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[ellarien]

Orchis Wyming Brook, Sheffield, England, July 2008

It's been a good year for these -- we saw lots at Chatsworth, and even more around the bottom end of Wyming Brook -- including a whole stand of them growing in a no-access field belonging to the water company. (Atavistically, I want to call it the Water Board, but it isn't, these days.) They seem to like long, damp grass.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

They seem to like long, damp grass

They should be having a good year then, there's plenty of it around at the moment, especially in my back garden. :)

[ellarien]

Here, too. I think we've had at least some rain every day for the last fortnight, with the exception of last Sunday and (marginally) Monday.

Last year I was home for two weeks in August and it never rained at all, so I suppose this is making up for it. It has been getting me down a bit, though. (Good summer days here are about like nice winter days in Tucson, but longer. Bad summer days ... are a lot like middling-bad Tucson winter days.)