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BBC Wildlife

May 2022

Step into a rare lowland flower meadow and lose yourself among dreamy wild orchids

- Mike Dilger

ORCHID MEADOWS

SURELY NO OTHER HABITAT HARKENS back to a bygone era more than a lowland meadow brimming with orchids. Despite providing perhaps Britain's finest pinkish-purple spectacle, the disappearance of 97 percent of all our orchid meadows since World War II is a tragic and all-too-familiar tale. In a battle that pitched flower-rich meadows against both rapidly changing farming methods and the needs of an ever-expanding population, there was only ever going to be one winner.

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