Jun 262019
 

Platanthera bifolia

Lesser Butterfly Orchid 	Platanthera bifolia

The first time I saw this orchid was in South Connemara when I went to take my niece on a day out from Irish College. We went to the beautiful Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín) near Carraroe and I was rewarded with an amazing selection of wild flowers growing on the sandy machair grassland in between the massive rocks which litter the South Connemara landscape.  Today I found one in my own garden, in part of the lawn that we have allowed to grow and go wild.