What’s flowering?

Last updated: 31st May 2010

Butterflies include: Orange Tip, Green-veined White, Brimstone, Peacock, Comma, Small Tortoishell, Dingy Skipper, Grizzled Skipper, Small Heath, Green Hairstreak, Common Blue & Small Copper.

Current orchid statistics:

These figures might be adjusted through the flowering season as more new plants are found. The number of flowering Monkey orchids is particularly prone to error.

Name
Number

of plants

Flowering

status

Comments
Lady orchid
(Orchis purpurea)
22 3 gone over
hybrid
(O. purpurea x simia)
300

77

most OK but some gone over
Monkey orchid
(O. simia)
448 136 in flower most OK but some dead
TOTAL 769

Last year’s performance:

Name
Number

of plants

Flowering

status

Comments
Lady orchid
(Orchis purpurea)
7 2 finished flowering
hybrid
(O. purpurea x simia)
130

27

finished flowering
Monkey orchid
(O. simia)
427 ~200 finished flowering
564 TOTAL

2008 performance:

(with Lady/hybrid figures adjusted):

Name Number
of plants
Flowering
status
Comments
Lady orchid
(Orchis purpurea)
7 2 flowered finished
hybrid
(O. purpurea x simia)
72 11 flowered (+1 flower destroyed by trampling) finished
Monkey orchid
(O. simia)
397 136 flowered finished
TOTAL 477 a record season for Hartslock