Dune Pansy (Viola tricolor subsp. curtisii) living up to its name, nearly buried in the sand at Aberffraw dunes, Ynys Môn (Anglesey). These #tinyplants were probably covered just a few days before flowering, with only the buds exposed above the sand #wildflowerhour

A #WildflowerHour Rose but not sure which one, in a scrap of scrub on old meads near Walton on Thames. #PlantNet gives 48% for Rosa micrantha but I will have to go back to examine the shape of the prickles... #WildflowerID

Probably hundreds of thousands of Green-winged orchids (Anacamptis morio)on the meadows of Ashton Court park, Bristol. A gorgeous spectacle, with orchids in bi-colours, pale pinks, whites & much more. #wildflowerhour

Immediately recognisable standing head and shoulders above the background vegetation, a superb spike or two of Green Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum germanicum) #WildflowerHour in a dark corner of woodland above Gomshall

Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) out on the chalky N Downs, available in many (and multi-) colours. Hybridisation maybe. #WildflowerHour

A super-abundance of White Helleborine (Cepelanthera damasonium) on and around the North Downs these days ... Once you get your eye in. #WildflowerHour

How small does it have to be to be Slender Trefoil (Trifolium micranthum) and not Lesser Trefoil (Trifolium dubium)? #carrotsandpeas #WildflowerHour #WildflowerID (that's the weave on my jeans!)

Super abundance of, I think, Common Stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium) on acres of newly-opened area of arid sandy grassland in NW Quadrant of M25J10 #WildflowerHour

Guess that Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is loving the warmer wetter Winters and very dry Spring, doing really well, popping up everywhere on our poor Surrey sand wild'ish garden #WildflowerHour

Navelwort (Umbilicus rupestris) allegedly so called because of the dip in the midriff of the leaves, always somewhat alien-looking #HedgerowChallenge #WildflowerHour

Pink Purslane (Claytonia sibirica) escaping under a hedge, not tooooo invasive #HedgerowChallenge #WildflowerHour

Not exactly fit for #HedgerowChallenge but on travels this week #CornishHedges are spectacular and often highly diverse #WildflowerHour

Spotting a few Cuckoo flowers is easy; finding a sea of them feels like magic—just right for this week’s #CabbageFamily challenge #WildflowerHour

Scurvygrass on the Lizard, just about surviving the various invasions of Three-cornered Garlic, Hottentot Fig etc. Not sure if Common or English species, fairly tall so suspect Cochlearia anglica #WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily

Cuckoo Flower with its top butterfly partner, a female Orange Tip, eggs laid here ... #WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily

Interested whether these Early Purple Orchids were a bit veiny? Possibly a touch of the Green-winged Orchid'ness? Leaves remarkably unspotted. #WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID

Nice variety of Early Purple Orchids (Orchis mascula) in Surrey bluebell woods, many quite spotless! #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

Primrose, probably another hybrid, cheering up a Surrey ditch #wildflowerhour

Thanks to a small outcrop of chalk, at the end of a long loop of the Greensand up to Leith Hill, the near total lack of flowers compensated by a great hedge of Winter Heliotrope #GeologyMatters #WildFlowerHour

Lucky to catch a pair of Barn Owls hunting together at the furthest point of the Blakeney/Cley sea wall late yesterday #UKBirding (best camera was smartphone I had with me)

Perfectly, large patch of Sweet Violet (Viola Odorata) in #SurreyHills this week #WildFlowerHour

A well-known area of Norbury Park in Surrey has a youngish Beech plantation known for its curated native Primroses. None at all showing except for a small patch of fully-out Eliator Hybrids. But are they guerilla-planted impostors or "real" False Oxlip impostors? #WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID

Our rescue snowdrops from the M25J10 improvement scheme are doing OK, but I feel the more specialist ones we have acquired over time struggle to ever open in the wet weather has the often large petals get drenched and are then too heavy to lift up and just rot ☹️ #WildfowerHour

Lots of crocuses around our poor Surrey soils, this one from "old Surrey", a Richmond cemetery for #WildflowerHour ... Has a somewhat Spencer'esque "Resurrection at Cookham" feel to it?

Only real bit of colour was the Gorse (again!) though matched by this Witches' Butter/Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) parasitising crust fungus and sometimes grows on decaying Gorse wood, as here, especially in wet winter weather, as now! #WildflowerHour

Apart from the odd but welcome banks of Snowdrops still enjoying seedheads (Teasel and Old Man's Beard/Clematis Vitalba) #wildflowerhour

Only noteworthy bloom last week as ice and snow gripped our area was the crystals on a sloping former window. I think due to some rain and frost cycles #wildflowerhour

Always the Gorse, whatever the weather, the only #WildflowerHour in the frozen garden. The rest are the winter colour (and smells) cultivars: Viburnum x bodnantense, Daphne bholua, Winter Jasmine, Iris and Japanese Quince.

Had hope for Juniper Top and Mickleham Down for #NYPlantHunt but all too Alpine at the moment #WildflowerHour

Far too late for #WildflowerHour but ... Was looking in the Blackthorn for Brown Hairstreak butterfly eggs and found one starting to bloom and then the elusive egg

Best hedgerows are rich in birds and their food: Rosehips, Wild Privet, Stinking Iris, abundant Blackthorn sloes #wildflowerhour

How much Lichen?

The brave flowers of our early November warmth sadly wilting in the frosts of late November #WildflowerHour

#Winter10 included an unusual (for Surrey) Centaury (Centaurium littorale) on newly accessible short-cropped sandy grassland, Holly, Autumn Hawkbit, Common Stork's-bill, Rhododendron(!), Pink and White Yarrow, Clustered Bellflower, an ocean of Periwinkle, Meadowsweet #wildflowerhour

Very surprised to see these (admittedly planted a few years ago now) beauties pop up in the garden late this afternoon, Snowdrops in early November?!?! Galanthus elwesii I think. #wildflowerhour

Always nice to have the Holly berries put to good use as the first Redwing return to the UK and our garden (how do they find it each year?) ... with a bonus Blackcap lurking. #wildflowerhour

Why are thistles so difficult? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID this tall scraggly one, in a somewhat damp area, with a lovely flowerhead may be a Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)

All the pinky purples for #WildFlowerHour from Denbies Hillside today: Clustered Bellflower, Knapweed,Self Heal, Marjoram, Scabious and Harebell

South Downs Way had plenty of colour: always astonishing Chicory blue, White Campion, Burnet Rose, Field Sowthistle and Greater Knapweed #wildflowerhour

Parked in a Steyning municipal car park today, under a deliberately planted pear tree with abundant small round fruits. Can't be a Plymouth Pear (Pyrus Cordata) surely? Brought some "samples" home for later tasting. #wildflowerhour #wildflowerid

Keep seeing #Caterpillars #Moths on paths. Why so much moving about in the open at the moment? Or just lucky spotting them? Two intriguing beauties: Fox Moth and Pale Tussock #WildWebsWednesday

Orchid seed heads in abundance on Mickleham Down escarpments, Birdsnest and Broad-leaved Helleborine #wildflowerhour

Clustered Bellflower, now in a range of colours #wildflowerhour

It's not exactly a bloom but blooming gorgeous, invasive escapee on a local river bank, but incredible too, Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) #wildflowerhour

Nice find on edge of a paddock near Guildford was some Field Bugloss (Anchusa arvensis) #WildflowerHour

Super bloom of Persicaria maculosa in the base of a currently dried-up pond #wildflowerhour

Chilterns walk from Bledlow revealed the superb material for #wildflowerhour especially on Lodge Hill, awash with huge clumps of #Eyebright #Scabious and views!

Autumn #Gentians only just got going at Yoesden in the Chilterns earlier last week #wildflowerhour

Nine Nightshade family members from #Cambridge and #Suffolk: Woody, Black, Green, Small, Deadly & Tall Nightshades, …plus Thorn Apple, Henbane & Duke of Argyll's Tea Plant. Scientific names in ALT. #WildflowerHour #Fruits

Ok, I know it's not native and is at Kew Gardens, but the rose hips on these Rosa Roxburghii, are as big as chestnuts, one of their common names #wildflowerhour