So sad - an old, possibly Victorian, black iron gate adorned with decorative scrollwork with signs of rust and wear that has been dumped in a hedgerow and is slowly disappearing behind the foliage #IronworkThursday #ThursGate #lovegates

Princess Alexandra of Kent®, a bright pink shrub rose bred by David Austin 2007 and named in honour of Princess Alexandra of Kent, herself a keen gardener, seen in Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire 🩷 #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling

A delicate soft pink flower of Wild Blackberry, Rubus fruticosus, seen this week in Cambridgeshire #ClimbingPlants #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

White Bryony, Bryonia dioica, a fairly common but pretty climbing plant with curling tendrils and flowers with green veins on its hairy petals #ClimbingPlants #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Field Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis, although not very high is determined to climb up these tall grasses by wrapping itself around them; its funnel-shaped flowers looking more colourful from the rear #ClimbingPlants #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yellow Loosestrife, Lysimachia vulgaris with a visiting bee 💛 #SundayYellow #Stunday #FlowersonSunday #SundayFlowers #BloomScrolling #WildflowerHour

Warning sign about honeybees, seen yesterday at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire 🐝 #SignsonSunday #WarningSigns #Honeybees

A popular venue for pollinators celebrating #JacobinDay today - a Comma butterfly that was outnumbered by the bees on this local lavender bush 💜 #Butterflies #InsectThursday #ButterflyFriday @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Watching the world go by - a fluffy black Moorhen chick on a lilypad in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #WildlifeWednesday #WednesdayWildlife #WaterWednesday #UKWildlife #Birds

Fringed Willowherb, Epilobium ciliatum is considered one of the #invasiveplants in the UK; native to North America, it was first recorded here in the late C19th and has since aggressively naturalised across the country #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

St Peter's Church, Papworth Everard, had its origins in 13th/14th centuries but rebuilt in 1850s with a tower added in 1870s and a spire shortly after, but that was removed in 1963 as considered to be in a dangerous condition; 1888 lychgate now half-way up the path #TowerTuesday #SteepleSaturday

Vivid purple flowerhead near the top of a very tall Cotton Thistle, Onopordum acanthium, also known as the Scotch Thistle, seen recently at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social 💜 #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #FloralFriday #PurpleFriday #PurpleFlowers #Thistle #BloomScrolling

Lady of Shalott®, an orange-red shrub rose bred by David Austin in 2009 and named to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s birth, seen in Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire @midsandeastnt.bsky.social #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling

Seen from the sunny side and from the shade, a Japanese Zelkova tree in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, described as 'an elegant tree in the Elm family'. #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

A Thick-legged male flower beetle, Oedemera nobilis with its bright green body feeding on an equally bright pink Bloody Crane's-bill flower, Geranium sanguineum 💚🩷 #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Flowerhead of Wild Carrot, Daucus carota, its pink and white flowers starting to open and a tiny dark purple sterile flower to attract #PollinatorPals is visible in the centre #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A small selection from this week's wildflower wanders in Cambridge: Wall Lettuce (with Pollen Beetle & Marmalade Hoverfly), Mallow, Yellow Corydalis (with Pollen Beetle), Red Valerian, Self-Heal & Creeping Thistle #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

'Pathfinder Way': one of the signs on the 45 mile long distance walk in Cambridgeshire linking the historic RAF Pathfinder stations at Wyton, Graveley, Oakington and Warboys #FingerpostFriday

A Thick-legged male flower beetle, Oedemera nobilis with a metallic green body feeding on an Oxeye Daisy flower, Leucanthemum vulgare #WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #WildFlowers #Beetles

A mature European Hop-Hornbeam, Ostrya Carpinifolia in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social; it has a thick gnarled trunk with a deeply furrowed bark & several large branches that spread upwards, all surrounded by grasses & wildflowers on a sunny day 🍃 #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

A very obliging butterfly, Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria resting long enough for its photo to be taken in Wandlebury, Cambridgehsire (13.6.26) #Butterflies @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

St Peter's Church, Papworth Everard, Cambs & some of its #ChurchyardFlowers inc. Prickly Sowthistle, Slender Speedwell, Clover, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Black Horehound, Cinquefoil & a Stonecrop, Black Medick, Hoary Plantain, Self-heal #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Agrostemma githago, beautiful Corncockle flowers seen yesterday at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A spike of the yellow flowers of Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, each with an orange centre and a long tapering tube that contains nectar, seen this week at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire 💛 #SundayYellow #FlowersonSunday #SundayFlowers #BloomScrolling #WildflowerHour

Statue of Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting, situated in the Rose Garden at National Tust's Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (More details in ALT text) #SculptureSaturday #SaturdayStatue #StatueSaturday @midsandeastnt.bsky.social

A Variable Longhorn Beetle, Stenocorus meridianus, I think, resting on the edge of a rose at the National Trust's Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (5.6.26) @midsandeastnt.bsky.social #InsectThursday #Beetles #UKBeetles

A Tawny Longhorn Beetle, Paracorymbia fulva, I think, feeding on a Bramble flower #WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #Beetles #UKBeetles

Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta feeding on a small white Field Bindweed flower in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #WildFlowers #Pollinators #Hoverflies

A family of Geese crossing the path from Bottisham Lode near the Water Mill in the grounds of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater ##WildlifeWednesday #WaterWednesday #WaterfowlWednesday #BirdofTheDay #Geese

A mature Stone Pine, Pinus pinea in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social with a thick textured trunk and deeply furrowed bark, surrounded by dried grass on which there are scattered pine needles and cones #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

So lovely to see the elegant Martagon Lilies are now flowering and thriving in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PinkMonday #MagentaMonday #BloomScrolling

Some of this week's wildflowers from Cambridgeshire, Purple Loosestrife, Common Vetch, Oxeye Daisy, Field Bindweeds (white and pink & white), Creeping Bellflower, Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Cornflower, Ragwort & Common Mallow #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hedge Woundwort, Stachys sylvatica with its magenta-coloured flowers and hairy leaves arranged in whorls around its hairy stem, seen this week in Cambridgeshire #MagentaMonday #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Wood-Sorrel, Procumbent Yellow Sorrel or Sleeping Beauty, such a pretty but often disliked invasive wildflower 💛 #SundayYellow #FlowersonSunday #SundayFlowers #BloomScrolling #WildflowerHour

Dappled sunlight filtered through the leaf canopy along a favourite footpath in Wandlebury Woods, Cambridgeshire last week; it provided us with much needed shade before the rains came #FootpathFriday #WandleburyWoods

Bumblebee on a bramble flower before the rains came this week 🐝 #InsectThursday #WildWebsWednesday #Bees #Wildflowers #Pollinators

A small black fly, possibly a Pouting Woodlouse-fly (?), Rhinophora lepida that seems to be contemplating the depth of the funnel on this Field Bindweed flower before sampling the nectar 🪰 #WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #WildFlowers

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVocal One of the young Moorhen chicks chirping very loudly in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday #WildlifeWednesday #WednesdayWildlife #UKWildlife #Birds #Moorhen

Another mature Horse Chestnut tree from the grounds of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, with sunlight creating lighter patches on its textured trunk and scattered highlights on the ground through the leaf canopy above 🍃 #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

No Orchids I'm afraid, but I hope you like this week's wildflowers from Cambridgeshire: Common Knapweed, Wall Lettuce, White Clover, Smooth Sow-thistle, Black Medic, Dog Rose, Hedge Bindweed, Cornflower, Kidney Vetch, Field Bindweed #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A Painted Lady butterfly enjoying Nepeta in the Pollinator Garden yesterday at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire #Butterflies @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

A Silver Y moth, Autographa gamma resting on our garden fence today (colour was more greyish-brown) #MothsMatter #MigrantMoths #CambsMoths #MothMonday #InsectThursday

A sunny woodland scene in Cambridgeshire centred around a lovely 'Private' rural gate that has become surrounded by overgrown trees, shrubs and wild flowers 🍃 #RuralGate #ThursGate #lovegates

England's Rose® by David Austin, with its delicately ruffled vibrant pink petals that are paler towards the outer edge, seen recently at National Trust's Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire🩷 @midsandeastnt.bsky.social #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling

In the grounds of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, a large, mature Horse Chestnut tree with a textured trunk that divides into broad branches overhead and forms a leafy canopy, with sunlight filtering through its leaves 🍃 #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

Wandlebury's lush green and yellow water feature with Yellow Flag Irises and Yellow Water Lilies stealing the #WildflowerShow 💚💛 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Some of this week's wildflowers from Cambridgeshire, each would be worthy of inclusion in any #WildflowerShow (Names in ALT text) #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A Musk Thistle, Carduus nutans with its distinctive nodding flowerhead, seen earlier this week on a cloudy day in #Cambridge 💜 #MuskThistle #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A brightly coloured Yellow Water Lily, Nuphar lutea nestling against its floating oval-shaped lily pad leaf; seen this week in Cambridgeshire 💚💛 #SundayYellow #Stunday #FlowersonSunday #SundayFlowers #YellowFlowers #BloomScrolling #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour

A delicate pink and white flower of Dog rose, Rosa canina with a tiny Pollen Beetle on one petal and a small black Tachinid Fly on another 🩷🤍 #WildWebsWednesday #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #InsectThursday #WildFlowers #Pollinators