KWT Lydden Roadside Nature Reserve, Kent - 21/06/20
From Covert Wood (see last blog), I drove a few miles east towards Dover to visit this RNR managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. It was one I had never visited so I wanted to have a look around. Here are some of the plants I found there. There were many pink Pyramidal Orchids on this RNR which is a steep hillside by the Lydden Rd off the A2. Amongst them was this white variant which occurs approximately just once in a thousand plants. Anacamptis pyramidalis var. alba I found several over the area, quite unusual. There were of course, hundreds of pink ones too. The yellow flower in the foreground is Kidney Vetch ( Anthyllis vulneraria) a food plant for the Small Blue butterfly. There were over a thousand Common Spotted Orchids too, a delight to see and this verge reminded me a bit of the A229 verge near Maidstone before it was "accidentally damaged". Dactylorhiza fuchsii I even managed to find an all white variant too. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var albiflora In amongst all of t