It’s the #ChelseaFlowerShow2026 this week so why don’t we have a #WildFlowerShow for #WildflowerHour? Find wildflowers or combinations of several wildflower species looking absolutely spectacular & share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm! I wonder, if there will be a best-in-show?😉🏆

White Plume Moth caterpillar on the underside of a Bindweed leaf, which is its usual food plant. #WildWebsWednesday

Spindle Ermine caterpillars on Spindle of course! 😄 #WildWebsWednesday

A mass of Herb Robert in flower🩷 #WildflowerHour

Some genuine #TinyPlants plus some just tiny due to where they were growing: Knotted Hedge Parsley, Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Field Madder (my favourite!), Wall Speedwell, Common Storksbill, Procumbent Pearlwort & Cut-leaved Cranesbill #WildflowerHour

Some of our #wildflowers are so incredibly minuscule they are very easy to miss! This week’s challenge is to get your specs 🤓 on & see if you find any #tinyplants in bloom. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm! Happy teeny flower spotting! 🧐🌸🌿

Cauchas rufimitrella (Long-horn moth) on Garlic Mustard & showing off its magnificent ‘horns’!

Gall on Hawthorn leaf caused by aphid Dysaphis crataegi. #WildWebsWednesday

Lots of carrots but no peas I’m afraid! 🤭 Masses of Cow Parsley and Comfrey growing in an area left wild behind my house. 😍 #CarrotsAndPeas #WildflowerHour

A few wildflowers from this week: Spindle, Welted Thistle, Wall Speedwell, Goldilocks Buttercup, Hawthorn & Dove’s-foot Cranesbill. #WildflowerHour

Find a member of the pea or carrot family, that’s the challenge this week from Wild Flower Hour! Don’t be tempted to eat them up though, as some members of the carrot family are extremely poisonous ☠️ Post your finds for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #carrotsandpeas!

Bulbous Buttercups in a local meadow. 💛 #ButtercupChallenge #WildflowerHour

Meadow, Creeping, Bulbous, Goldilocks, Celery-leaved? Do you know your buttercups? That is the challenge this week from Wild Flower Hour! Post your pics for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #buttercupchallenge!

Cinnamon Bug on Cow Parsley #WildWebsWednesday

Antarctica’s ice shelfs hold back enough freshwater, were it to melt, to raise the sea level by 58m.

Excellent report on shameful behaviour by England regulator. Well done @wildjustice.bsky.social @kierachapman.bsky.social Defra Board — why? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Seen this week for #HedgerowChallenge - Hawthorn, Field Maple, Elder, White Campion, Cow Parsley, Ground Ivy and Garlic Mustard. #WildflowerHour

What can you find flowering in a hedgerow? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Have a good rummage in a hedge (get ready for the funny looks 👀) & share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #HedgerowChallenge! Happy hedge-diving!

Platycherius sp hoverfly enjoying Garlic Mustard. #WildWebsWednesday

For #CabbageChallenge this week: Hairy Bittercress, Shepherd’s Purse, Charlock *think*, Honesty, Garlic Mustard, Thale Cress & Rape *think*. #WildflowerHour

Lovely day visiting my daughter in Leeds & was interesting to see what’s flowering in her local area. From top left Bogbean, Apple blossom, Greater Stitchwort, Hawthorn & Cowslips. Swathes of Honesty, Garlic Mustard & Cuckooflower for this week’s #CabbageChallenge #wildflowerhour

Find a flower with 4 free petals arranged in a cross shape & you’ve found a member of the Brassicaceae! It’s a huge family & the challenge this week for #Wildflowerhour is to find a wild or naturalised member of the #CabbageFamily in flower. Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

Peacock butterfly enjoying the plentiful Ground Ivy at the moment. #WildWebsWednesday

Bluebells, Greater Stitchwort and Lesser Celandine at the edge of woodland. #WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour

First Early Purple Orchid, yesterday and today, and the third image I don't know! Can anyone enlighten me? I've never noticed this bush/tree at this stage before. #wildflowerhour #wildflowers

What can you find flowering in woodland? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Post your finds using the hashtag #WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower-hunting!

Little and large! Two 7-spot and one 14-spot gathered together on a Nettle leaf. #Ladybirds #WildWebsWednesday

Mona, in Anglesey hit 25°C today. What this BBC story doesn't tell you is that today is the warmest 7th April since records began, in 1853.

Assumed False Oxlip growing in a churchyard where there are masses of Primroses and just a few Cowslips. #WildflowerHour

Cowslips growing on our village green. #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour

Quck - help Swifts swiftly www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Have you seen a Cowslip in bloom this year? This week’s challenge is to find one and share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday using the hashtag #CowslipChallenge. Happy flower hunting! 💛

Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

Spotted this assumed Osier, Salix viminalis, in flower at a local NR. Basket Willow has been used in basketry for centuries. Basket making even pre-dates pottery so it could potentially have been an important plant for Neolithic people. #StoryPlants #WildflowerHour

Brighton Marina is applying — again — to dump dredged sediment at Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone.  Dredging may be necessary. But dumping 1000s of tonnes of sediment in a protected area is not.  Use our template email to object. https://f.mtr.cool/tgghjihrta

#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

As its not on today's theme, I'm going early with #bsbi #wildflowerhour. These are completely native daffs in a small reserve in Gloucestershire in the golden triangle, which was stunning yesterday. One person seeing this was nearly in tears...

As we wait for the arrival of spring to catch up in some places, something a bit different for this week’s challenge! Many wild plants have interesting stories to tell. Find one & share your pics with a fascinating fact using hashtag #storyplants for #wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm!

Pollen beetles love Dandelions! #WildWebsWednesday

Mistletoe growing high up in this tree. Not sure what species, any suggestions? #WildWebsWednesday

#WhiteFlowers seen this week - Hairy Bittercress, Sweet Violet, a very pale Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Shepherd’s Purse, Daisy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum & Three-cornered Leek #WildflowerHour

Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Puffin “wreck” on French/Iberian coasts getting zero media coverage. A major disaster. Needs to be covered by the mainstream media. @markavery.bsky.social @theguardian.com @birdtrack.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @jbfarthing.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social

#SignsOfSpring this week: Coltsfoot, a few early Blackthorn flowers (old sloe in view), Elder leaf burst and a soggy Lesser Celandine. #WildflowerHour

Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The Trump administration on Tuesday took the first ​step toward loosening regulations ‌that protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from ​vessel strikes. TAT: [Attacking science]

Lesser Celandine, white Sweet Violet, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Hairy Bittercress, Ground Ivy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum, Dandelion & Snowdrops #TheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

A Pollen Beetle feeding on Crocus pollen. #WildWebsWednesday

Lots of 7-spot ladybirds waking up in the Spring like weather and emerging from Ivy to sun themselves. #WildWebsWednesday

The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉 More views at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...