Tansy and Chicory ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: Edith Hilder Rowland Hilder

‘The Inquisive Harvest Mouse’ (1949) Artist: PB Hickling

Nipplewort - Lapsana communis with a thick-legged flower beetle for #pollinatorpals #Wildflowerhour

“A branch of flowering lime hangs above the roof” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

‘Willow’ Ladybird book of Trees, 1963. Artist: SR Badmin

Bramble - Rubus fruticosus including a rather colourful variegated form, should be a good year for fruit 🤞 #Wildflowerhour

Meadow vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis growing in dense grass on heavy clay. #Wildflowerhour

“The wild briar rose and elder are the flowers which most distinctly speak of June and midsummer” (What to Look for in Summer, 1960) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe writer: EL Grant Watson

Corn Marigold, Corn Mint, Hemlock Water Dropwort, Feverfew British Wild Flowers, 1957 Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

Other work of the Ladybird artists. 'On the Cliff' Shell Guide to Wildlife Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

‘Swallows’ (1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Birds and how they Live, 1966)

Marsh cinquefoil - a new one for me at the Stiperstones #Wildflowerhour

Garlic Mustard (2 of 3): playing host to an Orange-tip butterfly larva. Photos show a fourth instar larva with recently sloughed skin. Other larval food plants include Cuckooflower, Hedge Mustard, Winter-cress and Charlock.

The Common Blue, Small Copper, Large Skipper ‘Butterflies and Moths’ (1965) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

Corncockle - Agrostemma githago never noticed just how hairy the flower buds are before. #Wildflowerhour

Oxeye daisies - Leucanthemum vulgare and the Thick legged flower beetles - Oedemera nobilis looking happy in the afternoon sunshine before the rain arrives tomorrow. #wildflowerhour

‘Birds and their nests’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe From: ‘Nature through the Seasons’ Odhams

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Ringed Plover’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Oxeye daisies - Leucanthemum vulgare for #WildFlowerShow looking spectacular en masse. #Wildflowerhour

“When twilight turns to darkness, the swifts rise higher and higher into the night air and there they sleep on the wing. In the very early dawn, as light creeps into the sky, they dive down again” Writer: EL Grant Warson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe ‘What to Look for in Spring’ 1961

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Wren’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Wild service - Sorbus torminalis being enjoyed by a Red Admiral butterfly, growing in a hedgerow on an old estate. #Wildflowerhour

Goat's-beard - Tragopogon pratensis and Ragged-Robin - Silene flos-cuculi flowering on a grassy, heavy clay bank. #Wildflowerhour

Bird's-foot - Ornithopus perpusillus and I think lesser trefoil- Trifolium dubium for #Tinyplants growing in shallow, acidic, stony soil #Wildflowerhour

“In the shallow water at the edge of the lake, a coot sits on her nest, which she and her mate have made with pieces of reed stems” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe. Writer: EL Grant Watson

Sweet cicely - Myrrhis odorata and Bush vetch - Vicia sepium for the #Carrotsandpeas challenge #Wildflowerhour.

My first Mountain Pansy (Viola lutea) of the year #Wildflowerhour

The cuckoo Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to look for in Spring, 1961)

Bluebell, Ground Ivy, Red Campion ‘Wild Flowers’(1957) Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder

‘Hawthorn’ Trees, 1963. Artist: SR Badmin May Day Bank Holiday Monday

Sweet vernal grass and pignut just starting to flower in the meadows here #Wildflowerhour

Bluebells and climbing corydalis growing on an area where the gorse was cut back last winter. #Wildflowerhour

Bulbous buttercup- Ranunculus bulbosus for the #ButtercupChallenge #Wildflowerhour

Common broom - Cytisus scoparius showing some variation in colouration #Wildflowerhour

‘Buttercup’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Plants and How they Grow, 1965)

Germander speedwell, Pignut, faded Oxlip and Bluebells at Bradfield Woods. #WildflowerHour @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

Fallen branch in woodland near a river that has become covered in moss from which wood sorrel + ferns are growing #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Bilberry and possibly a Bilberry bumblebee from the Stiperstones #Wildflowerhour

A hedgerow laid in January this year, rapidly shooting hawthorn and an understory of climbing corydalis, bluebells and greater Stitchwort #Wildflowerhour #Hedgerowchallenge

“The larch branch is expanding its young green leaves which look like small, green shaving brushes” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Early Purple Orchis, Cuckoo-Pint, Wood Sorrel Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder

Hawthorn - The first few flowers coming out on a hedge laid two years ago in Shropshire. #Wildflowerhour

Cowslips and dandelions caught by a frost last Monday morning. #Wildflowerhour

Bulbous buttercup - a double flowered form growing very close to the ground on very thin stoney soil. #Wildflowerhour

Cuckoo flower and Garlic mustard for the #CabbageFamily challenge, I’ve spotted the first few orange tip butterflies drifting around so hopefully they will be laying their eggs on either of these important larval food plants. #Wildflowerhour

Ashy mining bee - Andrena cineraria sunning itself on a hazel leaf. #Bees

Bluebells and Greater Stitchwort seem to be dominating the young woodland here at the moment with a smattering of garlic mustard here and there. #Woodlandplants #Wildflowerhour

Goat willow - Salix caprea a wind sculpted specimen growing on common land locally, and the male flowers with pollen glowing in the afternoon sun. #Wildflowerhour

What to Look for in Spring, 1961 Grey wagtails Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

"Life in the Meadow" Shell Guide to Wildlife (1959) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton