More than just irises of course....

It wasn't just irises at the orchid fields of course. As the name suggests other things grow there too...


This is ragged robin, another moisture lover (it is very wet this year - my swank new fivefinger shoes got soaked through).


Loose-flowered orchids are the plants that give these fields their name. I'm still looking for that elusive white morph. There are also a lot of the buttercup species shown at bottom left in this field adding a yellow hue.

I've photographed the above individual for the past three years; it's a hybrid between the southern marsh orchid (D. praetermissa) and one of the smaller common Dactylorhiza species like the D. fuschii below....

 

Last but not least is this delicate little bugle peaking through the grass....