Late for #wildflowerhour sorry. Two snowdrops just emerging.

Two of the few flowers spotted on a walk in South Oxfordshire today. Field scabious (I think - as it had a long stem) and ivy leaved toadflax. Also (not pictured) we saw yarrow, white dead-nettle, shepherd’s purse, primrose, violet, daisy, and thyme leaved speedwell - not quite the winter 10.

Two of the few flowers spotted on a walk in South Oxfordshire today. Field scabious (I think - as it had a long stem) and ivy leaved toadflax. Also (not pictured) we saw yarrow, white dead-nettle, shepherd’s purse, primrose, violet, daisy, and thyme leaved speedwell - not quite the winter 10.

Bush vetch still in flower in the Chilterns yesterday #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour #thewinterten Surprised myself by managing to find ten slightly bedraggled plants in flower on a rainy walk around our village today. Dandelion, daisy, red valerian, red deadnettle, hazel, primrose, yarrow (red and white forms) petty spurge, and white deadnettle.

A strange, wintery-looking combination this week - meadowsweet coming into flower (seems late?) looking at first glance like frosty seedheads, set against a background of greenery and bright red berries (of white briony I think). By our local pond, in Oxfordshire. #wildflowerhour

Upright coral fungus at Harcourt arboretum today #fungifriday

#wildflowerhour #thewinterten All from South Oxfordshire earlier in the week.

Visted RSPB Arne in Dorset yesterday: the gorse was in flower in many parts of the heath, and I also saw some common heather, bell heather, and some hedge woundwort. #wildflowerhour

Listening to the sounds of Autumn in the Chilterns. (the fall . . . )

Sunny stroll in South Oxfordshire today. Names in ALT text. #wildflowerhour #thewinterten

#wildfungihour #wildflowerhour Some colourful specimens found during the last ten days in Oxfordshire. Beefsteak Polypore; Magpie Inkcap; Dyer’s Polypore; Lilac Fibrecap; Witch’s Hat; Chip Cherries (Identified using Seek app -hope names are accurate).

Hedge woundwort, field pansy, and red campion this week. #Wildflowerhour

Yew, hedge cranesbill, and greater knapweed, all caught my eye this week. #wildflowerhour

#Wildflowerhour Spotted a few of these unexpectedly this week, and I almost broke into song: “As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing buttercups and daisies …” (no strawberries anywhere to be seen though…)

#wildflowerhour A solitary windswept harebell on Selsley common, a rain drenched red campion still in flower by the Sapperton Canal. Also Field Scabious and Spindleberries - not open so the wonderful colour-clash of orange seeds against the pink of the fruit casing is yet to appear.

#favouriteplant #wildflowerhour Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.

#seedheads #Wildflowerhour Sorry, I am very late for wildflower hour. Angelica - but not sure which sort - in our local woodland. This one had a very dense seed head compared with its neighbours. And (k)napweed.

#wildflowerhour #fruits A tapestry of colourful fruit: walnut, hawthorn, blackberry, acorns, rosehips, and many, many sloes in south Oxfordshire this week.

Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week. #langdyke #swaddywell #wildflowerhour #gentianfamily

A pink form of yarrow, and a sunny patch of fleabane, both found in south Oxfordshire this week. #daisyfamily #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour #pollinatorpals Seven spot ladybird enjoying the sunshine today on some Rosebay Willowherb in the Chilterns.

Eyebright, Euphrasia (not sure which one) growing on a chalky Chiltern hillside. Tiny - it hides in the grass - and is one of my favourites. #wildflowerhour

Red bartsia, water mint, marjoram, and (I think?) black horehound? #wildflowerhour #deadnettlechallenge

In the pink? There seem to be many flowers in different pinkish shades at the moment. Some of them here … Rosebay willowherb, corn cockle, bramble, bindweed, yarrow. #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour Lady’s thumb and toadflax (with hidden bug)

Not a harebell but nettle leaved bellflower. One for the hairy plants challenge.

Happy to find harebells in the Cotswolds and Chilterns this week. #wildflowerhour #harebellchallenge

Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum The stems were backlit by the sun, showing the hairs clearly, at eye level. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

Viper’s bugloss competing in the hirsute challenge with a hungry hairy visitor #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

ID help please. At Bernwood Forest this week. I think it is common hedge nettle/purple betony. With small white spider. #wildflowerhour

Bernwood Meadows today - a colourful tapestry of flowers, dominated by knapweed, mostly purple, but with this odd white specimen. #wildflowerhour

Trying to photograph quaking grass in the wind was very tricky! Clockwise from top left: Hard rush, Clustered bellflower, Hedge bedstraw with wild Marjoram, Quaking grass. #wildflowerhour #grasschallenge

A smidge outside the official timescale sorry - bog asphodel and common cotton-grass on stunning Gabhla/Gola island, Ireland on 11 June. Corncrakes lurking nearby #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour #gabhla

Bush vetch and birdsfoot trefoil #peafamily Also milkwort on the dunes in Ards Forest, Donegal #wildflowerhour

Northern marsh orchid, common twayblade, and common spotted orchid, at Ards Forest, Donegal, and Butterfly orchid round the coast at Cnoc Fola. Not sure if greater or lesser? A week late for the orchid challenge. #wildflowerhour #wildorchids

Fragrant orchid, two not yet open pyramidal orchids, and common spotted orchid on Minchinhampton common this week. Also green winged orchid not pictured as looking worse for wear. #Wildflowerhour #wildorchids

Wild mignonette on a breezy Chiltern hillside yesterday. And close by, Greater Butterfly orchid. Sorry late for #Wildflowerhour

#pinkfamily #wildflowerhour

Thyme-leaved speedwell growing all over my unmown lawn (very hard to photograph). Didn’t know what it was until I looked closely for this challenge. Also some beautiful, deep blue germander speedwells around here at the moment. #wildflowerhour #speedwell

A blanket of wild garlic in a Cotswold beechwood today. #wildflowerhour

Yellow flag in our local pond. #wildflowerhour

Saw clouds of shepherd’s purse competing with the yellow stuff, all along a field margin. #cabbagefamily Then, although not in the brassica family, greater celandine does look a bit brassica-like. #wildflowerhour

Bluebells at Wytham Wood yesterday.

A tunnel of blackthorn blossom. #wildflowerhour #treeflowers

Cuckoo flower, snake’s head fritillary, cowslip - three with animals in their names, so bluebell is the odd one out. No wait … three of them have flowers that face downwards, so cuckoo flower is the odd one out in that case. #wildflowerhour

Snake’s head fritillaries on Iffley Meadows today. #wildflowerhour

A colourful sight at the Warsash Ferry across the river Hamble today - bright green Alexanders flowering against the bubblegum pink wall. Lucky I had my sunglasses!

Wild garlic starting to open in the Cotswolds this week. #wildflowerhour #woodlandplants

Something (or someone?) has nibbled the tip off this white dead-nettle, making it easier to see the soft hairs on the flowers below. I remember as a child taking off individual flowers, to suck on the nectar. According to Flora Britannica this makes me a ‘country child’. #wildflowerhour