🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 24 - mistletoe! So much to say about it and Izzy, Jess and Niamh tell you more. They have been so inventive with seasonal and Christmassy plants! #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #ChristmasPlants #mistletoe #plants #loveplants

Good heavens, we've already posted 59 #NewYearPlantHunt Group Hunts & details of more are pinging in every day! From Jersey to Stirlingshire, from Sheringham to Hayle and from Sligo to Sussex... check them out! It's also fine to head out with family & friends or go solo! bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Not long now until our 15th #NewYearPlantHunt! From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom. Resources to help us: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.

The Sainsburys Centre are asking people for personal stories about their connections with plants, to include in an exhbition (and some will also feature in a book). To find out more about this project and to submit a story, see: sainsburycentre.ac.uk/catkins/?fbc...

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Checked out our shiny new website yet? bsbi.org New to @bsbibotany.bsky.social or #WildFlowerID? We think you'll find it easier than ever to access resources, hear about events & learn more about wild plants in your area. Seasoned botanist? All your fave pages are still there + lots of new stuff!

We're proud to announce the winners of the 2025 BSBI Photo Competition! 3 categories - intrepid, inquisitive & inclusive - reflecting our Society's values. Winning pix 👇 by Ian Francis, Catriona Matheson & Edward Burden: congratulations! Full details & links to all entries: bsbi.org/photographic...

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

My Fiddleleaf Cactus is flowering again. I count 28 flowers and buds. #houseplants

My #FavouritePlant of the year is undoubtedly Grass of Parnassus seen for the first time (and many other times) while at the BSBI’s Annual Summer Meeting in Scotland this August. #wildflowerhour

#Fruits for #WildflowerHour Bramble, Sloe, Elderberry, then Oak (masses of Knopper galls this year), Sycamore, Sweet Chestnut (no Conkers on Horse Chestnut round here 🙁). Finally Hawthorn, Field Maple, Dogwood. All from brief walk to supermarket in Bradford-on-Avon

It’s looking a bit like autumn! Plump, luscious fruits are brightening the hedgerows like vibrant jewels, beautiful, but can you identify them? This week find the fruits of wild plants, snap away & post your lovely pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #fruits 🍒

Round-leaved Fluellen, Kickxia spuria seen with SRPG at Wellow, Somerset in a post-harvest field of stubble yesterday.

Red #berries on White Bryony seen with SRPG at Wellow yesterday

Sea Campion under Bamburgh Castle today.

This afternoon I enjoyed the detail in the flowers in the #GreatTapestryOfScotland

My day 4 highlight from the #BSBI Annual Summer Meeting in Scotland was Field Gentian, Gentianella campestris.

My highlight from day 3 of the #BSBI Annual Summer Meeting in Scotland was Sagina nodosa, Knotted Pearlwort with Parnassia palustris,Grass-of-Parnassus, open and in bud. Not a bad assemblage.

Having a fantastic week at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social summer meeting. Finding a fantastic range of sedges and grasses. Highlight of my week is finding Carex x boenninghausiana, the hybrid between remota and paniculata. Hierochloe odorata, Calamagrostis stricta and it's hybrid C. x gracilescens.

Sabulina (Minuartia) verna, Spring Sandwort, at St Abb‘s Head on day 2 of #BSBI Annual Summer Meeting.

This southerner at the #BSBI Annual Summer Meeting in Scotland was delighted 🤩 to finally see Grass of Parnassus on Day One at Blackpool Moss. No mean feat to photograph it in the wind as Storm Floris was sweeping in.

This wasn’t really this week, but this recent intrepid harebell on a slag heap at Priddy Mineries deserves a spotlight in the #HarebellChallenge for #Wildflowerhour , doesn’t it?

Today I had a go at getting to grips with those tricky Epilobiums. Here is Hoary or Hairy Willowherb, Epilobium parviflorum, as seen today in VC8 near VC6 border at Alfred‘s Tower, Stourhead with #wiltsBotSoc #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

Great habitats at Priddy Mineries on yesterday’s #WiltsBotSoc visit, wonderful plant communities and Euphrasia just about everywhere.

Ivy-leaved Bellflower, Wahlenbergia hederacea, as seen with #SRPG today on Exmoor. Unfortunately, no sun to coax the flowers out. #wildflowerhour

Black-tailed Skimmer seen at Priddy Mineries today.

Harebells at Priddy Mineries, Somerset today.

🥵 Too hot out in the sun botanising today. Instead, I spent a lovely day focused on Snake’s-head Fritillaries at @floodplainmead.bsky.social craft workshop in Cricklade. Results are not too shabby given my usually poor artistic skills. 😃 Thank you to Alice, Emma and Olivia.

I’m fascinated by the daily unfurling fronds of my Sago Palm, Cycas revoluta. #houseplants

🌱🌳 Planting trees isn't just about tossing seeds or seedlings in the ground. It’s about growing them in the right ways. Here's some #GenerationRestoration guidance to make every tree count.

Lovely plants in between the anthill gardens, too: Nodding Thistle, Fragrant Orchid, Betony, and Dyer’s Greenweed, to name but a few. #WiltsBotSoc on Wylye Down today

Lovely day with WBS at Wylye. The anthills were colourfully dressed. Here with Wild Thyme.

A few of us mad Wilts Bot Soc folks met up in the heat wave this morning. But we were rewarded with finding these monsters. Orobanche elatior forma citrina.

Last week our good friend @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social launched his new book #UrbanPlants so we thought it would be a great theme for #WildflowerHour! Let’s celebrate our wild urban flowers for this week’s challenge! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

We were delighted to be part of this team, with Kevin, our Head of Science, offering advice & support! @bsbiscience.bsky.social

Knotted Clover, Trifolium striatum, from BSBi/LNH Society walk at Home Park near Hampton Court at the weekend.

The ornate Herbarium Cabinet by Tess and Alfred Newall drew admiration during London Craft Week - but tucked away in our library is “Herbie,” the original 18th-century herbarium cabinet designed by Linnaeus to hold 14,000 specimens. A quiet witness to scientific history. Read more: bit.ly/4mqap6v

It’s the #ChelseaFlowerShow2025 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?😉🏆

The WBS trip to Suffolk is sadly 😭 over but ended on a high with Orchis militaris, Military Orchid. Happy to have seen so many species new to me but exhausted 🥱 today.

So I finally joined Bluesky. I'm just back from an amazing Wiltshire flora group residential trip to the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Some amazing plants, but Aristolochia hirta, breckland birthwort was the most out there plant we saw. Thanks @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for showing us around.

Lovely Blysmus compressus at Market Weston Fen. Definitely a hands and knees jobbie there.

Bee on Sea Kale at Dunwich Heath beach seen on Wiltshire Botanical Society long weekend away in Suffolk.

Two long awaited tiny plants: Annual Knawel Scleranthus annuus and Perennial Knawel Scleranthus perrenis from the WiltsBotSoc weekend in Suffolk - with much help from @bramblebotanist.bsky.social who is incredibly generous with his time and knowledge #WildflowerHour

A great few day pointing at special Breckland plants with Wilts Bot Soc: Military Orchid Orchis militaris, Purple Milk-Vetch Astragalus danicus, Breckland Birthwort Aristolochia hirta and Rare Spring Sedge Carex ericetorum #wildflowerhour

Common Rock-rose, the rare White Rock-rose with insect visitors and the pale yellow hybrid seen with the Somerset Rare Plants Group at Purn Hill this week. #wildflowerhour

For the #wildflowerhour #speedwell challenge: Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Thyme-leaved Speedwell and Wood Speedwell.

For those taking part in this week’s #speedwell challenge our crib sheet is just perfect! Especially commissioned by us & brilliantly executed by @NatureLark.bsky.social Start by looking at the floral arrangement to help work out which speedwell you have found. Happy flower hunting! 🌿

Superb freshly minted Marsh Fritillary seen today with Wiltshire Botanical Society at Great Chalfield #butterfly

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