Wild Orchids UK & IE

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British and Irish orchids, with occasional orchid posts from other areas. Run by Sean Cole

Fleshy pink spike of an orchid hybrid
Creamy yellow-green Musk Orchid next to a steel rule. 18.5cm high, tall for this species.
Tall Lizard Orchid growing among yellow flowers
Green and yellow orchid a fen
Lizard-like orchid flowers their tails blowing in the breeze
White and purple orchid spikes in a buttercup meadow
Budding orchid spikes
Dark purple tiny orchid rosettes
Pale pink orchid spike
Stately white orchids in ancient woodland
Greenish orchid growing among heather
Early Purple Orchids with a Green VeinedWhite butterfly on one.
Pale pink orchid spikes
Baby Pink, double or hid flowering spikes
Tall orchid spike in bud among grass
Multi coloured orchid spike in the grass
One purple orchid with bluebells among the grass
Purple orchid spike with bluebells in the background
Bright purple orchid spike with fresh green leaves
Purple Orchid
Shiny green orchid leaves on bare ground.
Purple orchid spoke among grass
Stately white orchid spikes emerging from vegetation, title of book is ORchids of Britain and Ireland - a photographic guide, by Mike Waller and Sean Cole with Rainar Kurbel
White-flowered Orchid growing in grass.
The crystalline white and green flowers of autumn lady's tresses, spiralling up their green hairy stem
Single orchid in foreground in dead grass. Beautiful valley off into the distance
Spooky, spiky Ghost Orchid flower.
Small butterfly resting on the pink flowers of an orchid
Delicate purple and white, spiky orchid
White flowers next to a horsetail and pink Fragrant orchid
Delicately spotty pale pink orchid.
Dark fly on the white, pink and yellow flower of a Marsh Helleborine with sunlight behind.
Orchid twice the size of my 42cm high rucksack!
Pale pink and purple orchid in grassland
Masses of orchids on a road verge, purple and white
Pink brown and yellow flowers of Bee orchid
Pink brown and yellow Bee Orchid imitating its pollinator.
Sunlit white Orchid flowers
Pink orchid spike in long grass
Graphs and text
White and green Orchid flowers
Delicate purple orchid spike
Pale pink orchid with delicate purple pattern
Pink and purple orchid spike
Poster with all the British and Irish orchids on it
Black and red moth on a white orchid spike
Purple orchid flower spike
Gorgeous pink, copper and yellow Bee Orchid flowers
White orchids in a meadow with views below to trees and hills in the distance.
Purple orchid in grassland
Stately white orchid among ancient forest vegetation
Slim white orchid growing out of a steep grassy bank
Tall purple orchid spike in grass
Purple orchids in foreground with spectacular view behind.
Leafy green orchid with crisp white flowers growing among Ivy leaves
Creamy brown unopened orchid spike in a dark beechwood with shafts of sunlight
Purple and white Monkey Orchid
Pretty patterned moth resting on a Purple Orchid
White orchid in short grass
Small black and white Butterfly in the grass.