OK so this year is going to be the year that I definitely see Violet Helleborines for the first time. Having spent countless hours searching Marline Wood near Hastings, and having unknowingly walked right past them last year, I was now armed with better directions. With some trepidation I approached the area, knowing it was probably too early for them to be in flower, and found two spikes in bud that looked like Violet Helleborines – the stems were really a kind of dark purple colour - and then a few more much smaller plants that were less coloured. So were these what I had been waiting for? I think so but the plan is to return in future to really see how they develop.
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