Common Spotted Orchid

The Common Spotted orchid is the most common of all UK orchids and the one you are most likely to see. It grows in many different habitats including woodland, roadside verges, hedgerows, old quarries, sand dunes and marshes; sometimes so many flowers appear together that they carpet an area with their delicate, pale pink spikes. It is in bloom between June and August.
This one has been protected with it's own little fenced off area in Cottered. I love this kind of sentimental behaviour. Only in a village in England would you find something like this.