Early Purple Orchid-Gearranan

Garenin, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9NB

Type:Flora and Fauna - Machair

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The Early Purple Orchid is very distictive and eyecatching with a purple spike on slim stem with narrow lightly spotted leaves. It flowers from early May through to late June.

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  2. Dalmore/Dailmhor beach

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  7. This is the best preserved and most visited broch in the Outer Hebrides. It occupies a…

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  8. A broch is an iron-aged drystone hollow-walled structure found only in Scotland. Dun…

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  9. Traigh Dail Beag (Dalbeg) is a lovely small bay and beach on the west side of Lewis.

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  11. Reconstructed Norse Mill

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