Beautiful yet mercurial’ fen orchid brought back from brink of extinction - The orchid’s increasing population in Britain is ...

Recently I invited a friend over for high tea. But when I opened the front door to greet her, she was holding a gorgeous moth orchid, its arc of waxy white blooms balancing gracefully on a long stake.

The orchid family contains more species than any other family of flowering plants. They have adapted to climates ranging from the Arctic Circle to the equator, but most of the orchids we grow as ...