Aston Clinton Ragpits
A wonderful wildlife experience of chalkland flowers including greater butterfly-orchids and thousands of fragrant orchids.
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A wonderful wildlife experience of chalkland flowers including greater butterfly-orchids and thousands of fragrant orchids.
Join us for a Summer guided walk at Aston Clinton, looking for some of the chalk grassland flowers, butterflies and other wildlife.
Join us for a late spring guided walk at Aston Clinton, looking for some of the chalk grassland flowers, butterflies and other wildlife.
Join us for a late-summer guided walk at Aston Clinton, looking for some of the chalk grassland flowers, butterflies and other wildlife.
Join us for an autumn guided walk at Aston Clinton, looking for some of the chalk grassland flowers, butterflies and other wildlife.
Age 11-17? Join the Fens Youth Rangers to learn practical conservation skills for free.
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
This unassuming orchid is easily overlooked. It is found patchily across the UK, but has been declining for decades.
The Early purple orchid is one of the first orchids to pop up in spring. Look for its pinkish-purple flowers from April, when bluebells still carpet our woodland floors. Its leaves are dark green…
Annual meadow-grass is a coarse, vigorous grass that can be found on waste ground, bare grassland and in lawns. In some situations, it can be considered a weed.
The petals of the rare Lizard orchid's flowers form the head, legs and long tail of a lizard. They are greenish, with light pink spots and stripes, and smell strongly of goats! Spot this tall…
The pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green stem. It likes chalk grassland, sand dunes, roadside verges and quarries…