A splendid combo ...Autumn squill (scilla autumnalis) and Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) at Start Point today 9-9-2025 😃

Fresh Autumn lady's-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) appearing at Dawlish Warren following the recent rain 😃 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A few Autumn Lady's-tresses on the Dorset Way verges today, 10 days ago there were none. A nice end to Summer 😃 31-8-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

How to seat a tubeless gravel tyre (possibly not much interest to the orchid world, but for the benefit of my cycling friends) 😃🚴

I'd say it is a pretty normal year for Autumn Lady's-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) at Dawlish Warren NNR. Lots in full flower, many coming through and more to come 😃 19-8-2025. @warrenbirding.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @rogercharding.bsky.social

Pretty sure this, past its sell by date, orchid is a Nigritella, maybe even N. lithopolitanica, the Kamik orchid, up at 1665m asl. on Velika Planina, Slovenia today 14-8-2025. Stunning place. Lovely alpine flowers. 💚 🇸🇮

Fresh flowering Broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine), Herb paris (Paris quadrifolia) in fruit and some delightful Large-flowered hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa) high up (1200m asl) under Beech in Velebit NP, Croatia, today 13-8-2025 💜🇭🇷

Violet helleborine (Epipactis purpurata) and the last floret of a Fragrant orchid, around 1100m asl near Crni Vrh in Velebit NP, Croatia today. Lots of orchids found, will be back in the Spring 😃 💜🇭🇷

Lovely Dark red and Broad leaved helleborines and their hybrid @1400-1600m asl. on the Vrsic pass, Slovenia today, 31-7-2025. 6500ft of climbing to see them mind you 🥵😃 💜🇸🇮

Good numbers of Bog orchids (Hammarbya paludosa) on Dartmoor today. 27-7-20205. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Ghostly encounter with an orchid, Epipogium aphyllum. 👻😃. Slovakia 17-7-2025

A wasp with a heavy head having feasted on Broad-leaved helleborines (Epipactis helleborine) (also known as the Wasp Orchid to the Dutch, I'm reliably informed) in Slovakia today. 18-7-2025 💜🇸🇰 @pjvanmaaren.bsky.social

Well...another new orchid species for me today. The holy grail. Epipogium aphyllum, the Ghost Orchid @1000m asl. in The Slovak Paradise National Park. Blimey, can't quite believe it. 🍻🍻 tonight 👻💜🇸🇰

Two new orchid species for me today 😃 Dwarf alpine orchid, Chamorchis alpina, and Globe-flowered orchid, Traunsteinera globosa, @2000m asl. 16-7-2025. High Tatras 💜🇸🇰

Another new species of orchid for me 😃, One-leaved bog orchid, Malaxis monophyllos. 1035m asl. High Tatras, Slovakia 15-7-2025 💜🇸🇰

A new orchid species for me 😃 Short-spurred fragrant-orchid, Gymnadenia odoratissima, attracting the insects last evening in The Slovak Paradise National Park. 14-7-2025 🩷💜🤍🇸🇰

A lovely mixed bag of orchids last Sunday, 6-7-2025, in Wiltshire. Great to see so many Frog orchids setting seed 😃 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A wasp nectaring on a Broad-leaved x Violet helleborine hybrid (Epipactis x schulzei). Wiltshire, 6-7-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Good numbers of Marsh fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) on the slumping cliffs near Blue Anchor, Somerset. 5-7-2025

Marsh Fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) flowering at Braunton Burrows, 3-7-2025. 30-40 in bud/flower in one slack and encouragingly, starting to pop up in the margins of an area that was scraped a few years ago 😃👍 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bog Orchids doing very well on Dartmoor today in a lovely wet flush @ 450m asl. 29 plants in one small part of the site - probably the most I've seen there 😃 28-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

High up on Dartmoor today the Heath Spotted orchids were the best I've seen them. Just love the variation in colour and form. No drought here! 28-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A few Bee orchids hanging on in a shady roadside spot near Exeter with some lovely Pyramidal orchids, the majority of which were non-resupinate. On the opposite side of the road a growing population of nicely marked Southern Marsh Orchids 😃. 26-5-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A drop of rain recently has brought some of the ant hills at Wylye Down NNR to life and a fresh wave of Chalk Fragrant orchids is coming through. No Frog orchids or hybrids though, yet. Also very satisfying to have got the Bastard ...Toadflax (Thesium humifusum) 😃 22-6-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Marsh Fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) now in full flower on the Jurassic Coast, Dorset. Having smelled all three fragrant orchid species over the last few days, my favourite is most definitely this one! 23-6-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bee beetle (Trichius fasciatus), Slovakia 20-6-2025. Saw one last year at Kenfig, Wales.

A crab spider waiting for lunch on the lip of a Lady's-slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceous).... a hybrid between Snoopy and Mutley springs to (my) mind 🤣. Slovakia. 20-6-2025

Bog Orchids & Heath Spotted Orchids in Hampshire today. 21-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Coralroot orchids under Spruce at 950m asl. on North facing slope under Lomnický štít, High Tatras 🇸🇰 19-6-2025

Lady's Slipper Orchids and Red Helleborine at 1050m asl. near Liptovská Anna, Slovakia. 20-6-2025 💛💜🇸🇰

Lady's Slipper Orchids 🇸🇰 20-6-2025 💥

Took a punt on a route suggested by ChatGpt and it didn't disappoint! 10 miles of orchid rich road verges through ancient beech forest. Lady's slippers, Coralroot ('slightly' past their best) & fresh Red Helleborine were new to me. Broad-leaved helleborine pushing through the road! 😃 18-6-2025. ❤️🇸🇰

Red Helleborine (Cephalanthera rubra). 18-6-2025. ❤️ Slovakia

Amazing roadside orchids in Eastern Slovakia ...Lady's-slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceous) 💥 18-6-2025

Eastern Slovakia today in protected beech forests of Simonka NNR up to 1092m asl. Clouded Apollo butterflies were the stars alongside Greater and Lesser Butterfly orchids, Broad-leaved orchids and Birds-nest orchids. 17-6-2025 💜🇸🇰

Searching for Red Helleborine but only found Birds-nest, Lesser Butterfly and Chalk Fragrant orchids in the foothills of the High Tatras mountains, 15-6-2025, plus some lovely other wildlife 😃

Fantastic orchids and other wild flowers up to 4500ft asl. in the High Tatras 🇸🇰 - interesting Frog orchid variation. 16-6-2025

Broad-leaved Marsh Orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. majalis) flowering @1500m asl. under the ski lift in Strbske Pleso. Lots further down in stunning meadows. Chalk fragrant orchid was a bit of a cheat - Tatranska Lomnica Botanical Gardens. 💜 The High Tatras 🇸🇰 14-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Wylye Down bursting into flower after the recent rain with many Chalk fragrant and Common Spotted orchids this morning, plus a few Pyramidal and Bee orchids 😃 13-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Lots of Marsh helleborine flowering now alongside Southern Marsh orchids and Bee orchids on the West Dorset slumping cliffs. Marsh fragrant orchids soon to flower too! 11-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Some lovely boldly marked, spotty leaved orchids from the West Dorset slumping cliffs. Presumably Southern Marsh x Common Spotted orchid hybrids (Dactylorhiza x grandis), though the site is reputed to have junialis. 11-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Fly orchid variation (Ophrys insectifera), all different plants. A few weeks ago, West Dorset. 22-5-2025

Greater Butterfly Orchid (left), Lesser Butterfly Orchid (right) and their hybrid Platanthera x hybrida (middle). Bulls Cross NR. 8-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Chalk Fragrant Orchids, Common Spotted Orchid and Marbled White some Marbled White butterflies. Sheepscombe Common NR. 8-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

So much to see at Kenfig! 8-6-2025. Marsh Orchids (Dactylorhiza sp.) and their head scratching hybrids, many other delightful wildflowers and things with wings 😃 ❤️💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Poplar leaf beetle (Chrysomela populi) on an Early Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata ssp. coccinea). Kenfig, 8-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Fen Orchids (Liparis loeselii) at Kenfig 8-6-2025. We scoured many slacks that had previously held good numbers. 20-30 found in one slack, one rosette in another. @pjvanmaaren.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Dacts 💜 Kenfig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 8-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Fen Orchids (Liparis loeselii). Kenfig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 8-6-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social @pjvanmaaren.bsky.social

Nice variation in Common Spotted Orchids (Dactylorhiza fuschii) at Carmel NR 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 today and lots of fresh Greater Butterfly Orchids. A few Southern Marsh Orchids and the inevitable Dact hybrids 😃 7-6-2025. Thanks to @pjvanmaaren.bsky.social for the company & showing me around @ukorchids.bsky.social