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

Glistening ink caps on the grass verge in the car park at the Metro Centre, Gateshead and oysterlings in the grass near Warkworth on the Northimmberland coast #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Holly trees, a Christmas edition of #ThickTrunkTuesday

The tiny female flowers on the hazel tree as the catkins open to release pollen #WildflowerHour

Cushioned grey grimmia moss on a wall, a mixture of hooded rosette lichen and common sunburst lichen on a tree and common pocket moss #WildWebsWednesday #Moss #Lichen

An old silver birch tree #ThickTrunkTuesday

Some yellow flowers this week for #WildflowerHour sticky groundsel, ragwort, buttercup and gorse. All flowering n ar the river at Corbridge this morning.

Witches butter fungi and lichen on a fallen branch #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

In time for Christmas, reindeer moss -Cladonia ranginformis growing with neat feather moss - Pseudoscleropodium purum on the Spetchells in the Tyne country park #WildWebsWednesday #lichen #Moss

A tree fusion, two trees next to each other have united to look like one. Will the larger group do the same I wonder #ThickTrunkTuesday

Small moss oysterling growing among the moss, pixie cup lichen and great scented liverwort on a wall next to the railway line in Hexham, Northumberland #MushroomMonday #Fungi #Lichen

Welsh poppy still flowering in the rain this week #WildflowerHour

Bumblebees visiting knapweed #wildflowers #bees

Some nice fungi in the woods at Pow Hill country park in County Durham yesterday, black turkey tail type, maybe smoky polypore, a mass of lovey candle snuff and an interesting flat brown bracket on a tree trunk #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Looking forward to the crocus, no signs yet but some bulbs are starting to sprout #BloomScrolling #Gardening #InsectThursday

Lovely lichens loving the wet weather we’ve had in the UK recently #WildWebsWednesday

Memories of summer with cosmos in the garden #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Bees

Paper bark maple and shades of bark for this weeks #ThickTrunkTuesday

Stroll along the river Tyne at Corbridge #Northumberland yesterday.

Greater periwinkle, daisy, stitchwort and dandelion, wildflower flower finds on walks around Northumberland this week for #WildflowerHour

Ferns and flowers, roses still with lots of buds and winter jasmine.

Lots of bracket fungi on a dead tree, gorgeous newly formed turkey tails and a lovely lipstick cup lichen growing on a stone #FungiFriday in a wood at Wallington Northumberland

In a sunny spot the other day the ivy was flowering and it was covered in wasps and blue bottles #InsectThursday

Sunny skies across Northumberland on yesterday’s walk

Frosty spindles in the lawn this morning #WildWebsWednesday #Fungi

Trees along the river Tyne, Northumberland #ThickTrunkTuesday

Jelly ears on the elder trees now and something jelly like but flatter on a stump that isn’t elder. Looking for scarlet elf cups in a place where I know they appear and couldn’t see any, taking a closer look at a yellow blobs maybe a slime mould I noticed the tiniest scarlet elf cups #MushroomMonday

Wild Angelica before the snow and tansy still looking good afterwards for #WildflowerHour this week

A very old sycamore for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Blue sky today at Gibside 🩵☀️

Mini mushrooms in the grass #MushroomMonday