Flowers of the Yorkshire Dales 5
Here we have another public thouroughfare where a myriad of different flowers and fauna can be seen, including these Fragrant Orchids, Butterfly Orchid, Common Eyebright, Goatsbeard and Yellow Rattle all growing side by side, mid June.
A superb Northern Marsh Orchid alongside the footpath in Upper Teesdale, many thousands of these grow in the same place, infact there are so many you can touch them as you walk past, a truly unspoilt area of the Dales.
A lovely Red Admiral butterfly that stopped in the early spring sunshine to warm up before going about his bussiness, every time we walk past this tree its known as the red admiraltree, our little local twist.
Forest in Teasdale near Ladyrake mine if you stop and get out of your car one of the most wonderful sights will greet you, here there are traditional meadows with thousands of these Birdseye Primroses at your feet and stretch as far as the eye can see, mid June onwards.
In the same meadow are these spectacular Green Winged Orchids, they are so close to the road you don't even have to step into the field.
All over our area is a plethora of these tiny wild strawberries, but you would have to pick an awful lot to get a pot of jam, my grandfather used to eat these to ward off a cold, the taste is rather unique when fully ripe.
Another rarity to be found here in the dales and one in the most unlikely of places, again right next to the footpath in a sandy hollow is the Yellow Star of Bethlehem, these are so rare I will keep it a secret, this is a large colony in some years depending on how much the area floods.
The Sneezwort can be seen in mid June in upper Teesdale growing right next to the wire fence near Low Force swingbridge, quite common but totally unique and medicinal also.
Foxgloves growing in a field in Upper Swaledale with the very beginning of the River Swale.
A rare find on a day out at Pickering in Yorkshire, along the old Dalby Forest road.
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