News Headline

Country diary: beauty and the bee orchids

Source
Guardian (UK)

Publication Date
2020-03-31

I push the spade beneath the neat rosette of leaves, trying carefully not to castrate the plant. Castrate may seem an odd choice of word, I am after all just digging up a plant to move it, but hidden in the soil, underneath that Garden of Eden fan of greenery, there are two oval tubers, and they look just like testicles.

Content
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/31/country-diary-beauty-and-the-bee-orchids