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| Green-flowered Helleborine |
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| Broad-leaved Helleborine |
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| Marsh Fragrant Orchid |
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| Marsh Fragrant Orchid |
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| Marsh Fragrant Orchid |
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| Marsh Fragrant Orchid |
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| Marsh Helleborine |
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| Marsh Helleborine |
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| Marsh Helleborine |
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| Marsh Fragrant Orchids |
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| Green-flowered Helleborine |
Friday, July 17, 2020
Nob End - 17th July
I have been meaning to pay a visit to Nob End near Bolton for the past few months and finally got around to it. This is the site of a former chemical factory that used the old Leblanc process for the manufacture of sodium carbonate or washing soda as it is more commonly known. It is a relatively small area but there is one field that has hundreds of Marsh Fragrant Orchids and thousands of Marsh Helleborines together with a few Common Spotted Orchids. In the neighbouring wood there are Broad-leaved, Dune and Green-flowered Helleborines including an astonishing example of the latter with eight spikes containing many flowers.