Hiding in the Grass...

It's taken us most of today to mow a rather overgrown lawn, after spending a couple of weeks away from Braye. (The person who could patent an effective lawn suppressant for such times would be a wealthy soul!)

However, it has its compensations and we've just found one of them - luckily in time to stop the blades of the mower...

We believe it to be a Narrow-leaved Helleborine, Cephalanthera hongifolia, one of the orchid family. This is the first one we've ever found in the garden and a very welcome addition to the bee orchids and lizard orchids already flourishing here.