Some hints of spring amid the greyness: Primrose, Red Deadnettle, Sweet Violet, Groundsel and Hazel. Forgetmenot, Balkan Spurge, Oxford Ragwort, Chickweed and cheery Sun Surge make #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour and then some bonus Snowdrops.

Final #thewinter10 for January in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour: Primrose, Lesser Celandine, Groundsel, Red Dead-nettle, Spurge Laurel, Snowdrop, Greater Periwinkle, Stinking Hellebore, Hogweed & Hazel. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Wood Avens, Geum urbanum, at Hoblingwell Wood, LB Bromley. 💛 #WildflowerHour

Spurge Laurel, Daphne laureola, at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon. For me this is one of the heralds of a new year of botanising, bringing with it the anticipation of seeking out new (to me) species, and the revisiting of familiar ones. Always something new to learn! #WildflowerHour

#Wildflowerhour A pin-eyed Primrose, Primula vulgaris braves the rain on a trackside bank near Monmouth.

#TheWinter10 plus 2: Stinking Hellebore, Common Field-speedwell, Lesser Celandine, Trailing Bellflower and a Crocus 🥰 from springlike Mells in Somerset. Groundsel, White Deadnettle, Petty Spurge, Red Deadnettle and Forgetmenot from cloudy B-on-A. Bonus Snowdrops; Common and Pleated. #WildflowerHour

A rather sodden #thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour: Lesser Celandine, Common Ragwort, Dog Mercury, Yarrow, Snowdrop, Winter Aconite, Stinking Hellebore, Red & White Dead-nettles & Trailing Bellflower. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#Wildflowerhour Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Winter Aconites, Petty Spurge, Winter Heliotrope, Snowdrops and Stinking Hellebores found in N.Lancs and S. Cumbria this week.

#theWinter10 harder to find this week! Bedraggled Daisy family first: Feverfew, Daisy, Dandelion, Mexican Fleabane and (the only one shrugging off weather) Winter Heliotrope. Then grubby Forgetmenot, Annual Mercury, wind blown Creeping Buttercup, Petty Spurge and Red Deadnettle #WildflowerHour

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour but did you manage to find anything in bloom amidst the snow & ice!!! 🥶❄️

A hard-won #thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour: Trailing Bellflower, Greater Periwinkle, Winter Heliotrope, Creeping Comfrey, Spurge Laurel, Snowdrop, Winter Aconite, Stinking Hellebore, Primrose & Hazel ♂. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

What estate agents call “the desirable Bath side of town” was much harder work for my second #NewYearPlantHunt due to tidy brigade and frost. Campanulas posch ‘n’ port (I can see someone in Hampshire wincing at that) always flowering but the Muscari was a surprise.

#theWinter10 at #NewYearPlantHunt for #WildflowerHour Trailing & Adria Bellflower, Sun Spurge & Grape Hyacinth, then previously frozen versus fresh Round-leaved Cranesbill, & then Groundsel, Forgetmenot, Fuchsia, Oxford Ragwort & Green Alkanet. That was 4 days of fun; what’s next? 😄

First #thewinter10 of 2026 in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Hogweed, Winter Heliotrope, White Dead-nettle, Dandelion, Stinking Hellebore, Spurge Laurel, Hazel ♂, Snowdrop, Gorse & Lesser Celandine. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Last posts of #theWinter10 for 2025 - Dappled Hawkweed, Daisy, Common Ragwort, Scentless Mayweed and Silver Ragwort, then Primrose, Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Common Field-speedwell, Chickweed and Lesser Celandine for #WildflowerHour

Another batch of #theWinter10 - Bush Vetch, Perennial Cornflower, Hazel catkins, Greater Periwinkle and Winter Heliotrope, then Common Fumitory, Hogweed, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Creeping Buttercup and Grey-leaved Speedwell #WildflowerHour

Final #thewinter10 for 2025 in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Wood Avens, Winter Heliotrope, Primrose, Gorse, Snowdrop, Winter Aconite, Hazel ♂, Germander Speedwell (?), Common Ragwort & Yarrow. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Second batch #theWinter10 Japanese Anemone, Chickweed, Red Deadnettle, Knotweed & Sun Spurge; Guernsey Fleabane, Smooth Sowthistle, Groundsel, Bristly Oxtongue & Annual Mercury all from Bradford-on-Avon #WildflowerHour

#theWinter10 from Combe Down, Bath: (Tazetta?) Daffodil, Yellow Corydalis, Nipplewort, Dandelion & Ox-eye Daisy; Herb Robert, Wild Mignonette, Green Alkanet, White Deadnettle & Red Valerian #WildflowerHour

Unexpectedly, #thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Hogweed, Red Dead-nettle, Dandelion, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Winter Heliotrope, Creeping Comfrey, Hazel ♂, Lesser Celandine & Smooth Sowthistle. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Only 6 for #TheWinter10 this week. Locally, Oxford Ragwort, Feverfew & Bilbao’s Fleabane (I think), then from West Norwood Shaggy Soldier, Pellitory-of-the-wall at the Covid Memorial Wall, and Lavender escaped from either Lambeth Palace or The Garden Museum.

#thewinter10 (quite hard-won) in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Winter Heliotrope, Primrose, White Deadnettle, Trailing bellflower, Germander Speedwell, Yarrow, Common Cat's Ear, Common Ragwort, Wood Avens & Ivy-leaved Toadflax. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour #thewinterten Surprised myself by managing to find ten slightly bedraggled plants in flower on a rainy walk around our village today. Dandelion, daisy, red valerian, red deadnettle, hazel, primrose, yarrow (red and white forms) petty spurge, and white deadnettle.

Bush vetch - Vicia sepium still flowering in the copse where the mower missed earlier in the year. #Wildflowerhour

A very wet #thewinter10 challenge this week, from the hedgerows around my Dorset village. Still flowering, well into December!! #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#TheWinter10 Top L/R: Lacy Phacelia, White Dead-nettle, Common Cat's-ear, Common groundsel, White Campion and Bramble Bottom L/R: White Ramping-fumitory, Shepherd's Purse, Annual Mercury and Pot Marigold (an escapee) #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#Wildflowerhour A celebration of winter beauty in winter heliotrope, such a welcome sight, from their liquorice alsort' centre of tiny flowers that open revealing a soft purple centre. #Preston yesterday. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #bloomscrolling #Lancashire

An Ely #TheWinter10. Winter heliotrope, Shepherd’s purse, Scarlet pimpernel, Bristly oxtongue, Common storksbill, Ragwort, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Daisy, Blue fleabane and Red valerian. #WildflowerHour

#TheWinter10 from Bradford-on-Avon: Groundsel, Shaggy Soldier, Forgetmenot, Mexican Fleabane, Annual Mercury, Pot Marigold, white Red Valerian, Herb Robert, White Deadnettle and Daisy. Phew! #WildflowerHour not so easy this week.

No #thewinter10 this week, but 7 mostly bedraggled flowers in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Trailing bellflower, Primrose, Mexican Fleebane, Winter Heliotrope, Welsh Poppy, Wood Avens & White Deadnettle. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The largest specimen of Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica) I've encountered to date: approx. 6 cm by 8.5 cm. Really stood out in the woodland. #fungi #Mycology #nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLovers #UKFungi

#thewinter10 (looking mostly moribund) in N. Wilts. for #wildflowerhour: Dandelion, White Deadnettle, Trailing Bellflower, Red Campion, Wild Carrot, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Prickly Sowthistle, Bristly Oxtongue, Primrose & Red Valerian #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#thewinter10 (rather bedraggled) in N. Wilts. for the #WildflowerHour challenge: Bramble, Red Campion, Daisy, Hemp Agrimony, Upright Hedge Parsley, Welsh Poppy, Creeping Thistle, Wild Carrot, Prickly Oxtongue & Common Ragwort #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) fruits looking almost luminous amidst yesterday's sodden gloom along the Broadmead Brook in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#theWinter10 are all yellow this week with Groundsel, Smooth Sowthistle, Dandelion, Bristly Oxtongue and Common Ragwort, then Yellow Corydalis, Hedge Mustard, Hoary Mustard, Nipplewort and Hawkweed Oxtongue. All from Wiltshire for #WildflowerHour

#thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for the #WildflowerHour challenge: Hogweed, Burnet Saxifrage, Wild Angelica, White Dead-nettle, Wild Basil, Bush Vetch, Welted Thistle, Devil's-bit Scabious, Ivy-leaved Toadflax & Trailing Bellflower. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The second half of #theWinter10 mostly from Bradford-on-Avon for #WildflowerHour Trailing Bellflower, Dwarf Mallow, Chalk Knapweed, Michaelmas Daisy and Purple Toadflax

First half of #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour - Bramble, Herb Robert, Himalayan Balsam, Meadow Cranesbill and Red Campion. All from Bradford-on-Avon this week.

#thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour: Burnet Saxifrage, Creeping Thistle, Herb Robert, Dandelion, Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Wild Angelica, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Lesser Burdock, Red Campion & Prickly Sowthistle. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Strikingly cerise Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) fruits showing the bright orange seeds in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Small Toadflax, Viper’s Bugloss, Wild Mignonette, Saw-wort and Common Toadflax from sites near Upavon for #WildflowerHour

Between buses in Trowbridge I found some nice #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour Hemp Agrimony, Common Mallow, Thornapple (a lot of it about this year), Michaelmas Daisy and a Snapdragon.

Some fungi from N. Wilts. for #WildFungiHour. Some IDs uncertain - any help appreciated. Pleated Inkcap, Common Inkcap, Candlesnuff fungus, Persistent Waxcap ?, Chicken-of-the Woods, Shaggy Inkcap, Dryad's Saddle, Jelly Ear, ? Waxcap & ? Bonnet. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Flowers in bloom in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour: Daisy, White Deadnettle, Herb Robert, Common Ragwort, Red Campion, Spear Thistle, Common Knapweed (rayed), Hop Trefoil, Meadow Buttercup & Devil's-bit Scabious. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

From a surprise organic arable edge on Greensand - two versions of Green Nightshade, Corn Spurrey with Bugloss, and Small Nettle for #WildflowerHour

Spindle, Oxford Ragwort, Wild Strawberry, Red Campion and Tall Melilot from a variety of habitats for #WildflowerHour

Flowers soldiering on in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour: Dewberry, Smooth Sowthistle, Rough Hawkbit, Trailing & Nettle-leaved Bellflowers, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Red Clover, Teasel, Common Mouse-ear & Burnet Saxifrage. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

1st of 2 collages of flowers in N. Wilts. for this week's #WildflowerHour: Common Mallow, Hogweed, Ivy, White Dead-nettle, Red Campion, Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Lesser Burdock, Water Figwort, Dandelion & Prickly Sowthistle. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social