Gearing up for the #bigbutterflycount starting soon. Hope they'll be easier to spot than this tatty Meadow Brown doing a good impression of a dead leaf. It was very much alive and definitely not a leaf 😆🦋

The figs in #Bermondsey are huge this year. This one escaped the woodpigeons and squirrels! Pound coin shown for size comparison.

Urban #Trees: An underused tool for keeing people cool 🌳❤️ www.wri.org/insights/urb...

It's been a while since we posted for #thicktrunktuesday, but we loved these old willows in Stromovka Park in Prague.

At last.... it's actually going to happen! Roll on 2028. #NaturalHistoryGCSE www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Okay folks it’s hot out there so we need to talk about #bees and #water. Please #repost / #share. Thank you for caring. BEES NEED WATER! BEES GET STUCK IN AND DIE IN WATER! Here’s what you need to know! Given that they can collect water, their nectar based diet and their ability to generate… 1/11

Perfect camouflage! Do you see it? #spiders

The brilliant @urbantreefest.bsky.social is back! Check out this year's fantastic programme.

Our native species urban hedgerow planted 2021 - 23 is thriving #BermondseySpaGardens. Here are Hawthorn flowers for #wildflowerhour @lb-southwark.bsky.social

Wisteria tree 😉 #Bermondsey

21 April is Parilia, the Roman festival honouring Pales, a pastoral deity. It’s said on this day two fishermen refused to observe her rites. In anger she turned them into an alder and a willow. They still haunt the riverbank, the willow trailing branches like lines cast for fish.

Discreet but charming Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina - flowering for #wildflowerhour

“Seven sorts of tree buds” Treasure magazine, 1965

"Regard the moon...." T.S. Eliot, "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" Clocks go forward tonight and British Summertime starts.

Can confirm this and it makes an even more delicious pesto if combined with wild garlic. Add grated hard cheese from back of fridge, any roasted and ground nuts, Maldon salt and black pepper and olive oil of course! What's more, its flowers are incredible magnets for #pollinators 🐝🦟🐞

Chuffed to see Wild Pavements reviewed in Chris Schuler's lovely substack newsletter. #urbannature #naturewriting #1stBookDiary cjschuler.substack.com/p/wild-about...

A perfectly round hole in this veteran oak for #thicktrunktuesday Both Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers loudly proclaiming their presence in the vicinity hint at who made it!

Perennial problem in #Bermondsey: the remains of bombed out streets lie just inches below the soil level. This "Iranian" medlar will be the last fruit tree we plant in the Rouel Rd Est Community Orchard, as we've run out of diggable space and don't want trees to shade each other out as they mature.

Pedunculate oak @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social for #thicktrunktuesday

I've taken action for our wild places! The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature. action.rspb.org.uk/page/187254/...

Female hairy-footed flower bees emerging to gather pollen to fill their nesting holes in old lime-mortar brickwork. Just look at that face 😍 #pollinators #springtime

Ah! The almond blossom! One of the first trees to flower. This one is by the Thames in Rotherhithe at Surrey Docks Farm. Please support this special place to stay open. They need our help now: Surrey Docks Farm - Online Social Fundraising Donation Platform | Givey share.google/mJRInQlLulkx...

What a difference a tree makes! Gorgeous blossom buds emerging on Prunus cerasifera "nigra" on the corner of Macks Rd and Southwark Park Rd #bermondseytrees

Come and join us for the 4th Bermondsey Wassail TODAY, Saturday 28th February! Music, singing and lantern and crownmaking from 3pm on the Blue Marketplace SE16 3UQ followed by lantern-lit procession to the Rouel Est Community Orchard to wake the apple and pear trees 🍎🍐🎶🌳 Mulled cider will be served!

Phoenix hornbeam like a huge reclining figure flexing its muscles on the woodland floor #thicktrunktuesday

Waxing crescent moon. The view from here ....

A few sloes still holding on, even as cherry-plum is bursting into flower and 7-spot ladybirds are waking up in the Rouel Rd Estate Community Orchard, #Bermondsey

Wonderful to have some blue skies today to set off this fragrant mimosa spilling over the fence into Pete's orchard, North Walworth.

#ThickTrunkTuesday featuring #moss #mossybark

#MushroomMonday ID suggestions welcome.

Exotic London! Five bright green ring-necked parakeets in a fig tree in # Bermondsey, Central London. Occasional visitors before, but the flock grows daily. Who else has noticed they are on the increase here? Very loud, very greedy and totally fearless!

Fox watching the rush hour chaos on Grange Road in #Bermondsey #FoxOfTheDay @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Tower Bridge at night in the rain. Looking gorgeous tonight.

You can never get tired of the view over the river from the Thames Path at King's Stairs Gardens.

When windy place an ear to the bark of a tree, & with a hand stop all noise entering the other ear You can now concentrate on listening THROUGH the tree to the low rumble of the trunk & branches working with the wind You can also feel the movement of the branches as they react

Good morning Blackbirds! Tuning up for the #BigGardenBirdwatch in #Bermondsey starting 23/01/2026. Volume up!

Register now for the Big Garden Birdwatch 23-26 January to take part in the world's largest garden wildlife survey Who will be this year's garden faithfuls and traitors? One hour to sit, chill & watch the birds, recording the highest number of each species seen at any one time Link in the comments

Finding colour on the greyest of January days.

Thank you for the support! 🙏 We hope our case shines a light on a bigger problem nationwide in subsidence claims by insurers, and helps to draw the line for what communities expect from corporations like Aviva and from local authorities; a fair process with decisions founded on quality evidence

Please help our friends in Wivenhoe save their beautiful "Old King George" oak. This isn't just a local issue, but happening everywhere.

The setting moon. Good morning everyone!

We discovered microbes in bark ‘eat’ climate gases. This will change the way we think about trees theconversation.com/we-discovere...

Plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, bumblebees, blue tits, small mammals, insects, robins, frogs, fieldfares, bats, toads, butterflies, moths, blackbirds, solitary bees, wrens, hoverflies...

Pictures that explain things. Trees in Winter (back endpapers) Artist: SR Badmin, 1963

Some trees from #Bermondsey in this beautiful, crisp, winter light ...London plane and Black poplar pollards and crabapple and Spaeth's alder @lb-southwark.bsky.social @thestreettree.bsky.social

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost, 1922. #trees #nature #Dorset #sunset

Happy New Year Everyone! 🌳🌲🌳

Old lichen-covered blackthorn. It has been an amazing year for sloes. #hedgerows #hedges #wildfruit

“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)