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Orchidsa Guide to Some of the UK’S Best Orchid Reserves Cover: Military Orchid (C) Helen Walsh (C) Helen Orchid Military Cover 40 places to see OrchidsA guide to some of the UK’s best orchid reserves Cover: Military orchid Helen (c) Walsh 40 places to see... Orchids For a few short weeks they’re our most beautiful wild flowers. Here’s 9 where to get out and enjoy them this spring and summer. 15 17 4 An exotic and mysterious aura surrounds the orchid, in the case of the bee orchid. It’s alluring appearence and 3 36 lending it the reputation for being rare and hard to find. In scent persuades amourous bees to copulate, thereby 26 37 fact, there are over 50 species of wild orchid in the UK, not transferring pollen to other nearby plants with the aid of 32 including their many hybrids, and in the right conditions, their unwitting admirers. 16 38 35 displays can number in their hundreds. Flowering times differ by species, with many early 14 40 Orchids captured the imagination of our naturalist varieties entering their peak season from May onwards. 7 8 forebears and have been subject to some creative Helleborines generally flower later, extending the season 11 34 28 25 2 31 22 namings, many of which invite the enthusiast to share in into August for the avid orchid seeker. 33 27 the appretiation of their diverse forms. Here we suggest just a handful of Wildlife Trust reserves 5 19 21 18 29 1 12 39 The blooms of many resemble their namesake; man to view wild orchids at this spring and summer. For more 23 30 10 and frog orchids sport trailing legs, lady’s tresses wear information about the reserves listed here, or to find petticoats, and fly and bee orchid share the shape and alternatives near you, visit www.wildlifetrusts.org.uk/ 13 6 20 colouration of insects. This mimicry is famously intentional yourlocaltrust 24 Lady x monkey hybrid orchid Chris (c) Raper Knapp reserve Paul (c) Lane 1 Hartslock reserve 2 Knapp and Papermill reserve Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust Worcestershire Wildlife Trust A fabulous swathe of chalk grassland overlooking the Thames, Hartslock is A corner of old England nestled in the Leigh Brook valley. Popular for its renowned for its hundreds of monkey orchids as well as lady, common scenic beauty and the variety of habitats and wildlife for visitors to enjoy at spotted, pyramidal, and white helleborine. Look out for the unique hybrid any time of the year. The reserve boasts meadows, woodland and orchard lady monkey orchid. The best time to visit is May or early June. habitat. Orchids include green-winged and a display of up to 10,000 Where is it? 7 miles NW of Reading near Upper Gatehampton Farm. OS common spotted orchids. Sheet 175, SU 616 795 Where is it? 7 miles W of Worcester. Grid ref: SO 751 522 Marsh helleborine Les (c) Binns Dark red helleborine (c) Philip Precey Milford Cutting Bishop Middleham 3 Ulster Wildlife Trust 4 Durham Wildlife Trust This small, secluded nature reserve, outside of Armagh City, is an old An old, large magnesian limestone quarry which is noted for its very rich railway cutting with a mix of flowery calcareous grasslands and scrubby flora, characteristic of a habitat that is internationally rare. The site supports woodland. Its sloping grassy banks shelter common twayblade, fragrant pyramidal, common spotted, fragrant and bee orchid and lots of dark red and common spotted orchids, and marsh helleborine - an orchid so rare it is helleborines. Lots of butterflies too. Best visited April to July for most protected by law. orchids or July/August for helleborines. Where is it? 2 miles SW of Armargh. Postcode: BT60 3NY Where is it? 2 miles N of Sedgefield. Grid ref: NZ 331 326 40 PLACES TO SEE ORCHIDS New Grove Meadows (c) Gwent WT Fragrant orchid (c) Philip Precey New Grove Meadows Fontmell Down 5 Gwent Wildlife Trust 6 Dorset Wildlife Trust One of Britain’s best old hay meadows, and a riot of colour in early summer. Primarily chalk grassland on the upper slopes of the north Dorset downs. In May, early purple orchids appear and by the end of the month the fields Interspersed scrub and woodland provide shelter for many species of are dominated by large numbers of green-winged orchids. Later in the butterfly, while the open chalk grassland of the lower slopes is covered in season common spotted orchids appear along with twayblade and even the wildflowers in the spring and summer months. Nine orchid species are occasional broad leaved helleborine. found here including bee, frog, fragrant and lesser butterfly orchid. Where is it? 6 miles S of Monmouth. Grid ref: SO 501 067 Where is it? 4 miles S of Shaftesbury. Grid ref: ST 887 176 Pyramidal orchid Les (c) Binns Common spotted orchid Marshall Tom (c) Llynclys Hill Cribb’s Meadow 7 Shropshire Wildlife Trust 8 Leics & Rutland Wildlife Trust Old quarries, screes, meadows, pond and woodland make up this diverse The meadow sits on Boulder Clay, a substrate reknowned for supporting reserve. These habitats help to support a range of orchid species including herb-rich grassland. Designated a National Nature Reserve and SSSI, the early purple, common spotted, butterfly, fragrant, pyramidal and lesser and site boasts green winged orchid in May and common spotted and greater butterfly orchids. twayblade in June. Where is it? 3 miles S of Oswestry. Grid ref: SJ 272 236 Where is it? 5km east of Wymondham on Leics/Lincs border. Grid SK 899 188 Frog orchid Bruce (c) Shortland Early purple orchid Philip (c) Precey Feoch Meadows Yockletts Bank 9 Scottish Wildlife Trust 10 Kent Wildlife Trust Feoch Meadows is regarded as one of the finest grasslands in Ayrshire and 23 hectares of SSSI ancient woodland on a chalk escarpment with clay cap. is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a working Ayrshire Several small areas of chalk grassland are kept open by mowing annually to farm with nine species including small white and lesser butterfly, frog, further enhance the variety of wildlife. This is probably one of the best sites fragrant and greater butterfly orchids. for lady orchid and there are excellent colonies of twayblade, common Where is it? 30 miles NE of Stranraer and 1.5 miles E of Barrhill village. Grid spotted, early-purple, fly and other orchids. ref: NX 263 822 Where is it? 2 miles S of Petham. Grid ref: 179T 125 477 40 PLACES TO SEE ORCHIDS Chettisham Meadow Lorna (c) Parker Man orchid (c) Les Binns Chettisham Meadow Hutchinson’s Bank, Chapel Bank & Threecorner Grove 11 Beds, Cambs, Northants and Peterborough Wildlife Trust 12 London Wildlife Trust An historic remnant of neutral grassland that has been managed as a The steep grassland slope of Hutchinson’s Bank hosts wonderfully diverse traditional hay meadow for over a century. A spectacular show of green- plantlife, including pyramidal, common spotted and man orchid. Following winged orchids appears in late April and May with bee and common spotted the chalk walk also brings you to Chapel Bank, an area spiked with orchids orchids showing later in the summer. including common twayblade and white helleborine. Where is it? 2 miles N of Ely between Chettisham village and Little Where is it? Featherbed Lane or Farleigh Dean Crescent, New Addington, Downham. OS Sheet 143, TL 540 830 Croydon. Grid refs: TQ381616 & TQ386607 Heath spotted orchid Philip (c) Precey Thorswood Colin (c) Hayes Dunsdon reserve Thorswood reserve 13 Devon Wildlife Trust 14 Staffordshire Wildlife Trust One of Devon Wildlife Trust’s 12 Culm grassland reserves and an important 150 acres of flower-rich pastures, upland heath and meadows - visit in site for this marshy, heathy pasture habitat. Supports good displays of key summer to see early purple orchids. The reserve is also a treat for history orchid species such as the rare lesser butterfly orchid, heath spotted orchid lovers and you’ll find iron age burial mounds and evidence of the area’s rich and southern marsh orchid. industrial heritage within the landscape. Where is it? NW of Holsworthy, a few miles north of Pancrasweek village. Where is it? 1 mile NW of Stanton near Thorswood House. Grid ref: SK 115 Grid ref: SS 302 080 and SS 307083. 470 Lesser butterfly orchid (c) Philip Precey Priestcliffe Lees Matthew (c) Roberts East Chevington reserve The Wye Valley reserves 15 Northumberland Wildlife Trust 16 Derbyshire Wildlife Trust This reserve is still under development having been passed to NWT Made up of a trio of sites - Chee Dale, Miller’s Dale and Priestcliffe Lees - the following opencast restoration in 2003. The two large lakes with fringing Wye Valley reserves are a good place for a variety of different orchids, reedbeds, grassland and newly planted woodland make this reserve a prime including common spotted, early purple, bee and fragrant orchid. birdwatching spot as well as a good place to see northern marsh and lesser Where is it? In the Wye Valley to the SE of Buxton. All three reserves lie butterfly orchids. adjacent and can be accessed via the Monsal Trail. OS Sheet 119, SK 120 727, Where is it? To the E of Red Row. OS Sheet 81, NZ 270 990 SK 140 731, SK 147 730 respectively. 40 PLACES TO SEE ORCHIDS Waitby Greenriggs Cumbria (c) WT Bird’s nest orchid (c) Philip Precey Waitby Greenriggs Chafford Gorges nature park 17 Cumbria Wildlife Trust 18 Essex Wildlife Trust Waitby Greenriggs occupies an old railway line. The cuttings and The 200 acres of former chalk quarries, dominated by several large lakes, embankments have developed a very diverse grassland flora with over 200 woodland and chalk cliffs, boast a variety of orchid species including man, species of flowering plant recorded.
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