Summary:
Reserves Manager Mark Vallance talks us through the orchid-strewn glades and chalk grassland of Homefield Wood, where one orchid in particular commands attention
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Homefield Wood is renowned for its orchids but has quite a range of habitats. Can you talk us through them?
The nature reserve is approximately half woodland, half grassland. The grassland is in two areas: a larger meadow as you walk onto the site then, as you head through, smaller pockets of grassland that form glades within the woodland.