Botanical Trip to Wales Part 1 - 21st June 2016
I wanted to visit a part of the UK where I would find new species, and as wild orchids started me off on my botanical quest, I thought I would travel to Wales to find the Fen Orchid, amongst others, which is a bit like the Musk Orchid mentioned in my previous blog. Over the last couple of months I researched nature reserves and places to visit and made some new friends online. This proved vital in obtaining accurate up to date information on where to go and what to see. In return, I helped or offered help to locate rare Kent plants. I set off just after 9am from North Kent with the intention of detouring en route to see Bee Orchid variants and arriving around 3pm in Wales. That was a pipe dream though, because, as usual, the M25 was at a standstill and I had to divert a few times, adding a lot of time to the journey. Anyway, I later arrived in middle England at my first destination which was a junction of two A roads cut through chalk with an orchid filled roundabout