment. We are taking legal advice.
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Having a read of My 1951 copy Wild Orchids of Britain by V.S.Summerhayes came across this lovely photo byE.J .Bedford coloured by hand of Summer Ladies Tresses from Hampshire ( know sadly extinct ) @ukorchids
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Daily orchid (day 4). I’m going to try to post a picture of a native U.K. orchid, taken by me over the last couple of years, until New Year’s Day. Today Dorset’s enigmatic Woodcock x Fly hybrid, lovely. #orchid #dailyorchid
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Been looking forward to this cracker for a long while 😁
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A 2025 season Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula) rosette has appeared in my garden today, 20/11/2024, here in north-east #Hampshire. #orchids @ukorchids @EuropeanOrchids @Hants_BIC @BSBIbotany
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