Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum and Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum. Cadnam, New Forest on Sunday. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Garden treasures on a sweltering evening. Ground-pine Ajuga chamaepitys, Cut-leaved Germander Teucrium botrys, Lesser Calamint Clinopodium nepeta, Opposite-leaved Pondweed Groenlandia densa.

Restharrow Ononis repens in pure white. A first for me yesterday on the way out for a few afternoon drinks in the sunshine. Leckford, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Western Willow Spreadwing Chalcolestes viridis and ovipositing signs. Rownhams, Hampshire. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Scarce Bluetail Ischnura pumilio from a duck (dog) pond nr Rownhams, Hampshire today. Several males seen but no orangey females unfortunately. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Classic New Forest bog scene. Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, Cross-leaved Heath Erica tetralix, White Beak-sedge Rhynchospora alba. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I don't usually bother going to see this lovely plant until very late summer, but I was passing a classic site today for this grazed common specialist. First flowers appearing on Small Fleabane Pulicaria vulgaris. Cadnam, New Forest. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bumper display of Ivy-leaved Bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea in a damp, tussocky verge nr Furzley, New Forest today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Branched Bur-reed Sparganium erectum and Bristle Club-rush Isolepis setacea. New Forest, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The first Bog Orchid Hammarbya paludosa that I've seen for a few years. New Forest, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Spiked Water-milfoil Myriophyllum spicatum abundant and flowering in silty gravel on Dockens Water, New Forest today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Both native Skullcaps - Scutellaria galericulata and S. minor - along the beautifully peaceful, woody, and wiggly Dockens Water, New Forest, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Keeled Skimmers Orthetrum coerulescens posing nicely on wet heath nr Linwood, New Forest, Hampshire today. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Surrounded by Small Red Damselflies Ceriagrion tenellum today. Dockens Water nr Linwood, New Forest, Hampshire. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

On Friday I visited this boggy heath nr Lyndhurst, New Forest; the original location for Summer Lady's-tresses Spiranthes aestivalis. Following periods of relentless collecting, and population ups-and-downs, the last plant was seen in 1940. A real ghost orchid. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Ivy-leaved Bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea was a lovely find on a shady New Forest verge on Friday. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Marsh Woundwort Stachys palustris from the garden today.

Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa, Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Azure Bluet Coenagrion puella, Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum, Common Bluet Enallagma cyathigerum around garden and village ponds just now. Central Hampshire. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

A great showing from some very obliging Red-veined Darters Sympetrum fonscolombii at Southampton Common, Hampshire this morning. Also Small Redeye Erythromma viridulum, and Emperor Anax imperator. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Small Redeye Erythromma viridulum on a baking New Forest pond at Rush Bush yesterday afternoon. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

"During the '76 heatwave...'

Amphibious Bistort Persicaria amphibia on the Thames upstream of Inglesham. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Only place to be today was on the water. Flowering-rush Butomus umbellatus on the Thames at Inglesham. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

White Bryony Bryonia dioica and its lovely little associate the Bryony Mining-bee Andrena florea. Hayling Island, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Chalk Fragrant Orchid Gymnadenia conopsea and Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii. Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Distracted by football. Here's Knapweed Broomrape Orobanche elatior on a scorching Hampshire hillside yesterday. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The magnificently dapper Lunar Hornet Clearwing Sesia bembeciformis to lure at Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire. A 50yr itch scratched for one of our volunteer BioBlitz recorders today! @hantsbic.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Bryony Mining-bee Andrena florea. Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire.

Fabulous Musk Orchids Herminium monorchis at their Hampshire stronghold this afternoon. Thousands upon thousands of orchids of all sorts. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

French Oat-grass Gaudinia fragilis was a new one for me today. Nr Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Come and join us at @havantborough.bsky.social's #Bioblitz on Sunday! It's at Northney Common, Hayling Island, and only a 10 minute walk from the nearest bus stop (Stagecoach 31). How many species will we record?

Garden goodies today. Nodding Catchfly Silene pendula, White Horehound Marrubium vulgare, Field Woundwort Stachys arvensis, Cut-leaved Germander Teucrium botrys, Weasel's Snout Misopatesorontium, Spreading Hedge-parsley Torilis arvensis.

Brighter than Harry Kane's massive shiny goal-scoring forehead, it's Grass Vetchling Lathyrus nissolia. Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Slender Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus angustissimus and Hairy Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus subbiflorus from a little post-work stop at Otterbourne, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sea-milkwort Lysimachia maritima and Heath Groundsel Senecio sylvaticus. West Sussex, yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Azure Bluet Coenagrion puella and Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula from the garden pond today. Central Hampshire. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Beautiful display of Marsh Helleborines Epipactis palustris in West Sussex today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Hard-grass Parapholis strigosa (with Sea-heath Frankenia laevis) on the Sussex coast. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sea Clover Trifolium squamosum all but over, and Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum already flowering. Warblington, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Long-bracted Sedge Carex extensa and Distant Sedge Carex distans in a West Sussex dune slack today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A trip to the Sussex coast to reacquaint myself with the beautiful Sand Catchfly Silene conica. Lucky timing as only a handful of flowers visible. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Frustrating morning trying to get close to Narrow-leaved Water-dropwort Oenanthe silaifolia nr Pulborough, W Sussex. Combination of recent grazing and no grazing meant that plants just weren't where I'd anticipated them. Telephoto lens was needed for only examples I found! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Just a single Gladiolus ilyricus (or gallaecicus?) at a reliable site in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Might be a poor year fir this iconic species. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Duke of Argyll's Tea Plant Lycium barbarum at Hurst Castle, Hampshire today. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Two very scarce grasses of sandy arable in SW Hampshire today. Lesser Quaking-grass Briza minor and Nit-grass Gastridium ventricosum. Usually restricted to whatever margin is left, this year the whole field is fallow and these plants have responded very well. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fiddle Dock Rumex pulcher on a verge at Sowley, New Forest, Hampshire. Always looks slightly untidy. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

More Little-Robin Geranium purpureum ssp forsteri than you can shake a stick at. Hurst Spit, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Two superstar peas from the sun-, sea-, and wind-blasted shingle of Hurst Spit, Hampshire. Hare's-foot Clover Trifolium arvense and Rough Clover Trifolium scabrum. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

There is one patch of Sea Pea Lathyrus japonicus in the whole of Hampshire; at Hurst Spit nr Lymington. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yellow Centaury Cicendia filiformis in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Small population on a roadside damp flush near Holmsley. Always tiny, sometimes more so. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social