Bluebells, Beech and Sycamore. #ThickTrunkTuesday Ambleside, Cumbria

Approaching #ThickTrunkTuesday to the right. Lincolnshire farmland Oak.

Laying a hedge is a great winter #HedgerowChallenge and it is always a relief to see new shoots and the first Common Hawthorn flowers emerge the following season #WildFlowerHour

Wood Forget-me-not and Bluebell face their own annual #HedgerowChallenge being overshadowed by a planted Portuguese Laurel hedge surrounding a private Lincolnshire woodland #WildFlowerHour

Late afternoon sun and North Yorkshire Pickering sky shared with Colt’s-foot, Dandelion and Forget-me-not earlier in this week. #WildFlowerHour

Today’s on the way home from work Cuckooflowers amongst the Dandelions on a Lincolnshire village roadside verge #CabbageFamily #WildFlowerHour

To be fair I have not seen that many Orange Tip butterflies so far this season but there were plenty of Seven-spot Ladybirds to be seen amongst a favoured Orange Tip caterpillar food plant Garlic Mustard #WildWebsWednesday

A bonus spot of some indoor Daisies during a not always unexpected nod to botany with #JamesLive2026 at the Nottingham Arena last night.

A first time find for me of a Saxifrage so hopefully I am correct that this is Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage found at the edge of a North Yorkshire woodland path. #WoodlandPlants #WildFlowerHour

Bluebell and Greater Stitchwort, two #WoodlandPlants spilling out of the private woodland onto the public roadside verge #WildFlowerHour

What can you find flowering in woodland? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Post your finds using the hashtag #WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower-hunting!

Since my missed opportunity of seeing a #BeeFly last #WildWebsWednesday I am see them a plenty. Especially on sun warmed yellow starbursts of Lesser Celandine flowers.

The Towering Ash over the Tunnelling Blackthorn #ThickTrunkTuesday

This weeks #CowslipChallenge was to find last weeks #WildflowerHour “Story Plant” Cowslip amongst the volumes that are now surrounding it

April has us all aflutter with more beautiful butterflies and moths to look for in our gardens and green spaces 🌷🦋 What have you seen recently?

I saw two of my favourite Spring bees in the Taunton sun today: Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) and Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria). #bugsky

Finding joy in the small things! A lovely fresh female Tawny Mining bee just emerged and was out foraging in our garden today. The Wood Spurge flowers seemed to be her favourite food! 🧡📷 #MacroMonday #Photography #Nature #TheSmallThings #NativePlants #EastCoastKin

Danish Scurvygrass is racing along at mostly 60mph on the faster roads in Lincolnshire at the moment. #WildflowerHour

Grape Hyacinth garden escapees caught in the crosswind on a former Lincolnshire airfield. #WildflowerHour

From high above Ash #treeflowers look quite nondescript. I encountered these at eye level from a bridge over the River Slea, Lincolnshire. Tight clusters of purple anthers wrapped around the “burnt” black leaf bud. Turning grey/brown when they split open and disperse their pollen. #WildflowerHour

Farmland soil erosion caught in the crosswind. My draughty old work vehicle made for an atmospheric soundscape on RAF Metheringham a former WW2 Lincolnshire airfield today

Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

So as it turns out I still haven’t seen a #BeeFly so far this Spring as I completely missed this blurry furry individual clinging on to the Green Alkanet leaf when taking a picture for #WildflowerHour but maybe worth a tenuous entry for #WildWebsWednesday having perhaps filled up with nectar.

Jostling for your attention. A sunlit patch of Early Dog Violets under the Sarcococca shrub at the very end of my front garden path. #WildflowerHour

A solitary flowering Cowslip. The first of this seasons many on a Lincolnshire nature reserve. Once thought to be as abundant and accessible as the Buttercup, a story of a solitary Cowslip collated in Flora Brittanica by Richard Mabey can be found in the Alt Description #StoryPlants #WildflowerHour

Dead Hedging, Ditching and Hedge Laying. With the valuable help of local volunteers I have been able to complete the last of the Winter works this past week on three urban green spaces before Spring finally sets in.

Colt’s-foot emerging from the damp leaf litter that has overwintered at the lakeside edge #WildFlowerHour

Three storeys tall. The #WhiteFlowers of White dead-nettle #WildFlowerHour

A distinctive buzz and my first sighting this year of a male Hairy-footed Flower Bee. Another sign of Spring amongst the #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring Sweet Violets posted last Sunday. #WildWebsWednesday

No frills, burred Beech, Lincolnshire. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Sunlit sulphur yellow #SignsOfSpring amongst the twigs of the lakeside Goat Willow. #WildflowerHour

#SignsOfSpring underneath the “Residents Parking Only” sign. Red Dead-nettle out-sprung by purple flowered Sweet Violet which in turn is out-sprung by white flowered Sweet Violet, Viola odorata var dumetorum. #WildflowerHour

Possibly Netted Crust finding its way up a coppiced Hazel stake bound into a laid hedge. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

One of a number of nest boxes on an urban green space that I have cleaned dried and refurbished over the past couple of weeks. Within minutes of putting this one back up this morning in its original location two Blue Tits were checking it out.

Tumbling Toads on Tuesday.

Over the past week one rain soaked Cherry Plum flower became one amongst many. #WildflowerHour

A sunlit swathe of Sweet Violet making its way through urban Lincolnshire lakeside woodland. #WildflowerHour

The importance of dead trees.

I don’t think it unreasonable to expect the Environment Agency operatives that coppiced this willow on the River Witham, Lincolnshire, to have at least have shown a personal gesture of environmental goodwill by clearing a small pile of #litter that they would have seen, kicked away and trodden on.

A sketchy assumption that this is Artist’s Bracket #FungiFriday

#Mammal #Mustelidae #Ermine #WhiskersWednesday This very cute little assassin aka Short Tailed Weasel pauses just long enough for a look at it's whiskers.

A first Marmalade Hoverfly on a fourth fully opened Lesser Celandine seen so far this year #WildWebsWednesday

A Ramshorn Bagworm grazing the plains of lichen on top of a grave stone; carrying its home/sleeping bag as it goes. Luffia lapidella (Psychidae) caterpillar. #lepidoptera

Common Field Speedwell and Red Dead-nettle against the backdrop of an unusually blue rainless sky. #WildflowerHour

Several weeks behind last years first flowering. Marsh Marigold in a Lincolnshire nature reserve scrape. #WildflowerHour

My first find of a fully opened Lesser Celandine this year on a rural Lincolnshire verge. #WildflowerHour

Kingfisher in quite a nice pose! #bird #nature #photography #art #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #nikon

The first Toad of the year. Very much in a winter slumber in the cosy damp decaying trail of Great Willowherb stems

Canopy shy. Twisted heavy branches of English Oak meet the airy twiggy brush of Silver Birch #ThickTrunkTuesday

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