Early Purple Orchids North Lincolnshire

Finally a beautiful warm spring day with no wind meant we could get some sharp images of our local Early Purple Orchids - 87 plants in total.

Timing is everything..

and this is what happens when you get it wrong - stunning flowers that are just past their best!  found in a local wood whilst desperately listening for Golden Orioles see http://theshadoxhurstgarden.blogspot.com/

Early Purple Orchid/Orchis mascula

Yellow Pimpernel/ Lysimachia nemorum

Bugle/ Ajuga reptans

Yellow Archangel/Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Sanicle/Sanicula europaea