💜💚🤍 Sweet Violet posy given by my neighbour on Friday, from her garden 🙏 Suffragette colours appreciated & noted #WildflowerHour 🌱

Happy #WildflowerHour to all 💜💚💛 Crocus in rare sunshine earlier this week. Primrose, Red Deadnettle & I spy a soggy ewe 🐻‍❄️👀 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Even the sloping top of a fence post is plenty sufficient for life to colonise, here in the form of a patch of navelwort.

Dog’s Mercury looking fresh for #WildflowerHour on the steep old lane bank 🍃🪨 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

🌼 Soggy Celandine for #WildflowerHour 💚 Such welcome little stars on a dark & wet day. Flowering on the old lane bank. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

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Early for #WildflowerHour Primrose promise 🌼 + Crocus tommasinianus 💜 Bluebell & Primrose foliage in the garden, also Cyclamen leaves @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

🪶🦠🕊️🍀🐦‍⬛🌱 We love #moss & #lichen Also sunshine 🌞 & blue sky 🩵

Below the radar, day after day, the growing mess on this planet #PlanetaryBoundaries #Pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hello #WildflowerHour No flower pics, but my dear friend brought apple tree prunings - with #lichen families intact 🪸 Birds are busy pecking at moss on our roof 🦠 Hope they find tasty delights - I enjoy seeing the fallen mossy cushions 🌱🪶🕊️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart

「Walk for Peace」

Raindrops in lichen. The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

✨🤗✨💛🙏🕊️✨🌼🌾✨ Would love to give ‘my’ Gorse a hug! Planted a few years ago, seedling grew slowly at first but now she helps slow down some fierce local winds. Pic 4 taken this week, the others are from 🌞 2025 🌱 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Breaking News: Denmark Renames Greenland to “Epstein Island” in Bold Bid to Make Donald Trump stop talking about it.

ALERT: Senate has approves resolution to (finally) hang Jan 6th plaque honoring police It'll hang in US Senate (w/ approval of GOP Leader John Thune) until Architect of Capitol finds permanent location It could hang in 3rd floor visitor area, where rioters marauded on Jan 6

A 1944 Pastoral: Land Girls Pruning at East Malling' by painter Evelyn Dunbar who recorded UK women's work during the Second World War #WomensArt

🌱For #WildflowerHour Red dead-nettle Vinca Sow thistle? Red Valerian Love & best wishes to all 💕🗓️🕊️

#BloomScrolling #Blessings Thankful for all mercies 🌱 May all beings be well, happy & at peace 💕🙏🕊️

#MushroomMonday Like pearls in the grass, from a recent sunny morning. ID welcome 🌱

The Walk for Peace monks have reached Georgia State line.

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

For final #WildflowerHour of 2025, Hawthorn berries & Mistletoe in a venerable Hawthorn tree ❣️ May all beings be well, happy and at peace ✨🙏🕊️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

To help counter the anti-Muslim and Islamophobic disinformation from Trump and his acolytes, I started a newsletter titled "Islam Today." And today I wrote about Jesus in Islam, and how much Muslims and Christians actually have in common. Enjoy! islamtoday.substack.com/p/jesus-in-i...

Well said!

#BloomScrolling 🌸🕯️🌺 Pink striped Camellia & bright orange seeds of Foetid Iris. Partner made Bûche de Noël for friends visiting 😋 Santa & reindeers left their foot/hoof prints in the icing 🪵🌲🦌🍫🎅🏽🎀🎄💝 #MerryChristmas

✨🌞✨ Solstice greetings for #WildflowerHour 🎀🌿💕🦠 Red Valerian, #moss & #lichen @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

I walked the line of HS2 from London to Birmingham. This is what I found: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... More widely, the scale of construction going on outside Birmingham was epic. All this striving for... no economic growth. The model isn't working anymore.

#TreeTuesday 🌸Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ - a mature Winter-flowering Cherry with a warm Ivy jumper. Planted by previous residents, possibly in 1970s? 🌱 #BloomScrolling

🌈🌺💜🌸 Salvia Amistad still flowering, to the delight of all, including a big Bee 🐝 Also Camellia beginning to bloom, lifting the spirits 🌱 #BloomScrolling #UKgardening

For #WildflowerHour sunshine blessings ✨ Sweet Violet 💜 Moss 🦠 Fern 🌿 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

🦠🪸☘️ Car is mucky, partner would like to clean it 🫧🪣🧽 but he’s only allowed after I try to relocate its #moss & #lichen colony 🙏🌱

Citizenship is a right, not a privilege. Our new briefing with @reprievehq.bsky.social reveals a shocking racial disparity in citizenship stripping practices. 3 in 5 people of colour are at risk of having their UK citizenship stripped, at the discretion of the Home Office 🧵👇

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling I permit the long tangles & gently ignore pruning advice until the very last rosebud has flowered. In a sheltered corner at our gate - no idea of variety/name? 💗🌱

The cover of this week’s issue, “Christmas Avenue,” by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet. www.newyorker.com/magazine...

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Well, these pics for #WildflowerHour were taken on frosty Friday - not been outside since!! Wild weather has been a chilly, wet, windy challenge. Yes, I am a tender perennial 😇 Hope everyone’s well & warm 🌱 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK. He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen. His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

🍂🍎✨Sadly no flowers for #WildflowerHour but a Saturday sunset with Crab Apples 🌱

#FlowersOnFriday 🌸💕🌺 #BloomScrolling 🌱

#FlowersOnFriday 🌸 Pink & cheery 💕 #BloomScrolling 🌱

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.