About time for a mainstream party leader to call this out.

I’m trying to educate the ecologically illiterate users on this app with this ‘nature facts for nature haters’ series. This episode tackles those that think they can live without nature and fly off to a new planet after this one dies. Hopefully this will save you time responding

There's still plenty out there in November. Fresh Dense-flowered Fumitory Fumaria densiflora in a game cover crop at South Wonston, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

And these people speak of wasting public money... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fantastic presentation on some hardcore survey work in the Scottish uplands here. Great to hear from Gus Routledge, who is unfortunately not on Bluesky ☹️, but evidently still doing inspirational field botany alongside @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social youtu.be/RZFv8lSfmj8?...

Developing saltmarsh around pools at Dunwich looking stunning

Always a bit special to see Limbarda crithmoides Golden Samphire in East Anglia - these between Dunwich and Walberswick.

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!

Well done all involved in years of data gathering, analysis, coordination & funding for this new GB red list. Dedicated work by top botanists. And thanks to the brilliant conservation orgs & land managers stemming the haemorrhaging of biodiversity too. Many declines but also some glimmers of hope

Jersey Cudweed 1st recorded on Jersey in 1689, now moving northwards: has increased 50fold since 2000. Why? several reasons, inc (probably) a warming climate. Find out more about Jersey Cudweed (inc images, trends & a distribution map) on its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Best time to join the growing ranks of #BSBImembers? In October to get 15 months of benefits for price of 12: that's when 100s of people inc @markavery.bsky.social & @alunsalt.bsky.social joined! 2nd best time? In November, to enjoy 14 months of benefits: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...

Wild Roses of Great Britain & Ireland (latest title in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plants) is due out this month! Final proofs now with authors Gareth & Roger. Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte... £16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.

Corn spurred looking pretty at Benacre

Not been to Covehithe for a while. Eroding cliff top has been colonised by Jersey cudweed

10:30-c.1500 3hrs of city botanising and “stopping the clock” for a few pubs on the route.

For #wildflowerhour it’s Common Chickweed, Stellaria media and a question from me. Does anyone know the purpose/function/advantage of having hairs on alternating sides of the stem? I’m intrigued 🤔Thanks

Sounds like a lovely send-off - and what an amazing gift! I love 'paper' books ... but you can take an e-book everywhere you go and it saves a lot of luggage-weight 😀

This week’s botany surprise was a self set Olive Olea europaea on a Norfolk verge. Presumably from seed of a cultivated tree from a nearby garden, lodged in a stump by a small mammal. C. 10 years old. Seems to be the first wild record @bsbibotany.bsky.social ? #wildflowerhour #NorfolkFloraGroup

Christmas bargain £13.59 (with free p&p) for 'Broadland. Shaping Marsh and Fen' by Tom Williamson & Alison Yardy (with ecology @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social and geology @timholtwilson.bsky.social). 400 pages of landscape history. Go www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book... @broadsnationalpark.bsky.social

@sarahspeedwell.bsky.social made some fantastic membrillo/quince cheese this year (I ate the entire box within a fortnight)- anyone want to deal with the c300 medlars currently weighing down the tree in my herb patch? Medlar jelly goes well with pheasant/turkey etc & so a great Christmas present...

a thread of halloween treats over the years! first up: my favourite. red velvet cinnamon roll GUTS hehehe few years ago i brought them to practice for snack but forgot utensils or plates so there were just 20 choir nerds between the ages of 18-60 rippin into em with their hands on a church floor

I think we did these... two years ago? I still have... so much sugar "glass" in my freezer lmao we made way too much and i have no use for it but i didn't wanna toss it.

Look amazing. I have to try making these for #NorfolkFloraGroup botanists ... but you're setting the bar way too high, here 😲 Are you able to share trade secrets? Think body may be a date? Are legs chocolate? What do you make the blood out of? (and is it suitable for vegetarians??)

Britain has saved £147.5bn due to wind power since 2010 – EnvironmentJournal environmentjournal.online/energy/briti...

Halloween aside, I don’t long too much for spooky encounters but finding a Ghost #Orchid here in the UK was one I craved for over three decades

A suitably seasonal Samhain encounter with this stunning Noble False Widow, lurking near our compost bins. Spiders and their webs have been viewed as powerful symbols of fate, creativity, and the interconnectedness of life, death, and the spiritual world.

As it’s the season for ghostly apparitions here’s a few Epipogium spotted in France earlier this year.. oooooo 👻

My pumpkins bring all the childs to the yard.. 🎶🎶🎃🎃

1st world problem? ... when your special lime drizzle cakes for the first #BSBIbotany #NorfolkFloraGroup winter meeting of 2025-26 are sadly compromised by a slightly over-risen profile so that the drizzle topping slides off. Edges will be very tasty, at any rate....

Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help? Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife

The National Trust seeks to restore part of a wetland to tackle climate change and save rare species in a nature reserve. The National Trust has submitted plans for the peatland restoration of Hurdle Hall, a part of Wicken Fen in Ely.... www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-n...

📢 ACTION NEEDED: The Govt's potentially disastrous Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords yesterday offers vital protection for nature – but it needs MP support to stay in. Tell your MP: please back Amendment 130 👇 https://wtru.st/PIB-last-chance

My very good friends at Felbeck Trust @felbecktrust.bsky.social have a fundraiser in November. They do wonderful work for nature with dedicated volunteers. It’s an honour to be their patron. If you’re in Norfolk please attend and support www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

Can anyone @bsbibotany.bsky.social recommend a Grid Reference app for android to at least 8 figures?

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Thank you Alex. It's been trial & error plus listen to as much expert advice as we can, as well as being flexible when weather conditions change. All we've done is documented on our website www.morstonpondswamp.org the Blog pages might be best, plus the Gallery to see the changes as we've gone along

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social @ormejks.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @northnorfolkliving.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk

Review and strengthen protections. Amend the Forestry Act 1967 to explicitly define and set a higher evidence bar for exempting any ancient tree felling from licences. Publish and maintain a list of heritage trees with protected status... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Two wetland Veronicas beccabunga and catenata together in a Norfolk pond this weekend. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#wildflowerID help requested for mystery rosette on vaguely calcareous rewilding site west of Bircham Newton VC28 yesterday (i.e. possibly sown). My feeling is Scabiosa columbaria; other suggestions include Verbena sp. and Inula conyza (we have not arrived at a consensus!). Anyone have any thoughts?

Grass Carp for sale at a local pond supplier. Doesn’t seem the best idea and I was surprised to learn it’s not illegal if GB bred. Just hugely irresponsible, especially down the road from important wetlands. Interesting to see them forming dense masses as they do in infested European waterbodies

Growing in a plant container at a New Forest pub, this looks like Hornungia alpina. Not one I've seen used as a bedding plant. Especially odd given it's growing with a variegated Ivy, so clearly not an alpine planter.

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys url: academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

Really looking forward to speaking at Kent Wildlife Conference tomorrow about - what else? - urban botany! Will be talking Lobelia, Senecio’s and giant invasive trees! #urbanplants #urbanbotany #pavementplants #concretejungle @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social

This might also explain the slow and steady decline of common insects. I am sure they cannot avoid these pesticides either and low levels could disrupt behaviour or reduce survival rates www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every autumn, millions of animals migrate south in search of warmer climes in which to overwinter. Sadly, some don’t survive the journey. Migration is a testing time for the young and inexperienced. This Morrisons trolley won’t reach its wintering grounds, nor return to breed next spring.

Growing at the base of a Bay tree in a pot outside a #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk restaurant I think this is Dryopteris cycadina, Black Wood #Fern. Not sure if it came with the tree or was planted separately. Native of north India, China, Taiwan and Japan. #FernFriday

Our lovely #BSBI #Solanaceae Referee is away - in the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? Sandy arable margin, coastal SE Suffolk. From a couple of metres away I'd assumed S nitidibaccatum, but leaves well-dissected, and not at all glandular-hairy and so wondering about S sarrachoides.

I HATE IT A pointless but utterly destructive decoration. Why do our human festivities have to result in fatalities in other biota? #hallowean