Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes

The prettiest, showiest, pinkest wild orchid in West Sussex is now on full display in the woods, meadows, downs and roadside verges. It won't last for ever so now is the moment to get out and see it.

I am quite sure there are many readers lucky enough to have the common spotted orchid growing right next to them on their lawn.

I do hope if so that this beauty is not regarded as some sort of weed which interrupts the straight lines set as parameters by the human mind. Machines like lawnmowers and tractors set this motorway madness into the human mind and it is a curse to nature.