Far From the Madding Crowd: The Lesser Butterfly Orchid

Saturday, 14 June 2014

The Lesser Butterfly Orchid

I have found eight species of orchids so far this year at Durlston Country Park and Fontmell Down; Lesser Butterfly orchid (as below), Early Purple orchid, Early Spider orchid, Bee orchid, Common Twayblade orchid, Green Winged orchid, Common Spotted orchid, Pyramidal orchid. We went for a walk at Fontmell Down on Thursday, wonderful wide variety of wildflowers throughout the walk where I found this orchid, the Lesser Butterfly.

5 comments:

Richard Pegler said...: That's absolutely beautiful, Linda!; 15 June 2014 at 13:38
Roy Norris said...: Thats a new one on me Lyn. Quite different.; 15 June 2014 at 16:56
holdingmoments said...: That's a beauty Linda.
Never seen one of those before.; 15 June 2014 at 18:29
Richard Pegler said...: Such a delicate and beautiful orchid, Linda.; 16 June 2014 at 18:48
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou all for your comments. This orchid was at Fontmell Down, there was quite a few of them around.; 16 June 2014 at 23:08

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.