Anemones and snakes head frtillarty in the garden #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Gardening

An old silver birch tree, the silver bark wrinkled with age #ThickTrunkTuesday #SilverBirch

Trees flowering in Northumberland this week for #WildflowerHour There are catkins on the black popla trees, with the red male catkins and the female green catkins on separate trees. Bunches of green flowers on the Norway maples and white blossom on the blackthorns #treeflowers

Wood anemone among the daffodils #Spring #BloomScrolling #Daffodils

Primroses under a tree, signs of Spring for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Thin Walled Maze polypore on a fallen silver birch at Wylam, Northumberland #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

Kissing cousins or lunch, seven and twenty two spot ladybirds, the twenty two spot only eats fungus like the mildew on leaves, they both went their own way in the end #Ladybirds #Nature #Insects

Seven spot ladybirds snuggled into the new shoots of a pine tree #WildWebsWednesday #Ladybirds

Ivy covered trunks for #ThickTrunkTuesday the ivy leaves changing shape as the ivy grows, the leaves on flowering stems becoming ovate 💚

Glistening ink caps near the river Tyne at Wylam #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

Tiny bee on coltsfoot #WildWednesday #Wildflowers #Bees

An old oak tree on the path to Hagg Bank pond where there’s old willow trees with their feet in the water now because the water level is high. Some frogs are enjoying the muddy and damp conditions #ThickTrunkTuesday

Coltsfoot flowering, catkins and female flowers on alder trees, bees on dandelions and masses of blossom on the cherry plum and blackthorn trees, #SignsOfSpring for this weeks #WildflowerHour challenge

There are still some nice turkey tails about and the moss is doing well #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Moss

Lovely views and wildlife at Walltown Country Park, on Hadrians Wall walk, Northumberland #Hadrian’sWallWalk #Northumberland

Seven spot ladybirds emerging from hibernation in a small conifer in a sunny spot in the garden #ladybirds #WildWednesday #GardenInsects

Trees around the meandering river Cor at Corbridge, Northumberland, #ThickTrunkTuesday

Gorse, red dead nettle, lesser celandine and dog’s mercury flowering at Corbridge this morning #WildflowerHour

Trunks and branches for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Newly flowering this week, lesser celandine, honesty, chickweed and cherry plum #WildflowerHour

A walk along the Derwent walk from Ebchester to Shotley Bridge and Stereum ochraceoflavum fungi on the stump of a cut off part of a tree #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi

The guardian of the wood on this cold sunny day next to the river Tyne. Patches of velvet shank mushrooms growing amongst the rough stalked feather moss #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Moss

The common Galanthus nivalis snowdrop with the slender leaves and small green marks on the petals and Galanthus elwessi with broad pale green leaves wrapped around each other at the base deeper green marks on the petals #WildflowerHour

Tiptoe through the #Snowdrops #BloomScrolling

An old beech tree at Wallington with large burrs or tree-warts #ThickTrunkTuesday

Some fungi and lichen at Wallington , Northumberland today, jelly ears, netted crust, artist bracket and scaly pelt lichen #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Lichen

Spurge laurel flowering next to the river Tyne at Hexham this week #WildflowerHour

Lots of scarlet elf cups on a log next to the river Tyne #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Maybe a couple of slime moulds growing together. The rusty coloured Heterotrichia ferrunginea looking like fish roe and the black Metatrichia floriformis #Slimemould #Nature

Signs of life in this lovely old beech tree as the buds lengthen and the days get a little bit longer too #ThickTrunkTuesday

Only gorse flowering along the river at Corbridge today but lots of young wildflower plants thriving next to the pavement along the road. Looks like it will be a colourful summer #WildflowerHour

Lots of oysterlings on trees and twigs this week. I think they are variable oysterlings due to their size, it’s the most common but to be certain I’d have to look at the spores under a microscope to see if they are oval shaped, other oysterlings have round spores #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Pussy willow catkins breaking out on Tyneside today. The tree is goat willow but the catkins look like cats paws so it is also known as pussy willow #WildflowerHour

Lumpy bracket fungi on a fallen tree at Gibside, Gateshead #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

A bold beech tree at Gibside, Gateshead, some of the small trees have kept their autumn leaves #ThickTrunkTuesday

A stump with bleeding oak crust today at Gibside, Gateshead #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

Hazel and alder catkins on the trees next to the river Tyne and the little red female flowers on the hazel this week as well. Not many other wildflowers apart from the usual gorse flowering there this week for #WildflowerHour

The tiniest little mushroom on a tree stump on the Wylam riverside walk, stalked hairy fairy cups #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

A lovely tree with lots of small burrs on the trunk at Wallington, Northumberland. It has a massive root system which is starting to decay in the middle which is probably why the burrs are forming #ThickTrunkTuesday

Walked along the river at Wallington, Northumberland and came across a log pile with nice examples of fungi, hairy curtain crust, turkey tails, wrinkled crust and oak crust #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi

Flowers in the snow in the garden this morning #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Gardening

I think the bracket fungi might be Ganoderma adspersum for #FungiFriday this week. Spotted in a wood next to Sled Lane, Crawcrook. Also found a nice patch of Greater Featherwort and Hart’s tongue thyme moss on the walk #FungiFriends #Moss #Liverwort

Roses in my garden from June to September 🌹

An old alder tree, the trunk is covered in common tarcrust fungi, lots of young alder trees growing in the Tyne Riverside Country Park as well #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fungi

Tansy, gorse, white dead nettle and red campion flowering along the Tyne earlier in the week before the big freeze #WildflowerHour

Velvet shank, jelly ears, scarlet elf cups and turkey tails growing on stumps or fallen trees in the Tyne Riverside Country Park at Prudhoe, Northumberland #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

The sun has set on 2025, here are a few of my favourite sunsets. Happy New Year and all the best in 2026 to everyone 🎉✨

Trees, the background to our lives, changing with the seasons #ThickTrunkTuesday Goodbye 2025 🌳✨

The deceiver mushroom, flat leaved Scalewort a type of liverwort found on a tree, jelly ear fungi on a fallen tree unusually not an elder tree and neat feather moss found in a wood near West Wylam yesterday #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Moss

Wherever you go there’s gorse in flower somewhere along the roads in Northumberland #WildflowerHour