Holy cow! I want to live where you live 😃 .. Those are some incredible shots and really, REALLY beautiful wild specimens. The Anacamptis morio was my favorite due to the spotting on her petals. I loved that about the flowers. I have to say the Tongue-Orchid is quite interesting.. reminds me of a bird house or something.. really cool and I bet even cooler to see it in the wild like this.
Thank you for sharing.. I thoroughly enjoyed it 😁
Thanks :) Yes, the orchids come in many extravagant shapes and fortunately can be still found here on the coastal meadows ... but they are seriously endangered in my area while their habitat is disappearing, replaced by hotels, apartment buildings, recreational parks with invasive ornamental vegetation, golf courses and stuff like that ... it's an attractive seaside area ready to be turned into a mass media - induced vision of paradise ... brainless, unsophisticated tourism - related investments are awaiting.
But ok, if they disappear here, the species will survive in the less attractive places a bit more inland.
How very Sad and True is this statement. And maybe one day when the tourists stop coming and the golf courses are no longer walked on, those plants will make a return and reclaim what was originally theirs. Hopefully. It's a shame that this is the way of humans.
Thanks again for sharing a little piece of REAL Beauty.. Natural Beauty! 😊