White bryony in Ely today. #ClimbingPlants #WildflowerHour

A month ago I was immersed in Bog Asphodel as the sun was setting with Nightjars churring away. Very magical. Always love seeing Bog Asphodel - gorgeous glowing yellow stars with fab orange anthers atop crazily fluffy filaments (they remind me of school art-project pipe cleaners!) #wildflowerhour

A very impressive thing and one of my faves ❤️

Very happy to finally see Knotted Pearlwort (Sagina nodosa), growing with Bog Pimpernel at Braunton Burrows 🩷🤍 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Ynyslas is amazing ❤️ Orchids galore.... pyramidal, early marsh, marsh helleborine and southern marsh #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Grotty Himalayan Balsam by the River Wye. It was a massive patch 😡 #Wildflowerhour #invasiveplants @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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It’s #InvasiveSpeciesWeek & for the #WildflowerHour challenge we are focusing on those non-native naturalised plants that are proving problematic! Find one in bloom & share you pics this Sunday using the hashtag #InvasivePlants. Read more here bsbi.org/blog/2026/06/i…

Greater Yellow Rattle #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

My #pollinatorpals wouldn't keep still on this bush vetch 🤣 #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Crested Cow-wheat, Sulphur Clover and Pyramidal Orchids decorating some Cambridgeshire road verges yesterday

Common Spotted x Frog Orchid hybrid (Dactylorhiza x mixtum) at Morgan's Hill, Wiltshire. #Nature #Wildlife #Orchid #Wildflower #Flower #WildflowerHour #Plant #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

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Bird's-foot, Ornithopus perpusillus, on the heath this morning #wildflowerhour

This will deffo be one to buy

Very very late for #Wildflowerhour as I've had a rare night out 🤣 Mexican Fleabane and Spear Thistle from this week's travels @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Field Cow-wheat Melampyrum arvense in Hampshire. A beautiful and utterly mad thing #wildflowerhour

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A fun day out today 😁

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Hornbeam and London Plane at the Weir Garden.

Whoever does the bouquets @nationaltrust.org.uk Weir garden Hereford needs some kind of award... 😍

Seaside bouquet for #WildflowerHour Yellow Horned-poppy and Hair’s-Tail at #RSPBDungeness.

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I’ve been out surveying Welsh Groundsel (Senecio cambrensis) this week for @speciesrecovery.bsky.social Glad to report numbers are well up on last year (when the spring drought killed many plants). This site had 69 plants compared to just 20 last year #wildflowerhour

Found a few things this week... orange hawkweed and monkeyflower, elderflower, dog rose #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Thanks to @sylvatica2024.bsky.social I have learnt something new. Resupination is the process by which flowers rotate in the bud. Occurs in 14 different families and aids the landing of pollinators on the labellum. Well I never…. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Every day is a new adventure...

🌳 Identifying Whitebeams Join @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social on 29th Sep to learn ID skills for UK & Ireland whitebeams, rowans & service trees. Covering native, endemic & non-native species, habitats, ancestry & conservation 🌎 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980367894... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Have you been taking part in #NoMowMay or opting for a #NoMowSummer? The challenge this week is to show us your #LawnFlowers! No lawn? See what’s blooming in another local grassed area instead. Share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower hunting! 🌸🌾🌼

Nice article in today's @theguardian.com about native wildlife on banknotes www.theguardian.com/business/202... But oh dear @bankofengland.bsky.social, why isn't there a single native plant under consideration? A few suggestions for you below + a £20 note mocked up by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social!

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Sociable Hawkweed.... what a brill common name 😁

My new fave - marsh cinquefoil. What a big burgundy beauty! #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Saved by the bell! Found some heath spotted this evening #Wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The first Bog Asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum, in flower that I've met this year, yesterday in a mire on the Purbecks #WildflowerHour

Been working constantly this week so not much chance to botanise. On my one day off I did get thrifty in Aber though 😉 early for #Wildflowerhour just in case I miss it @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Does anyone recommend a good foot spa. My poor tootsies have had enough this week.

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Researchers placed guinea fowl into tick-infested areas and found that they significantly reduced the adult tick population With increase spread of Lyme Disease from Ticks Guinea fowl are a natural answer to combat Ticks and Lyme disease www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

Urban botany this week too... valerian and toadflax #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

York Groundsel Senecio eboracensis is now throughout the city centre, its largest ever range. Might it make a full comeback despite the best efforts of the weedkiller brigade? #Wildflowerhour

A memorable week of botanising in incredible places. The Snowdon Lily (Gagea serotina) really stands out though. Seeing them perfectly in flower is always such a joy #wildflowerhour

Forked spleenwort and friends #Wildflowerhour #Wildflowershow @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Wood bitter-vetch, milkwort, tormentil, ribwort plantain etc #Wildflowerhour ##Wildflowershow @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A selection of lovely limestone #ferns from today's jaunt to Great Asby Scar - a rather long drive but worth it! 📸 Hart's-tongue, Rigid Buckler-fern, Green Spleenwort & Limestone Fern

I said "totes emosh" at work today and all the teenagers thought it was hilarious. Then I was called a cute little bean. I feel old now.

Wow 😍 English Whitebeam