howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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beautiful weather today despite the forecast being cloudy.
was up the heights earlier and took a few snaps just in case alex fails in his mission and it is all concreted over.
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Due to be even hotter tomorrow apparently!
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Lovely photographs
Started off great - hope it continues.
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Brian Dixon
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thick fog up at aycliffe,cliffs cant be seen.and expecting some sort of delay due to an accident but not yet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks roger, same up at st martin's battery earlier brian.
looked down and could see absolutely nothing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a pleasant enough walk down from there though.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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talking open spaces howard,on the way up to canterbury this aftrnoon i notised some filds full of red [flowers,ie poppys] looked inpresive around the barem area.
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I noticed the ones at Barham too Brian, very pretty. I know it's not in this area but I was down at Greatstone earlier and the wild flowers growing along the beautiful natural beach are really gorgeous. I can't take a camera to work so couldn't take a photo but am going to try and get down there in our own car this weekend so will try then. I think wild flowers are the best
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There always seem to be a lot of poppies around the Barham area.
Lovely pictures Howard - which orchids are the white ones, do you know?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was rather hoping you would enlighten me kath, they are on military hill past drop redoubt road just before clarendon field.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the answer to your question kath, is they are not white, all about bad photography.
was up there again today.
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Obviously this orchid is variable in its colour.
Common spotted orchid perhaps. Thanks Jan.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Fragrant orchid? Didn't sniff, I'm afraid. (Taken late June, so still qualifies!)
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Reginald Barrington
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Could be the fragrant marsh orchid or just the common marsh orchid.
Wild orchids are flourishing these past few years, and are much easier to spot, though still quite rare and still highly protected.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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It was taken up chalky Foxhill Down, RB; would that tend away from the 'marsh' bit? I see pyramidal orchids along the cliffs, but not often these ones.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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It could, though the 'Marsh' is a bit of a misnomer. They love alkaline soils and just need a dampish bit of ground. It could also be the heath fragrant orchid or chalk fragrant orchid, even the experts can't agree on all the specifics. But they were all considered as subspecies of the same variety until fairly recently, when they were recognised as individual species in their own right.
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Weird Granny Slater wrote: I see pyramidal orchids along the cliffs, but not often these ones.
15th June.
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