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Guardian Environment
about 1 month ago
Country diary: A palace of sunlight on a short winterâs day
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Country diary: A palace of sunlight on a short winterâs day
Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland: Thereâs not much light to play with today, deep in midwinter, but this once-coveted fort still puts on a show
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/07/country-diary-a-palace-of-sunlight-on-a-short-winters-day?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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reposted by
Le Plantoscope
about 1 month ago
#PDJ183
- Je vous avais déjà parlé de Wolffia globosa ? Voici un nouveau format pour la découvrir ! C'est l'une des plus petites plantes à fleurs du monde !
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Armillaria cepistipes (I think!) for
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4 months ago
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Amanita citrina, False Death-cap for
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4 months ago
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Ilex aquifolia, Holly for
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4 months ago
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Crab Apples! Malus sylvestris for
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, sorry
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4 months ago
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Sorbus torminalis, Wild Service for
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4 months ago
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Geranium dissecting, Cut-leaf Geranium for
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Bidens frondosa, Beggarticks for
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Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, Floating Pennywort for
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4 months ago
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Epipactis helleborine, Broad-leaved Helleborine for
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4 months ago
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Heather for
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. You donât get much in Essex! Tiptree Heath.
4 months ago
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Wood Sage for
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. Tiptree, Essex
4 months ago
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Common Centaury, small but mighty! Tiptree Heath, Essex.
#wildflowerhour
4 months ago
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I donât really do favourites so here is Water Horsetail
#wildflowerhour
#favouriteplant
5 months ago
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The Guardian view on Englandâs riverbanks: landscapes that everyone should be able to enjoy | Editorial
Editorial: Only a small sliver of riverside land is accessible to the public. Rights of way shouldnât depend on the goodwill of landowners
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/the-guardian-view-on-englands-riverbanks-landscapes-that-everyone-should-be-able-to-enjoy
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Half of UK councils still use pesticides in public places, research finds
Pesticide-free movement has grown, but many local authorities still spray weedkiller linked to wildlife declines and cancer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/30/uk-councils-pesticides-weedkiller-glyphosate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 months ago
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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica. Not particularly hairy but may help alleviate the sneezes caused by getting too near to hairy plants for
#wildflowerhour
#hairyplants
!
7 months ago
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reposted by
Gregory Norminton
7 months ago
It's probably fine.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Wild Candytuft, Iberis amara on south facing chalk grassland, South Oxfordshire.
#wildflowerhour
8 months ago
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Dropwort, Filipendula vulgaris almost outnumbering the orchids at Aston Rowant NNR.
#wildflowerhour
8 months ago
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Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, on chalk grassland. Aston Rowant NNR, South Oxfordshire.
#wildflowerhour
. Not
#urbanplants
but very close to the M40!
8 months ago
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Wild Candytuft, Iberia amara. Something of a Chilterns specialist. Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire.
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Squinancywort (cool name!), Asperula cynanchica a chalk grassland specialist. Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire.
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Musk Thistle, Carduus nutans on chalk grassland at Aston Rowant NNR.
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Lizard Orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum near the River Colne in Colchester. We managed to save it from the council strimmers.
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Honeysuckle (lovely name), Lonicera periclymen adorning the hedges along the Colne near Colchester.
8 months ago
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Hemlock water-dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, common along the tidal Colne in Colchester.
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Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris. Its name refers to its traditional use in medicine. For example, it was apparently used for the treatment of diptheria.
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Fox-and-cubs, Pilosella aurantiaca on an un-mown roadside verge in Colchester. The âfoxâ is the open flower, surrounded by the âcubsâ, the unopened flower buds.
8 months ago
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reposted by
Julian Hoffman
8 months ago
Important piece by Helena Horton on Lodge Hill and its nightingales, a place that I wrote a chapter about in Irreplaceable because of its significance - together with the idiocy of biodiversity offsetting for such a unique and valuable wildlife site.
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âAll the birdsong in the world in one soundâ: Englandâs nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britainâs most at-risk birds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/04/england-nightingale-sanctuary-at-risk-from-planning-bill
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It was on top of a bank if that counts for
#highupplants
Subterannean Clover for
#wildflowerhour
9 months ago
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Perfoliate Alexanders, Smyrnium perfoliatum. Self-seeded in my garden from an unknown source.
10 months ago
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Flowers of the Red Oak, Quercus rubra. The male flowers in pendulous racemes, the female flowers just visible in the leaf axils of the new shoot.
10 months ago
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An interesting one which appears to be Pyrus calleryana. An amenity planting but it has been left to look after itself so sort of wild!
#wildflowerhour
#treeflowers
10 months ago
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Ash for
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#treeflowers
10 months ago
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Goat Willow for
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#treefllowers
10 months ago
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Blackthorn of course. It can form a tree.
#wildflowerhour
#treeflowers
10 months ago
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Gean, wild cherry, for
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#treefllowers
10 months ago
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Oak for
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#treeflowers
10 months ago
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Willow spp for
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Norway Maple for
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#treeflowers
10 months ago
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Bird Cherry for
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10 months ago
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Blackcurrant beside a pond!
10 months ago
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Hypericum androsaemum, Tutsan, in riverine woodland, North Essex.
10 months ago
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Field Wood-rush (Good Friday Grass), Luzula campestris. Another welcome addition to my garden.
10 months ago
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Field Horsetail, Equisetum arvense. Welcome in my front garden.
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Moschatel
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10 months ago
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Cowslip.
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10 months ago
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Norway Maple.
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10 months ago
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