A wonderful Imbolc #wildflowerhour, it’s lovely to see some tentative signs of spring appearing! Special thanks to all of you for sharing your gorgeous photos! Hope you all have a great week and see you all again next Sunday! ☺️

For #wildflowerhour #winterTen - Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose & a few others that didn’t make the collage! So pretty now it’s reached ‘snowdrop carpet season!’

A rare patch of sunshine from the past in week in Lincolnshire with some naturalised Double Snowdrops in it #WildflowerHour

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful winter ten Jill! 🌿👏🏻🌼

A nice Sun spurge. #WildflowerHour

For this week’s #WildflowerHour, a Sweet Violet in flower; Dogs’ Mercury which seems to send its shoots up with buds at the ready; the first rosettes of early bluebell leaves at the foot of a Hazel in the woods; and the tight buds of male Holly flowers. Buds as Imbolc reminders Spring is on its way!

Groundsel. #WildflowerHour

#wildflowerhour Alder catkins and - I think - the flowers?

Pretty Shepherd’s purse. #WildflowerHour

Gorse in the rain #WildflowerHour

Phone snap of Hazel catkins by the river in Leicester yesterday, after the football. If I could just persuade my phone to focus on the catkins not the building... #WildflowerHour

Some Snowdrop flowers, in the rain #WildflowerHour

Truck stopping Sowbread. Luckily this eye catching patch of magenta was on a quiet rural hamlet road junction enabling me to pull up and check it out. #WildflowerHour

Hazel and snowdrops in Nth #Donegal today for #wildflowerhour

Primrose in a wild part of Cherry Hinton churchyard #Cambridge 🍒🏘️ #WildflowerHour

Grey Willow. Lovely to see (and feel) spring beginning to stir. #WildflowerHour

Happy #Imbolc to those who celebrate! We've reached the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Here, a profusion of snowdrops and aconites at St Botolph's Churchyard in Swyncombe, in the #Chilterns, UK. #WildFlowerHour [archive 📷]

Spurge Laurel, Daphne laureola, growing out of a grave in Cherry Hinton churchyard #Cambridge. Very chalky soil and obviously disturbance! 🍒🏘️ #WildflowerHour

Thank you for sharing your lovely winter ten Lyn! 👏🏻🌿🌼

Primula vulgaris my first Primrose of the year, spring is on the way! #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A wonderful winter ten Stevie! 👏🏻🌿🌼

More sweet violets appearing. #WildflowerHour

For this weeks #WildflowerHour Snowdrops, dead nettles, gorse, and daisies

So beautiful!!!!! 😍

Good grief, that is unexpected! #WildFlowerHour

Rathlin & Ballycastle today. More signs of life despite Storm Chandra: Red Valerian, Little Mouse-Ear Chickweed, Sea Campion, Groundsel fruiting, 3 Corner Leek, Daisy #WildFlowerHour #TheWinter10 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Only gorse flowering along the river at Corbridge today but lots of young wildflower plants thriving next to the pavement along the road. Looks like it will be a colourful summer #WildflowerHour

Not much for #WildflowerHour this week. Here's a Red Deadnettle growing beside a footpath in Swindon on Thursday.

Dog violet appearing in soggy leaf litter-a very rainy week #wildflowerhour

A lovely winter ten Daniel, thank you for sharing! 👏🏻🌿🌼

Rathlin & Ballycastle today. More signs of life despite Storm Chandra: Red Valerian, Little Mouse-Ear Chickweed, Sea Campion, Groundsel fruiting, 3 Corner Leek, Daisy #WildFlowerHour #TheWinter10 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Daisy portrait. #WildflowerHour

Crocus flowers protruding through the water of a flooded lawn. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Hazel catkins (sometimes called lamb's tails) on this, the first day of spring. These male flowers thrive on the damp, wooded banks of Stagshaw burn in west Northumberland #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Splendid display on the Snow Drop Bank from Our Lady of February. Shinning hope for spring . #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

There's usually Shepherd's Purse around in Swindon, most of the year. But most weeks I fail to get my camera to accept that the inconspicuous flowers are what I want it to focus on. #WildflowerHour

The usual stuff for this week's #Thewinter10: tough little troopers that couldn’t care less about frost and snow — and yes, even some uplifting signs that spring is on its way. #WildflowerHour

#Wildflowerhour Snowdrops appearing near Lancaster now.

Thank you for sharing your lovely winter ten Kate! 👏🏻🌿🌼

Early Crocus (Crocus tommasinianus) coming out in its regular spot in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park. Nowadays the commonest naturalised crocus. More elongated flower tube than the older-established Spring Crocus (Crocus vernus) #wildflowerhour

I'm still not finding many flowering plants, far fewer than ten each week, although some Lesser Celandine are flowering #WildflowerHour

Not been seeing much in flower again this week, but was pleased to find some more Common Whitlowgrass, Erophila verna, at RSPB #Hodbarrow #wildflowerhour @rspbengland.bsky.social

Rathlin & Ballycastle today. More signs of life despite Storm Chandra: Red Valerian, Little Mouse-Ear Chickweed, Sea Campion, Groundsel fruiting, 3 Corner Leek, Daisy #WildFlowerHour #TheWinter10 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Some early signs of Spring in a local woodland; Hazel buds, Hawthorn buds, Dog's Mercury, Bluebell shoots, Lords and Ladies, and a sizeable colony of Early Purple orchid rosettes. #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

An absolute stunner! Thank you for sharing! 💛

For #wildflowerhour this week it’s Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna. Local names include smallwort, brighteye, pilewort, cheesecups and cream and butter-

Only real bit of colour was the Gorse (again!) though matched by this Witches' Butter/Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) parasitising crust fungus and sometimes grows on decaying Gorse wood, as here, especially in wet winter weather, as now! #WildflowerHour

Sweet Alyssum from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

A wonderful winter ten Fran! 👏🏻🌿🌸

The emergence of the Snowdrops in Clayton Meadow, Dorset. #wildflowerhour #wildflowers #meadows #snowdrops