I had just tested the PH levels of the the water in the little river I’d been walking alongside for most of the day, only to discover that it was leaning more towards the acidic, so I wasn’t really all that surprised to stumble across this pair of gorgeous Heath Spotted Orchids growing out of a clump of Sphagnum Moss (typically) on the river bank.It always fascinates me that, like its cousin the Common Spotted Orchid, this plant has such beautiful flowers, but that the leaves look somehow vaguely unwholesome due to the dark spot-like blemishes appearing all over them!I’m getting the general impression so far in 2008 by the way, that it doesn’t appear to be much of an Orchid year. In fact, I’ve only had thirty-one actual sightings of Orchids so far covering four different species growing in the wild!