There are 42,865 of these local wildlife sites in England, ranging from large commons to tiny treasures such as the old tennis court at Gresham's school in Norfolk, which boasts more than 200 orchid spikes.
He always insisted their first meeting was at her 28th birthday party in 1943, at her flat in Bayswater in London, to which he had gone at someone else's invitation carrying one white orchid for her.
Del Rey wasn't the undiscovered organically grown rare orchid they had hoped.
He identified 26 new species of bird, more than anyone else now alive, and 38 species of orchid.
In its long review, the board considers everything from whether the deal threatens railway competition to whether it might increase noise or harm the eastern prairie fringed orchid (unlikely).
In a shipment of many similar-looking plants, it was rare for each permit to match each orchid precisely.In March 2004, five months after the raid, Mr Norris was indicted, handcuffed and thrown into a cell with a suspected murderer and two suspected drug-dealers.
THE lobby of the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, regarded as one of the world's finest hotels, smells of orchid blossom and money.
On his first day in the jungle he found a previously unrecorded orchid.
It was created 20 years ago when North Korea was trying to build up the younger Kim's credentials as heir apparent to his father (after whom the Kimilsungia, a type of orchid, is named).
A donkey orchid has grasslike leaves.
The orchid seed, however, has no endosperm.
