Too late for early purple?

A different day… The warm sunny weather ended (as it so often does) with thundery rain yesterday evening, and now it’s cooler and grey, with more rain to come. It’s a dry morning though – let’s see how the orchids are doing on the Wenlock Edge. We had high hopes after yesterday’s outing, but there were only a few, in the woods with the last remnants of the bluebells. Are we too late for the early purple orchids?