#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!

#wildflowerhour #GrassChallenge I was so overwhelmed by the huge variety of grasses in my local Anglesey meadows, that I thought a collage would be the best way to display them (along with some random wild flowers that happened to be there!)

#AquaticPlants for the #wildflowerhour challenge Water forget-me-nots and watercress in the very muddy, slippery stream behind my house!

It seems quite early for the rosebay willowherb, but here it is, with musk mallow in the meadow, honeysuckle on the hedge, red campion, & fox & cubs, all seen on the Wales coastal path this week for #wildflowerhour

Plenty of new colours emerging in my local #Anglesey woods atm, & here are a few for this week's #wildflowerhour I love the pink & white 'pencilled' cranesbill-such a precious find so deep in the woods! I also saw purple cranesbill, yellow iris, briar rose, comfrey & wood avens on today's walk

Quite a special orchid for this evening's #WildflowerHour... A white Lizard orchid that grows in the Midlands near my parent's house. The small colony is 16 this year, with two stunning white variants 🙂 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

The seed capsules of wild poppies are fascinating-like something you might see on a cake stand for afternoon tea!! #wildflowerhour

Various lovely wild flowers seen growing on marshy ground in the corner of the field behind my house today. Other than ragged robin & common clover, I haven't been able to positively #WildflowerID any of the others-so I'd be very happy if you could pls advise. Thank you! 🥰 #wildflowerhour

The lanes were bursting with colourful wildflowers this week-honeysuckle, unknown plant (please advise if you know!), yellow rattle, dog rose, & red clover among the field horsetail for #wildflowerhour

These common spotted orchids were hastily shot for this week's #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge when I found my usual 'go-to' spot for orchids had been overrun by adders 🐍 😱

Stinking iris, common comfrey (plus bee!), bladder campion, & common vetch, in various shades of pinky-purple for #wildflowerhour

Frustratingly, it was blowing a gale on the day I wanted to capture the #WildFlowerShow so I'm afraid all I can offer is a lot of bluster!!! #wildflowerhour

Swathe of Red Campion near Richmond, North Yorkshire #WildflowerHour #PinkFamily

Foxglove on the lane down, and sea-radish, thrift & holly in the dunes just yards from the sea, for this week's #wildflowerhour. It was so 🌞 I even had a quick swim!

For this week's #speedwell #wildflowerhour challenge, I think (hope!) we have common field and germander speedwell

So much choice when it comes to wildflowers at the moment-so here's a collage of just some I found today along the lanes and footpaths of my little patch of Anglesey #wildflowerhour

Three delicacies for this week's #wildflowerhour Scarlet pimpernel, common chickweed & rosy garlic, all seen flourishing on the lane leading to the beach at Penmon this afternoon

Yellow flag in our local pond. #wildflowerhour