Amazing Plants from Folkestone to Dungeness, Kent - 20/05/17
I'm afraid I don't have the time to recount this trip in detail, but I thought I would share the photos with you and a brief account of each. For the Dungeness area photos I would like to thank Owen Leyshon, the Romney Marsh Ranger (and fellow KBRG member) for his valuable assistance in finding some of the plants here. Starting out at Folkestone Downs above the Channel Tunnel rail link, looking across Greatstone Bay towards Dungeness in the distance. Folkestone isn't well known for Man Orchids, but there's a few dotted around. Orchis anthropophora There were plenty of Small Copper butterflies on the wing. But the star of the show here is always the Late Spider Orchids, confined to just a few sites now in Kent, though common on the continent. Ophyrs fuciflora There were only two plants flowering at this site, hopefully more will be flowering by the time I write this. T...