Common Blue

An uneventful drive down to Sussex with time for a walk from the Bo-peep car park along a very breezy Bostal Hill before heading to our accommodation. 

Lots of pristine Common Blues on sheltered south-facing banks, along with several very worn Wall butterflies. The Fragrant Orchids were just coming into bloom - lovely to see so many, as well as a good colony of Twayblade on the edge of e Beech plantation.

One of the biggest surprises was finding several pants of Garden Pink growing on a chalk grassland knoll - these were first recorded from the area in the 1930s and are still doing well!