I was amazed the other day on a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh to find in the plant shop a whole range of hardy orchids on sale. In amongst the usual varieties of non native cypripediums I was amazed to see that the British native Marsh Helleborine ( Epipactis palustris) was on sale! So of course after seeing them growing wildly on Lindisfarne the other week I had to buy some. Today I planted it in a large sunken pot in a damp area of the flower border in semi shade. I hope that they will grow and flower next summer and eventually bloom in the same way that they did on Lindisfarne!