Still some Ragged Robin in flower at Strumpshaw Fen. Likewise a Cuckoo calling. It’s a different time zone! #wildflowerhour

An albino version of Dark Mullein. A Mullein Moth is a pollinator in the making but isn't doing a great deal for the reproductive capacity of this plant at the moment. #wildflowerhour

An exciting new plant for me this week: Hairy Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus subbiflorus)- no hairy birds involved🐦 In Ireland, just in the far south, on dry, sandy soil. Its flowers are small, orangey-yellow, usually in pairs (sub-bi-florus). And its sooo furry! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour Three for the price of one!

Stork’s-Bill such a cheerful little plant. Car park at Minsmere. #wildflowerhour

Marmalade hover flies #Wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

Didn’t catch a pollinator but some Marsh Woundwort today is a new find @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour 🌸🌱🌿

Is it about the butterfly or is it about the selfheal? #WildflowerHour

#wildflowerhour Well, this one was damned elusive!

For #wildflowerhour and #PollinatorPals I'm still in awe at the number of creatures weaving over and through the Dandelion seed heads back in May. Managed to capture these two Shield bugs at the time but Butterflies, Bumblebee and Ladybirds all visited ❤️ www.ebay.co.uk/usr/pixiehats

Insects on flowers in the Norfolk Brecks this week Ectophasia crassipennis- a tachinid fly Cryptocephalus aureolus- a chrysomelid beetle #wildflowerhour

Another new neophyte from the quarry. Balkan Spurge. #wildflowerhour

Sheets of Bog Pimpernel in flower in Lye Valley #fen ..And can you spot also the leaves of Marsh Lousewort and some of Grass of Parnassus popping up through the pimpernel? @friendlyevalley.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Flowers at Crags for #wildflowerHour

#Solstice Sunday suns, golden buttons, glowing in the heat. These tansy wildflowers are bringing a lot of wildlife into a midsummer meadow. No pollinators visible in this shot, but they’re right there hiding inbetween the flowers. Honest. #WildflowerHour

A cracking sunny solstice for #wildflowerhour ☀️☀️☀️ Been snuffling around various Cornish heaths and moors this weekend looking at birds and plants.

Sorry I always realise I’ve missed #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social about two hours too late! Some @yorkswildlife.bsky.social wonders today

Albino Common Centaury in Oxfordshire. #wildflowerhour

A gang of Marmalade Hoverflies enjoying Field Rose in a Northamptonshire hedgerow. #pollinatorpals #wildflowerhour

White Helleborine (from May) and Bee Orchid: two UK orchids which can be pollinated in the usual way, but which have evolved to routinely self-pollinate. So most flowers set seed (as the Bee Orchids are doing here) and they're their own #PollinatorPals. #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A pair of Paracorymbia livida getting pollinator pally on an Oxeye Daisy. #pollinatorpals #wildflowerhour

Marsh Helleborines looking stunning locally this week. Most of the population barely up but this one patch was all huge plants 😍 #wildflowerhour

The various colours of Scarlet Pimpernel around the farm and in my garden. #wildflowerhour

Thistle blossoms are absolutely stunning #wildflowerhour #wildflower #thistle #naturephotography

Bit late for #wildflowerhour but I thought I'd share my encounter with #pollinatorpals visiting this determined foxglove anyway... @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Sand Leek, Allium scorodoprasum. On the roadside near Meathop Moss, Cumbria, last week. First saw them here nine years ago with @vannabartlett.bsky.social and @ians4ad.bsky.social. Good to see they're still there. wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/L/Le... #WildFlowerHour

Scarlet Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis. I lifted the last garlic today at the #allotment, so it now has a bed of its own. #WildFlowerHour

A very fine Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, on the cliffs at Humphrey Head, Cumbria, last week. #WildFlowerHour

#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Soldiers on an umbell. Bumble on a teasel. Red-tailed bumble on a…knapweed? #InsectWeek #30DaysWild

21/6/26 #Highland - It was great to meet up with a good friend of mine and visit some of the fine sites South of Inverness, where some very fine plants grow - such as Moneses uniflora, Single-Flowered Wintergreen #wildflowerhour

Time to track down your triffids this week for the @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge... Are you bothered with Himalayan Balsam, brows knotted by Japanese Knotweed, worried by Water Hyacinth? If you find a non-native flowering species, please share it during #WildflowerHour on Sunday evening.

Today is the start of #INNSweek. Find out how you can help by learning about & recording invasive non-native plant species: bsbi.org/blog/2026/06... Check out the GB Non-native Species Secretariat website for webinars, resources & more ways to get involved: www.nonnativespecies.org/what-can-i-d...

It’s #InvasiveSpeciesWeek & for the #WildflowerHour challenge we are focusing on those non-native naturalised plants that are proving problematic! Find one in bloom & share you pics this Sunday using the hashtag #InvasivePlants. Read more here bsbi.org/blog/2026/06/i…

Such a wonderful #wildflowerhour tonight! It’s been fascinating to see your amazing #PollinatorPals finds! Huge thanks to you all, there wouldn’t be a #wildflowerhour without you & all your efforts! Keep a lookout for the next challenge & happy flower hunting! ☺️

White Bryony Bryonia dioica and its lovely little associate the Bryony Mining-bee Andrena florea. Hayling Island, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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

Our Marsh Helleborines are just coming into flower. 😍 Vulnerable on the #EnglandRedList, it's Scarce in Oxon, and Rare in vc23. Thanks to our continued #FenRestoration work, this is now probably the best place to see them in Oxfordshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #WildflowerHour

Viper’s bugloss, West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Quaking Grass, Briza media, on the downs this evening #WildflowerHour

Some glorious Pyramidal Orchids for this week’s #WildflowerHour, at farmer Martin Green’s Down Farm, Cranborne Chase

Viper’s bugloss engulfed by (Yorkshire) fog. #wildflowerhour

Burnt orchid this week on the South Downs #wildflowerhour

Convolvulus arvensis (Field Bindweed) with a solitary bee on the car boot field in Lacock #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

#PollinatorPals foxglove landing pad shaped to let plump bees crawl inside. Once the bee enters, plant hairs act as footholds while pollen is deposited on the bee's back. A perfect example of co-evolution for #wildflowerhour

We shouldn't underestimate the value of Meadow buttercups for our #pollinatorfriends #wildflowerhour

Beetles on Bristly oxtongue, Cambridge. #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

Red valerian at Lakeside Country Park on Tuesday and water-crowfoot and red campion at Bempton Cliffs yesterday. #WildflowerHour

1. I have this labelled as Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) with Dascillus cervinus, Orchid Beetle. I'm unsure whether it has the necessary equipment to be a #pollinatorpal But cervinus is an interesting epithet. It means the colour of a stag, which is a pretty accurate description #WildFlowerHour

One large plant of Heath Groundsel, Senecio sylvaticus, growing on the burnt ground following the wildfire on Fylingdales Moor last year. @northyorkmoors.org.uk #WildflowerHour

Round headed rampion on the South Downs this week #wildflowerhour