I was so pleased to find my first common purple orchids of the year this afternoon, just a 5 minute walk away from my house! #wildflowerhour

There were so many hedgerow plants & flowers along the Anglesey lanes today, I had to make a collage for this week's #wildflowerhour #HedgerowChallenge Common vetch, hawthorn blossom, common dog violet, knotted hedge-parsley, red campion, germander speedwell, garlic mustard & cow parsley

There are wildflowers everwhere atm! Here's a sample of some seen on a local Anglesey walk this week: Celandine, wood anemone, wild garlic, wild cherry, red campion, iris (not quite in bloom), common dog violets (x2), honesty, & blue(& varie-coloured )bells, & comfrey #wildflowerhour

Native & Spanish bluebells of various hues and, one of my favourites, wood anemones, for this week's #wildflowerhour challenge, #WoodlandPlants

#wildflowerhour Another w'end away from home, so slim pickings from the banks of the very lovely, breezy river Severn at Shrewsbury today: Purple & white dead-nettle, & cuckoo flower (Lady's smock)

I'm away in the Canaries at the moment, so cheating a little bit for #wildflowerhour I'm surrounded by such beautiful vibrant colurs where I'm staying, it would be a pity not to share some of them!

Narcissi, symbols of Spring, joy & hope, & the vain youth, Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection! They represent new beginnings. Dog's mercury (poisonous & historically used to make blue dye), & Alexander flowers, Roman 'pot herb' to warm a cold stomach! #Wildflowerhour #StoryPlants

The woods were steep & slippery in places, but I clung on, determined to capture some evidence of the numerous sweet white violets-viola odorata-along with a purple & possibly early dog violet(?) for this week's #wildflowerhour #WhiteFlowers challenge!

I've wavered between marsh marigold & lesser celandine-and have settled for celandine! Whatever, I think they're a definite #signofspring for #wildflowerhour

#thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour hebe, white narcissus, daffodil, herb robert, blackthorn, alexanders, lesser celandine, red campion, periwinkle & gorse-on the Anglesey coastal path this week

Carpets of beautiful spring flowers in the cemetary where my parents are buried, on what would have been my father's 99th Birthday today-St David's Day! 🏵 #wildflowerhour

Vibrant Scarlet elf cap in the woods yesterday #fungi

Crocus, lesser celandine, daffodils & a solitary (late or early?!) birdsfoot trefoil, in bloom despite the saturated ground, for this week's #wildflowerhour

Venturing out yesterday after so much rain was such a tonic-and the masses of snowdrops were a delight to behold! #wildflowerhour

Not all snowdrops' lives are equal, but all are equally beautiful! #wildflowerhour

My #thewinter10 for this week's #wildflowerhour which luckily I snapped before it snowed today!

A friend assures me that the plant on the left is a cowslip but isn't it too early!? I'm fairly confident the second pic is of pretty primula vulgaris-common primrose #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour The first #TheWinter10 for me. It was great to see such diverse blooms on one short walk along the Anglesey coastal path yesterday! And the first winter heliotrope in flower-always late on the island

Cotoneaster & Bergenia 'Elephants ears, both seen on the coastal path across the Great Orme in Llandudno this week for #wildflowerhour

To make up for Sunday's lack of wildflowers on my part, here's some beautiful #winter #trees taken in a local #woodland today on my annual hunt for a few sprigs of holly-it was so relaxing away from all the frenetic pre-Christmas activity-but there were fewer berries than last year

Some unassuming little flowers still blooming for this week's #wildflowerhour Yarrow, gorse & red campion

Winter heliotrope in flower this week in East Sussex #wildflowerhour

Christmas has come early to my local hedgerow! #wildflowerhour

I wandered down to the shore for this week's #wildflowerhour and found an abundance of mayweed-or is it chamomile? It brightened my afternoon anyway!

Just some well-known, common wildflowers for this week's #wildflowerhour #thewinterten as there aren't many more to be found at the moment!

Teasels among the gravestones on an off-shore island off the Isle of Anglesey yesterday for #wildflowerhour

#WildFungiHour These honey fungi were prolific in local woodland this week #Anglesey #Wildflowerhour

Musk mallow, fox & cubs, and lady's bedstraw in the meadow in south Anglesey. Cheery bright colours for this darker time of year ✨️ #wildflowerhour

Beautiful autumn leaves pretending to be wild flowers for #wildflowerhour 😉

It's great to still see splashes of colour along the lanes & local beaches for #wildflowerhour Honesty (always the best policy!), sea thrift on the rocks (a new cocktail perhaps?!), & red campion-Silene dioica

Flashes of orange & lemon for this week's #wildflowerhour Nipplewort, dandelion, buttercup & gorse along the autumn coastal path

It was great to see that so many wild plants & flowers had survived the ravages of #StormAmy (Catmint, meadowsweet, StJohn's wort, pink & white common hogweed-Heracleum sphondylium, red campion, & chamomile flowers (on a rocky shore) on #Anglesey #wildflowerhour

Just some pretty #wildflowerhour coastal flowers on an #Anglesey beach today. I suspect the 'dandelions' are sow thistles-they had such a presence as they were so tall!

Lots of vibrant colours on the coastal path today for #wildflowerhour Really pleased to see the chickory-only the second one I've seen in bloom this year 😀

In July I was so pleased to find a large cluster of harebells hiding in plain sight quite close to where I live, that I made a collage of them for the #FavouritePlant challenge for #wildflowerhour If you look closely at the bottom right, you might spot an actual fairy!! 🧚

An interesting George V postbox in the middle of Llandudno seems quite at home here! #postboxsaturday

For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube

A selection of #SeedHeads for this week's #WildflowerHour - names in ALT text. I tried to find a few with flowers as well as seeds on the same plant, to add some colour! 🙂 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Such intricate delicacy-these wild carrots deserve a post of their own! #wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

Some local Anglesey #SeedHeads for this week's #wildflowerhour challenge: Wild carrot in various stages, common hogweed, old man's beard (clematis), & a forlorn-looking dandelion!

Rosa canina #fruits #wildflowerhour

Hawthorn, blackberries, sloe (blackthorn), & elderberries, for this week's #wildflowerhour #fruits challenge

My first post for #wildflowerhour and it's the stunning Marsh Gentian seen in Surrey earlier this week ❤️ #Gentianfamily

What's this, creeping over a creeping thistle? #wildflowerhour

Marsh Gentians, Gentiana pneumonanthe, in good numbers on a wet heath in Dorset yesterday. #wildflowerhour #GentianFamily

Crazed-looking spear thistle, still colourful local meadow, and double-headed musk mallow along the north Wales coastal path this afternoon for #wildflowerhour

Sea thrift, hemp agrimony & greater knapweed in SE Anglesey, taken before I went on holiday a couple of weeks ago for #wildflowethour

Beautiful colours of #ByTheSea wildflowers for this week's #wildflowerhour challenge (woody nightshade, wild radish sea thrift, sea holly, sea rocket, & various grasses)

The delicate harebells were a joy to behold on Brwdd Arthur (Arthur's seat), Anglesey this afternoon #HarebellChallenge #wildflowerhour

Contrasting colours and textures along the blustery Anglesey lanes for this week's #wildflowerhour All were quite prolific, with the exception of the selfheal-Prunella vulgaris-which was seen at the bottom of a style along the coastal path!