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Tag Archives: orchid hunter
A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (vi)
Our final full day on Rhodes began, for the guides, with a pre-breakfast expedition a few miles out of the village following up a rumour of a colony of yet another delectable Ophrys, Ophrys lucis. The directions we’d been given … Continue reading
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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (v)
I think we all felt we’d earned a day of wall to wall sunshine by this point, and our fifth day on Rhodes certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard. It was, in stark contrast to the previous day, proper T-shirt … Continue reading
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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (iv)
If our preoccupation with the weather had, hitherto, seemed stereotypically British, that had not been without good cause – our destinations on the preceding two days had been determined wholly by reading the forecast auguries and, with a degree of … Continue reading
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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (iii)
Another wet day dawned in Rhodes though, with a weather eye firmly on the local forecasts, we would not find our orchid hunting too badly impaired by the elements. We made the decision to swap coasts today, and struck east … Continue reading
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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (ii)
We were up early in the morning of our second day on Rhodes, keen to make the best we could of our time on the island, and fired up by the previous day’s strong start to our orchid hunting. It … Continue reading
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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (i)
Our arrival on Rhodes was tumultuous, to say the least – we flew in on the wings of a violent storm that closed airports across the eastern Mediterranean, descending through black clouds towards the island before, to our dismay, being … Continue reading
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Not remotely spooky
My next blog post was meant to be all about a summer that’s been largely spent working with butterflies in France, Greece and Spain – a sun-drenched, joyous examination of a strand of my developing life as a wildlife tour … Continue reading
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Tagged bloomsbury, epipogium aphyllum, france, ghost, ghost orchid, jon dunn, orchid, orchid hunter, orchid summer, orchids, pyrenees
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Bog orchids, home and away
Once again, it’s been way too long since I last took a moment to write a personal blog post – though, lately, I’ve started to write for the lovely folk at Promote Shetland about two of my favourite things in … Continue reading
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Tagged alaska, bog orchid, bogs, butterwort, carnivorous plants, greenwings, jon dunn, leica, orchid, orchid hunter, orchid summer, orchids, platanthera, promote shetland, rare flowers, rare plants, shetland, sundew, wildflowers
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Orchids in Rhodes
This blog post is long overdue – indeed, to the point where I’ve actively shied away from logging in and writing it, which should tell you just how ashamed I am of my tardiness! I do have an excuse, though… … Continue reading
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Tagged greenwings, holiday, holidays, jon dunn, ophrys, orchid, orchid hunter, orchid odyssey, orchid summer, orchids, rhodes, the orchid hunter, wildlife tour, yiannis christofides
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The Ophrys question
When I set out to see all of Britain and Ireland’s orchid species in the course of researching Orchid Summer, seeing all of our native Ophrys orchids did not appear to offer an enormous challenge – we have, after all, just … Continue reading
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