Andy Rogers

Grilled limpets (lapas), probably Patella aspera or
Patella candei to celebrate finding Goodyera macrophylla 😋🤍🇵🇹

Goodyera macrophylla @860m in the Parque Florestal do Fanal, Madeira today, 5/10/2025 🇵🇹 😃

6-8ft beauties

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

Most had leaves coming through Vinny 👍

Glad to hear it Kirsty 😃

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 just walk in from the main car park and start opposite the visitor centre, then walk on out along the main path into the main part of the reserve (Greenland lake) ...the ALTs are everywhere where there's a hint of moistness ...

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

Any sign of Goldilocks Vinny?

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 😃 💜🇭🇷

First time in Slovenia Roger 😃

Epipactis × schmalhausenii

Epipactis atrorubens

Epipactis helleborine

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

Good size! The ones I have seen there are usually tiny

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

Thanks Steve - almost dark time I stumbled across them, will go back in the morning, hangover permitting!

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 🩷💜🤍🇸🇰

Dactylorhiza x mixtum, D. fuschii, Anacamptis pyramidalis, D. x mixtum, Epipactis palustris, 3 * D. viridis

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

what altitude Tristan?

Fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera) setting seed

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