Trifolium glomeratum, found on a sandy bank in a meadow on the Isle of Wight. Exquisite flower!

Wood Clubrush in marshland, Alverstone, Isle of Wight. Love this plant!

Marsh cinquefoil on the Isle of Wight today, at Alverstone Meads

Meadow thistles today in a damp hay meadow in Hampshire.

Oenanthe silaifolia, or narrow-leaved water-dropwort, flowering in species rich water meadows at Amberley Wild Brooks, West Sussex.

Water meadows plants today in Hampshire. Water avens and marsh valerian, with two whippets having fun.

Early purple orchids still going strong in Hampshire.

Green winged orchids growing on graves at a cemetery on the Isle of Wight.

Ivy broomrape already in flower in Dorset. Looking gorgeous!

Finally got to see Draba aizoides on the Gower this year, and it did not disappoint!

Bluebells and toothwort flowering in ancient woodland in Hampshire yesterday. 😃

Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage growing on a river bank in Hampshire. A county rarity that’s persisting, thankfully.

For those of you who like colour forms of viola odorata, I’m thinking this is f. Lilacina; pale colour with lilac flushes, bearded inner petals and dark spur. What do you think? 🤔

Lamium hybridum ( cut leaved dead nettle) found in a pavement , Bishops Waltham, Hampshire. Never tire of seeing this plant.

Rue-leaved Saxifrage already in flower, in Lymington, Hampshire. ❤️

The glory of Early Star of Bethlehem, in flower this year.

I love this little fern. Rustyback growing on a flint stone wall near home. Not many sites for it in Hampshire and it has disappeared from some sites on the Isle of Wight.

Nottingham Catchfly silene nutans is enjoying a second flush of flowers on Hayling Island.

Spiked Speedwell Veronica spicata still flowering beautifully in the Avon Gorge.

A surprise find in the shape of Dittrichia viscosa Woody Fleabane on the central reservation of a dual carriageway outside Southampton. Made my day!

May not be much to look at, but this is the very rare Potamogeton nodosus Loddon Pondweed looking rather attractive in a river on the Hampshire Berkshire border.

Another one for Sorbus fans: the rare Sorbus domestica growing on coastal cliffs in a remote spot along the river Severn.

One of my favourite species of dock: Rumex maritimus, golden dock, looking particularly golden in a damp meadow in Cambridgeshire

For Sorbus fans: Sorbus herefordensis growing on the edge of woodland in Herefordshire ( of course). A very handsome tree!

Not your usual mugwort, this is Chinese mugwort, which flowers much later in the season and has different leaves to common mugwort.

End of summer colour: golden samphire still putting on a great display along the sea wall at Broadmarsh, Hampshire.

This little beauty is the hybrid between common and pale toadflax, Linaria x sepium. Growing with Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire

Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, flowering happily on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire

I found this persicaria capitata legging it down a drainpipe in Falmouth town centre! Made me smile 😃

Carline thistle looking particularly golden in the evening sun in Sharp Tor point, Devon

A trip to Dartmoor is not complete without seeing this gem, ivy leaved bellflower. Love seeing this!

Crataegus persimilis broad-leaved cockspur thorn growing well away from any garden, at the foot of a disused railway embankment in a remote part of north Devon

Pale toadflax ( Linaria repens) flowering happily on the shingle at Browndown, Hampshire

The white firm of Dorset Heath ( Erica cilliaris) on a Cornish heath. Magic!

Sea daffodils flowering in Cornwall today. Good for the soul.

Crinum x powellii ( white flowered form) well established on cliffs at Housel Bay, Lizard, Cornwall

I never tire of seeing jewelweed or orange balsam by the river Meon in Hampshire. Good for the soul.

Summer’s here: the wonderful clematis flammula or virgin’s bower, flowering sweetly at Ventnor, Isle of Wight ❤️

The delightfully quirky Tall Thrift Armeria maritima spp elongata at its type locality at Ancaster, Lincolnshire.

Found a new site for Violet Helleborine Epipactis purpurata in south Hampshire 👍.

A rather special helleborines: Epipactis sancta on Holy Island, doing well this year!

A blizzard of sneezewort today in a Hampshire hay meadow

Round-headed rampion in pristine condition on chalk grassland, Hampshire. ♥️

Here’s one for the sedge lovers. Finally tracked down True Fox Sedge, Carex vulpina, with its flabby ligule, near Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire.

Greater Dodder, seen at Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire.

American Cranberry , Vaccinium macrocarpon, flowering beautifully on a damp heath in Dorset. Not a British native but an interesting alien that is doing well at Ashley Heath.

A lovely assemblage of arable plants in a corner of a field: round leaved fluellen; dwarf spurge; small toadflax. In south Hampshire.

Quite unassuming but no less special for being so: Hampshire Purslane in the New Forest.

A great weekend leading a botanical meeting for a small group of members of the wild flower society in the New Forest. One of our highlights was coral necklace, found growing abundantly along a sandy track.