Why it's good to plant marjoram! Lots of pollinators love the flowers

Young robin, finding its way in the world, well camouflaged for foraging in the undergrowth

Rose 'Stanwell Perpetual' Couple of these scent a whole room #RoseWednesday

Monday blues Borage flower

Viola tricolor #wildflowerhour

Giant scabious (Cephalaria) and dark elder

Jersey tiger moth, as big as a butterfly, with beautiful orange underwings

'Mermaid' rose, large, very vicious thorns, but big flat open flowers that pollinators like #RoseWednesday

Hornet hoverfly-impressive creature-big, scary-looking, but is harmless and doesn't sting

Monday blues Chicory flower

Cartoon from @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🦊

Rosa mutabilis #RoseWednesday A large, sprawling shrub, flowers several times These beautiful flowers start off pale and deepen in colour as they age

10 years since the brexit vote, and all the cartoons...

Scorching hot day lilies ☀️

#PollinatorPals This tiny bee is a pollinator specific to bellflowers Nettle-leaved bellflower #wildflowerhour bwars.com/bee/megachil...

King of the compost heap

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm 🪲🦋🪰🐝

Patriotic plants on the Caledonian Road ⚽

Bonica rose, free flowering #RoseWednesday

Monday blues Sea holly in the churchyard garden at St John's, Waterloo, central London

Tuscany Superb, a good strong rose, scented, rich colour and attractive to bees 🐝 and hoverflies #RoseWednesday

Monday blues Lots of lovely London lavender Vauxhall Park, Lambeth pic from last week, when it wasn't raining

Tufted vetch, attracting carder bees, in Runnymede meadow-Magna Carta was signed nearby #wildflowerhour

www.pressreader.com/uk/the-londo... Piece about #communitygardens of east London opening for this weekend's event londongardenstrust.org/whatson/lond...

Big walnut tree at Bonnington Square, mallow at Harleyford Road #communitygarden and bee 🐝 sheltering beneath a globe thistle in the garden at Vauxhall City Farm

Rose 'Compassion' #RoseWednesday A good strong rose, sweetly scented

Monday blues Campanula persicifolia -peach-leaved bellflower and campanula bees which like the flowers 🐝

Wild strawberry #wildflowerhour

Like the newfangled drying system! Cartoon from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Spotted opposite the Emirates yesterday-north London will be lively this weekend #arsenal

This is a good plant for many different bees 🐝 They like the flowers, and the furry leaves provide nest material Phlomis italica is also quite heat-tolerant

Rampant rose 'Paul's Himalayan Musk' #RoseWednesday

Exuberant combination of rose 'New Dawn' and clematis-'Lady Diana' #RoseWednesday

Spotted a brimstone moth this afternoon, probably trying to keep cool like the rest of us

Blackberries are good for pollinators 🐝

Monday blues Nigella, love-in-a-mist

Meadow cranesbill #wildflowerhour

Lots of Mexican daisies A fiesta on a hot London Friday

The banner is up! Come and visit the Garden - 11am to 4pm both days.

Strange and wonderful Australian plants #ChelseaFlowerShow2026 www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

Strange and wonderful Australian plants #ChelseaFlowerShow2026 www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

It’s the #ChelseaFlowerShow2026 this week so why don’t we have a #WildFlowerShow for #WildflowerHour? Find wildflowers or combinations of several wildflower species looking absolutely spectacular & share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm! I wonder, if there will be a best-in-show?😉🏆

www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events... at Chelsea in the Great Pavilion

Monday blues Iris sibirica

Teeny tiny flowers of corn salad #tinyplants #wildflowerhour Valerianella locusta

Sunnyside #communitygarden in Archway

Venturing into a south London jungle... Walworth Garden, round the corner from Kennington tube station #communitygarden

Possibly the biggest banksia rose in London? A whopper at Roots and Shoots #communitygarden #RoseWednesday

rose 'Schoolgirl' #RoseWednesday

Flower, and shrub, of Rosa moyesii, a species rose #RoseWednesday