The unmistakable sound of a nightingale at Ebernoe Common nature reserve. A beautiful wild place in West Sussex. Heard at least two singing today along with blackcaps, chiffchaffs, wrens, blackbirds, garden warblers and robins. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #nightingales

Love this waterfall into a little pool in a tufa stream. Moss, ivy & ferns, the leaning trunks in the woods. My little collies always stop for a drink here too.

The amount of AI book covers I saw at B&N today was depressing. I just hope that publishers realize that not only will I not read it, I wont even pick it up to look at the back, I do not care who the author is. "Don't judge a book by it's cover?" OHooooo, yeah I will.

Close up of one of the delicate wood sorrel flowers - just growing happily away on a mossy fallen branch #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Just Bellis perennis - the Common Daisy - growing in grass. #wildflowerhour

Bluebells in local woods. My favourite time of year 💙

Daisies in a lawn. Such a pretty sight, you wonder whoever had the idea to get rid of them!

Bristol Rare Plants Fair 😍 Lots of orchids & a super atmosphere with super food stalls outside ( Malaysuan & Sudanese),people sitting in the sunshine (watching the mining bees in the grass) familiar faces, & growers both passionate & knowledgeable about their plants.

First go at caning. I'm reasonably pleased though there are things I can improve for next time. This broken stool from a house clearance has a new lease of life at least. I stained the new cane down with VanDyke crystals in solution which are apparently made from walnut husks.

Spring blossom pick-me-up🩷🤍

Caisson Gardens near Bath this afternoon full of tulips and fruit blossom. This was in the Walled Garden where there are beds of cutting flowers, fruit & vegetables.

Corfu wildflowers... morning photos sent by my son & his gf who are walking the Corfu Trail. A very blue honesty & Judas trees in bloom everywhere - plus bee orchid types & Tassel hyacinths. Very lovely!

Love to hear that my Physics student son, who loved reading Pride and Prejudice, is trying to persuade other male physics friends to read it too, because it's chiefly a really good comedy - not a romance.

Daffodils for Good Friday. The scented white Thalias are from a corner of my garden, while the pretty peach ones were from Tesco. The trumpets are yellow when they open then change to apricot and with the white petals remind me of eggs! Anyone know what type they might be? They're quite short.

Wild Garlic flower and its shadow in some very welcome warm sunshine today.

A homemade Easter Simnel cake with homemade toasted marzipan topping too 😋 I actually prefer this to Christmas cake as orange & lemon zests make them fruitier & their flavour isn't overpowered with dark sugar & treacle. Traditionally - in our house - my husband's birthday cake 😄

Just before the hail there was sunshine - though it was cold & windy - & a surprise first Green-winged orchid of the season for me. Beside the golf course at Ashton Court in Bristol.

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Daffodils and forsythia. The pink trumpeted daffs might be Mrs R. O. Backhouse 🤔 I definitely planted them as I planted all the daffodils here, but most were in tubs first.

A sunny walk at Ashton Court this afternoon. Daffodils in the avenue are going over but the celandines are a treat! Skylarks singing, lots of peacock butterflies being territorial, a flitting brimstone, bee-flies on a large patch of primroses, a few bluebells already open - Spring jumps forward!

What are Lidl doing to Hot Cross Buns? It took me ages to track down traditional ones but meanwhile I found: Clementine Salted Caramel Double Chocolate Apple & Cinnamon and CHEESE Hot Cross Buns 😳😬

My two collies in the wars. The boy one collided with the girl so hard he broke his canine & left it embedded in her head. Wasn't until the next day anyone noticed as both dogs were unperturbed & playing as vigorously as ever. Anyway, the vet said they'd never seen anything like it😬

Plenty of #WhiteFlowers out there for the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! See ALT text for details of my favourites including that lovely white Violet. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

An amazing year for Sweet violets in Ely, this patch of var. dumetorum almost qualifying for the #WhiteFlowers challenge. #WildflowerHour

White Sweet Violets by the lane-side. Viola odorata var. dumetorum perhaps?? #wildflowerhour

Primroses (Primula vulgaris) in the woods & a wild garden to aspire to with drifts of finished snowdrops now changing to a bank of primroses & celandines. #wildflowerhour

Early Dog Violet (Viola reichenbachiana) nestling at the foot of an ash tree. #wildflowerhour

I haven't had a chance to look for wildflowers in a LONG time, sadly. But on a quick walk today I saw some of my favourites are out - beautiful Wood Anemones (Anemone nemerosa) Love their delicate purity. #wildflowerhour

My local Cherry Plum was looking breathtakingly beautiful this week, perfect for the #whiteflowers #wildflowerhour challenge! 🤍

Merger to take drone firm public is latest business move by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr as father is in White House

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

A short (distant) video of the white Hare at Buston, Northumberland this evening #UKmammals #wildlife

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste

"Look at me, I've got 14 petals!" There is always one show-off ...... 🙄 Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Spurge-laurel in full flower - it's got a really long flowering season hasn't it? - in a very steep-sided wood near Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire #WildflowerHour

Many primroses this week lining the banks of the Monarch’s Way in Gloucestershire. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour

Bumped into some lovely violets on one of my walks earlier in the week. #WildflowerHour

The very first of the Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, are starting to flower here and there. This one was in Lesnes Abbey Woods. #SignsOfSpring #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

A carpet of Sweet violets, St John’s Road, Ely. #WildflowerHour

Lovely Wood Anemone, (aka Windflower), Anemone nemorosa, among the Daffodils at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

The north-west corner of VC34 (West Glos) shining with the light of a million suns. #SignsofSpring #Wildflowerhour

Huge thanks to everyone who shared their lovely plant pix, lots of #SignsofSpring for tonight's #WildFlowerHour! Have a great week & remember to keep an eye out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social weekly challenge set by @botanybeck.bsky.social!

So many #SignsofSpring and so many gorgeous photos! Thank you all for sharing them and for making #wildflowerhour wonderful! Remember to keep a look out for the next challenge! Hope you all have a great week and happy flower hunting! ☺️

This junk shop vase is perfect for daffodils - & forsythia twigs are appreciated even more indoors. 💙💛

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Pots at the front are a delight. I planted them in October with cyclamen, violas and hyacinths. It's a sheltered doorstep so the cyclamen have flowered all winter, with good back-up from the violas (when the snails don't munch the blooms.) But the hyacinths now are stupendous!

Sunny celandines 🌞 I do love them.

1. A taster of the Bristol Light Festival. It's free event of art installations across the city, with 10 sites this year. These fairies in bell jars are hugely charming & clever - at the RWE. The pirate fairy looks like my eldest son 😄. Pirate, Rose & Robin fairy examples here.

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