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Lucky Lady!

 

And all I get is dandelions... :D :D

 

all i get is chickweed and cleavers!!

 

Lucky, lucky lady. I've been searching for the bee orchid for years and never found one so I have never even hoped to find a wasp orchid1 Perhaps when I'm 92?

 

Lovely isn't it, and as you say, lucky lady.

Hornbeam you've got many years yet to find one then? :D

 

Have just been googling about the Wasp Orchid and found this interesting bit of information:


As a result, the orchid even has an opening in the proper place that the male wasp can just reach when it mistakenly tries to copulate with the flower, thinking it is a female wasp. Then, having done what he came to do, the naughty wasp flies on to another attractive flower, little knowing that he has been tricked into carrying some of the first flower's pollen with it, so that the orchids can achieve their aim of cross-pollination. Of course the orchid doesn't actually have an aim -- it's just natural selection at work again.

 

I have just been told by Mrs Pal that the Lady was her Captain in the Guides....and Mrs Pal still has her Gardening Badge too :D

 

BUT just supposing she had been some ignorant XXX and didn't know what she had found?????

What then?

 

She would probably have dug it up as a weed!