#naturewriting Larkspur found on the Thames Path near Woolwich

#naturewriting on Plumstead Common this morning.

Field blewit on Woolwich Common

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

#naturewriting I’ve now read Trevor Dine’s Urban plants twice and keep dipping in. It’s one of the most compelling, captivating, well researched books I’ve read in years. To combine scholarship with such engaging prose and a brilliant choice of images is the work of a writer of real distinction.

#naturewriting along the Turkey Brook

#naturewriting dying leaves reflected in the waters of the Turkey Brook

Monks face growing near the Turkey Brook

#naturewriting Sainfoin and Clover near Otford

#naturewriting Lovely Vipers bugloss on Woolwich Common today. First for five years.

@royalgreenwich.bsky.social please remove the illegally erected flags in Charlton Village which appeared at 11.30 on Friday night. A gang of men arrived with ladders and equipment. You could recycle them for when the King hits 80.

Come if you can

The devastation after the fires on Woolwich Common

@naturewriting All these birds sighted at the Ecology Park on Greenwich peninsula

#naturewriting Monkey flower and Harebells in Northumberland

#naturewriting Yarrow on Woolwich Common this week

#naturewriting yellow plums, green apples and very blackberries on Woolwich Common in abundance. A feast for SE Londoners.

#Jersey Tiger Moth on my window. Becoming much more common in London

@alexgrant24.bsky.social and the answer is virtue signal and waffle and avoid answering the question.

#naturewriting a magnificent stag beetle in my garden in SE London

#naturewriting Heath fritillary in Blean Woods

#naturewriting street plants. All in SE18 and SE7 Pokeweed Mallow Dovesfoot cranesbill Alfafa

#naturewriting Marbled white on Woolwich Common

#naturewriting mating buff-tailed bumblebees on Woolwich Common

#naturewriting on Rainham marshes, Black horehound, a ping hogweed, Holly blue, Goats rue

Street plants in East Cowes Purple toadflax, Catsear, Californian poppy and Quaking grass.

#naturewriting red Hawthorn on Woolwich Common

#Naturewtiting Pink sorrel - a relative of our native wood sorrel. It from South America, the petals curl up like rolled sheets of paper when sun goes in. On Woolwich Common.

#naturewriting 1 of the loveliest of spring flowers - Star of Bethlehem Ornithogalum umbellatum (Latin 4 bird milk narrow leaf). It only opens in sunshine & has 6 white petals c a green strip on the back. It’s probably native in E England. Found in grassy places, meadows & sometimes on verges.

#naturewriting Almost hidden by a web of wandering brambles we found a tiny oak tree that was mostly dead. However, one small trunk was festooned with these. They are marble galls caused by a gall wasp deliberately introduced into Britain in the 19th C as the galls are a good source of tannin.

Before and after Greenwich Council destroyed least 14 wild flowers on the Haha with the poison glyphosate. They were not a trip hazard and not even on the footway. They included the rare double Greater celandine, Hoarycress, White campion and Pokeweed amongst others. RBG ignore protests.

@joshuarozenberg.bsky.social Can this KC be removed? He respects neither the law nor women.

#naturewriting Lovely find at Rye Harbour. Coltsfoot in seed looking like haloed angels.

#naturewruting First Greater celandine blooming today. Woolwich Common

#naturewriting blackthorn in Woolwich Common

Joyful exhibition of darned socks at the Now Gallery on the Peninsula. 1st all by pupils at Surry Square School, 2nd by visitors. The one with the darned blue toe is one I put in the bin and rescued for this display.

#naturewriting Green alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens brightening up a street in Charlton.

#naturewriting Rumex sanguineus in Lesnes woods

#naturewriting Sweet violet viola odorata gracing the kerb in Charlton

#naturewriting Lesnes woods in SE London. Abbey Wood on the Lizzie line. Narcissus pseudonarcissus It’s the largest colony of these in G London. They often grow in the lands surrounding an Abbey. The woods are ancient woodland and there are indicator species such as Wood anemone Anemone nemorosa

#naturewriting. Spring sunshine and a freshly washed blanket bringing joy to middle aged bones.

Don’t ignore street plants. Little mouse ear chickweed in SE7 today

Wonderful mudlarking finds at an exhibition at Watermans Hall today from prehistoric through Anglo Saxon, mediaeval, Tudor, through the following centuries to today where phones and false teeth had also been found!

Local park and roadside. SE7. Crocus, daffodil, snowdrop. And Green alkanet and Periwinkle.

#naturewriting on Woolwich Common today. Cherry plum, Hazel catkins, Lesser celandine, Crocus. Spring is definitely on its way.

#naturewriting Stunning embroidered pictures at Bankside Gallery. Lichen, fern and landscape. Many more the there to marvel at.