Very early for #WildflowerHour but stuck on the train and will be busy once home. First half of my #theWinter10 from (mostly) Wiltshire this week: Molewort, Musk Mallow, Pale Galingale, Snapdragon, Sun Spurge. 2nd half: Rape, Red Deadnettle, Broom (look closely!), Scentless Mayweed & Sweet Violet

Paul’s tips for promoting botanical education: 1 Make it enjoyable 2 Make it intellectually stimulating 3 Field work 4 Communicate widely.

Congratulations to Alys Fowler for her wonderful book ‘Peatlands,’ winner of @bsbibotany.bsky.social and The Wildflower Society Presidents’ Award presented today at #BIBConf25

Pete Stroh @bsbibotany.bsky.social on the newly published GB Red List for vascular plants at #BIBconf25 a standardised assessment of conservation status. Fascinating hearing about the challenges of using the IUCN criteria developed on mammals for plants. bsbi.org/learn/public...

Superb garden of hosts near Ormskirk prior to #BIBConf25 tomorrow.

Hart’s Tongue and Wall Rue at Bradford-on-Avon station #FernFriday

And the fruits! Rosehip, Spindle, Privet, Hawthorn and Bittersweet #NotTheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

And still they come! Common Fumitory, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Yarrow, Grey Field-Speedwell and Water Bent for #theWinter10 extras #WildFlowerHour

Second tranche for #theWinter10 - Stinking Hellebore, Bush Vetchling, Nipplewort with a frosty background, Adria Bellflower and Red Valerian #WildflowerHour

Good grief! Look at the time! 5 of my #theWinter10 - Hogweed, a not very enthusiastic Red Deadnettle, Smooth Sowthistle, Winter Heliotrope and Bristly Oxtongue #WildflowerHour

And a bonus 3 for #WildflowerHour: lovely Shaggy Soldier, my first Winter Heliotrope of the season and one of many White Deadnettles undaunted by weather. All in Bradford-on-Avon.

Second half of #theWinter10, all from Waterford: Cornsalad, Creeping Thistle, Rape (I think), Red Clover and Black Medick.

The first half of #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour Ivy-leaved Toadflax and Annual Meadow Grass above Waterford’s John’s River, Forgetmenot and Annual Mercury in the backstreets and a Mayweed above the River Suir.

So busy with travelling v weather that I missed #FridayFerns - here are some from the walls of Waterford: Rustyback, Wall Rue, Maidenhair Spleenwort (with fab Navelwort) and Polypody.

In a park in Waterford, fabulous orange offerings for #MushroomMonday

#theWinter10 are all yellow this week with Groundsel, Smooth Sowthistle, Dandelion, Bristly Oxtongue and Common Ragwort, then Yellow Corydalis, Hedge Mustard, Hoary Mustard, Nipplewort and Hawkweed Oxtongue. All from Wiltshire for #WildflowerHour

This Blue Fleabane Erigeron acris doesn’t fit my self-imposed colour scheme (🙄) for Sunday’s #WildflowerHour but as it’s one of my favourite plants and it was much bigger than I usually see - and a bigger population - here it is for #FleabaneFriday 😄

The second half of #theWinter10 mostly from Bradford-on-Avon for #WildflowerHour Trailing Bellflower, Dwarf Mallow, Chalk Knapweed, Michaelmas Daisy and Purple Toadflax

First half of #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour - Bramble, Herb Robert, Himalayan Balsam, Meadow Cranesbill and Red Campion. All from Bradford-on-Avon this week.

Possibly not in the spirit of #ThickTrunkTuesday but these are the only trees I’ve photographed this week! Beside the river in the country park at Bradford-on-Avon.

Star of the arable Upavon site was Night-flowering Catchfly - masses of it 😍 #WildflowerHour

Small Toadflax, Viper’s Bugloss, Wild Mignonette, Saw-wort and Common Toadflax from sites near Upavon for #WildflowerHour

Between buses in Trowbridge I found some nice #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour Hemp Agrimony, Common Mallow, Thornapple (a lot of it about this year), Michaelmas Daisy and a Snapdragon.

Wall Brown hoping for sun this afternoon near Upavon #WildWebsWednesday

Almost forgot #ThickTrunkTuesday - some Crack Willow doing what it says. Littleton Panell, Wiltshire

Spindle, Oxford Ragwort, Wild Strawberry, Red Campion and Tall Melilot from a variety of habitats for #WildflowerHour

From the perimeter track on Salisbury Plain here are Common Mouse-ear, Hogweed, Yarrow, Scabious and Wild Carrot for #WildflowerHour

From a surprise organic arable edge on Greensand - two versions of Green Nightshade, Corn Spurrey with Bugloss, and Small Nettle for #WildflowerHour

From a stroll to the supermarket - Sweet Alyssum, Henbit, Common Storksbill, Hedgerow Cranesbill and White Dead-nettle for #WildflowerHour

A few from Savernake for #FungiFriday - there was so much of the Coral Fungus (top right)! Maybe Charcoal Burner below that.

Calling all Solanum fans - this keys out as S nitidibaccum apart from petal width. Several plants with all petals like this. Plenty of normal-looking, white-flowered nearby. Any ideas, please?

Neil Young should have been searching here in Black Dog Woods - Poplars shedding hearts of gold everywhere!

And the yellows - Bristly Oxtongue, Black Medick (Bam-a-lam), Shaggy Soldier, Nipplewort and Yellow Corydalis for #WildflowerHour plus an irresistible urban Perennial Sowthistle.

The pinky-purple group for #WildflowerHour Field Madder making a modest comeback, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Herb Robert, Cyclamen, Selfheal and, getting down with the knotweeds, a Hardheaded. All in Bradford-on-Avon.

Witchgrass - stunning garden escape in Bradford-on-Avon for #WildflowerHour

A Round-leaved Geranium in focus! Amazing! Plus Trailing Bellflower, garden escape Plumbago, and a Forgetmenot for #WildflowerHour

A few for #FungiFriday from Picket Wood near Trowbridge

Purple-Stem Cliffbrake (Pellaea atropurpurea) on a wall by 12th & Jackson, shot Sunday. #Ferns #Wallplants #UrbanBotany #UrbanNature

After the rain and wind there are still a few brave flowers: Common Ragwort, Meadowsweet, Wild Carrot, Ivy & Upright Hedge Parsley, then Red Clover, Marsh Woundwort, a bedraggled Common Fleabane, Bramble & Herb Robert. All in Monassa, Co. Kilkenny for #WildflowerHour

Singles - including Penny Bun? - and troops of toadstools, all looking wonderful in the Monassa woods in Co. Kilkenny #FungiFriday

Nearly forgot these #WildWebsWednesday pics from this morning - spiders on Bramble and thistle, and a rose gall I don’t remember seeing before. Co. Kilkenny

And loads more for #MushroomMonday from Co. Kilkenny - an Apricot something, 2 Russia’s I think, and a ground-dwelling brackety thing! No books with me 🙄

Masses of the bonnets (?) on the grass here in Co. Kilkenny but just one gorgeous orange sponge on some wood - ID for that one would very welcome. #MushroomMonday

Very late for #WildflowerHour here are some #PavementPlants from last week in Bradford-on-Avon Field Poppy, Herb Robert, Opium Poppy and Hemp Agrimony.

Patrick Barkham’s eye-opening article about Lyme Disease www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Very well worth reading.

Here’s one from Waterford’s Meagher’s Quay: Ragweed on spoil where improvements are being made #WildflowerHour

Autumn colour from yesterday’s #WiltsBotSoc meeting at Great Wood, Grittenham - (Swedish?) Whitebeam, Wayfaing Tree, Bullace (very tasty!) and Wild Service Tree #WildflowerHour

From today’s walk in Bradford-on-Avon and Winsley here’s a self-sown Japanese Anemone on top of the pub wall, a Greater Celandine and some Ivy #WildflowerHour

No books, no brains with me - some mushies from outside Waterford Hospital #FungiFriday

Some #FernsOnFriday from Waterford: Hart’s Tongue, Polypody and Maidenhair Spleenwort decorating the Arts Quarter