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Botanical illustration of False Oat-grass showing spreading and compressed inflorescence, and swollen basal nodes.

Quaking grass Briza media with detail of ligule and flower

White helleborine Cephalanthera damasonium

Southern Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa

Pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis

Diagram of a Pollinia and within an orchid flower

Marsh helleborine Epipactis palustris growing in grass

Heath spotted orchid Dactylorhiza maculata with pale flowers and showing long spotted leaves

Green winged orchid Anacamptis morio

Early purple orchid Orchis mascula with purple flowers and spotted leaves

Common spotted orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii with spotted leaves and flowers on show

Birds nest orchid Neottia nidus-avis flowering spike

Bee orchid Ophrys apifera entire plant with flowers

Taking soft wood cuttings and planting them on once they’ve become established in a covered flower pot