Early summer landscape

Pyramidal orchids have started to flower in the nature conservation sections of the churchyard. Jonathan Iremonger

A number were spotted in Hen Wood yesterday, close to one of the main tracks.

There are a good many common spotted orchids now flowering towards the top of Limekiln Lane on Butser Hill

There are a few narrow leaved helleborines on the north side of the Bereleigh road, not so many as there have been other years. These are rare and protected species with one of their best sites being at Chappetts Copse north of Whitewool Farm. They are mixed in with an Read more…

All over the parish, and especially on Park Hill and Small Down, buttercups are blooming