A final #NewYearPlantHunt on my birthday round suburban streets of Longthorpe in Peterborough - a much lower total than on previous hunts, with just 37 species but some new including Wild Radish, Oat and the first few flowers of Cut-leaved Dead-nettle. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A very Happy Birthday to the fabulous @sarahlambert7.bsky.social! She is one of our amazing #BSBICountyRecorders and does a huge amount for botany and botanists in Northants. and more widely. Huge thanks to Sarah for spending her birthday taking part in #NewYearPlantHunt and #WildFlowerHour!

A short thread for #WildflowerHour showing off #TheWinter10 achieved while doing the #NewYearPlantHunt on Friday in Dawlish. These two are the two common Bellflower species, Trailing Bellflower and Adria Bellflower (I've heard other names for the latter, not sure which is official)/

Day 11, #12DaysWild. Cow parsley in flower for a #NewYearPlantHunt back in Ely. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

My husband always buys me beautiful secondhand reference books for Christmas, but he forgot to give me this one, till today. I love it! Not least because of the story of how it came about… Perfect timing for the last day of @bsbibotany.bsky.social ‘s #NewYearPlantHunt #wildflowers

Winter walk this pm at Selm Muir Wood, W Lothian, looking for #HairIce. Mission accomplished! @edinburghnats.bsky.social. Only one flowering plant for #NewYearPlantHunt @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social

A #WinterTen for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social thanks to my #BlackfordBotanyBuddy & #NewYearPlantHunt @bsbibotany.bsky.social V cold but great plant hunting 🥶🌱🌸💚 Scratching my head re Field Madder tho - flower parts or leaves ? #WildFlowerHour All #BlackfordHill or #Bawsinch @scotwildlife.bsky.social

It’s a good job I did @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt yesterday as this morning everything was covered in snow! Only 13 species seen in bloom but enough for #thewinter10! A single Cherry Plum flower looking lovely for #wildflowerhour & new to me, Hawthorn flowering alongside its berries! 😮

Lovely to chat just now to Nick Eardley on BBC Radio 5 Live about #NewYearPlantHunt on back of our work with @metoffice.gov.uk Plants are blooming out of synch with the wildlife that depend on them: how worried should we be? Catch our chat again here, starts at 17.40: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The last #wildflowerhour of 2025 & wasn’t it a lovely one! Lots in flower but will they still be in bloom for the #NewYearPlantHunt which begins on 1st January, let’s meet again next Sunday to find out! Head over to @bsbibotany.bsky.social to find out how to take part!

Great trip #LochArkaig -just annouced as a #Nature30 protected area by @naturescot.bsky.social Well done to #ArkaigForest & @WTscotsocial.bsky.social Broad-leaved Willowherb, Primrose (not sure if it’s the last or first though !😱), Bramble, Wild strawberry and Knapweed @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.

Illegal hunting for traditional medicine ingredients and rising demand for wild meat are fuelling the illegal wildlife trade, which poses a major threat to the survival of rhinos. — @‌ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏

So lovely!

Centaury flowers #GentianFamily #WildflowerHour

Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them

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

Wow!!! What a tonic to see all those beautiful wildflowers & gorgeous gentians!!! Huge thanks to all who shared their lovely pics! I wonder what the next week will bring? Let’s meet again next Sunday to find out. Happy flower hunting!

Common Calamint, Clinopodium ascendens, at Folkestone Warren for #WildflowerHour.

A beautiful collection around #BlackfordPond in South Edinburgh, Water mint, Rapeseed, Purple Loostrife, Rosebay willowherb, Michaelmas daisy, Water forget me not and an unusual find for me, Enchanter’s nightshade ! #wildflowerhour #ID ?

Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour

Arran wildflowers, Sea campion, Honeysuckle, Sea rocket, Common knapweed, Sheep’s-bit and Enchanter’s nightshade. #WildflowerHour

It was the perfect day to visit Nob End SSSI (it really is called that 😆😂) to see how the Autumn Gentians were getting on. I had such a happy time admiring them, they were looking absolutely stunning in the glorious sunshine!💜 #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend

The very bluest of the blue - a dazzling male Adonis Blue at Folkestone Warren. 💙

Help @rspbscience.bsky.social study bird disease (trichomonosis) outbreaks If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org @bto-gbw.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social 📷 Ben Andrew

Not strictly botanical, but I think these are oak artichoke galls, caused by the little wasp Andricus foecundatrix? on Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. I've never seen them before but found them several times here in #CoSligo this summer. #PlantGalls @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social

Bit late for #WildflowerHour but I know you will love this Haresfoot Clover, Chicory and Agrimony found in the field margins near #GosfordHouse East Lothian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #EastLothian

Mexican Fleabane, Erigeron karvinskianus, abundant on the embankments of the River Lee in Cork. #Wildflowerhour plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Delighted to find a few Seapinks still holding on - about to be further battered by the winds on the East Lothian coast at Longniddry - Armeria maritima #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A majestic female Marsh Harrier at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen last weekend.

We went to the Norfolk Broads last weekend for to see the Swallowtail butterflies. But we were also heartened by the apparent abundance of other species, many of whom were particularly enjoying the Hemp Agrimony. Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle) Comma Peacock Red Admiral

Weld, Reseda luteola, beside the tram tracks in Croydon. Also known as Dyer's Rocket, as it can be used to produce a yellow dye. #WildflowerHour

Beautiful scenes of Harebell in acid grassland, Leicestershire. #HarebellChallenge #wildflowerhour

Keen to know which other (once common) plants were listed as Near Threatened, like Harebell. on the England Red List? Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...

Ultra-blue-violet #HarebellChallenge in a wildflower tapestry along the banks of the Strontian River, Ariundle NNR for #wildflowerhour @asrainforest.bsky.social @BSBIScotland.bsky.social @PlantlifeScot.bsky.social

A wet weather day at Castle Tioram - had to get my son to take the photo ! Wood Sage and Goldenrod #Ardamurchan #Moidart #wildflowerhour

Thank you #wildflowerhour for making me take a closer look at plants with your varied challenges. This one was Gorse

The rather stunning Great Willowherb, at its best just now, with a wonderful mix of spreading glandular and non-glandular hairs hairs on stems and fruits. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Nettle-leaved Bellflower - a plant with hairs everywhere! Longish white hairs on petals and sepals, often wavy, with short, dense hairs on the leaves... #hairyplants #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hedge woundwort 🌱📷 #WildflowerHour #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling

It’s been so hot this week that I’ve been keeping in the shade. I’ve had good company though, lots of gorgeous Broad-leaved Helleborines!!! Thankfully they haven’t been chomped by deer this year! #WildflowerHour

Borage (Borago officinalis) flowering on a rubbish tip, but very far from rubbish #wildflowerhour #HairyPlants

Much excited squealing and exclaiming when I spotted this Marsh Pea, Lathyrus palustris, today at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. A plant I have been longing to find. #WildflowerHour

I know Birdfair has its critics, and I get that. But, to meet up with such brilliant, inspirational, lovely people, around a shared love of birds once a year, tops me up.

Round-leaved Sundew, Co. Donegal. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

Stonecrop and Vetch at Portuairk #Ardnamurchan #wildflowerID @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Fox and Cubs flowering in East Renfrewshire today, one of my favourites and such a beautiful colour. #wildflowerhour #botany

I've only ever seen Wild Onion, Allium vineale, with both bulbils and flowers once before, so it was nice to see a little colony of it at the Bidder's Pond subsite of Mitcham Common. #WildflowerHour