oh, nice.no mow may was good for the daisies and skutchgrass in our lawn, but also threw this up; a twayblade. it's a common orchid, but first time i'd seen one in our garden.
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I was living by Charles Fort for a bit, and I'd walk alongside it out the coast every day. There were was a rake of marsh orchid (I think - some class of orchid) growing along the side where the stream flowed.
I'd come down every day, marveling at this carpet of flowering orchid, and think how well they were keeping it, leaving it alone, perfect.
Turned out they were just waiting for a dry spell so they could run the mower through the place without it getting bogged down. One morning the entire lot was mowed to the ground.
I felt a bit sick.