Highlights of my wildflower year. #wildflowers #butterflies and my first transect.

Hoping this Germander Speedwell will still be around for my New Year Plant Hunt. #wildflowers

Some Red Dead Nettle #wildflowers

Wildflower Heaven #wildflowers #Daisies

#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.

Nibbled Sweet violet in the garden yesterday. 📷 #photography

#TheWinter10 for this week's #WildFlowerHour: Common Dog Violet, Red Campion; Carrot, Red Clover, Yarrow, Bristly Oxtongue; Ragwort, Black Nightshade, Shepherd's Purse & White Dead-nettle. Getting more difficult!

Squirrel Axis Mundi-map of the world, 5x3 3/4 original art The connection from here to there. A cosmic pillar•mountain•tree•earth•resourcefulness•adaptability

Late for #wildflowerhour found some White Dead Nettle in Wicklow Town.

Some Winter Heliotrope has started. Very sweet smelling in Wicklow Town. Late for #wildflowerhour

A bit late for #wildflowerhour Red and White valerian in Wicklow Town

Finally got myself kitted out with Clive Stace’s New Flora of the British Isles . Time for some serious wildflowering #wildflowers #wildflowerID

The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...

A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.

Found one Deadly Nightshade growing in the middle of a field #wildflowerhour

A pretty Sweet violet flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Pretty pink wildflowers Herb Robert and Bush Vetch #wildflowerhour

Nestling in the undergrowth found some pretty Barren Strawberry #wildflowerhour

Very yellow on the Duffery Lane near Hacketstown with Nipplewort and Ragwort in flower today #wildflowerhour

Some creeping thistle in flower today #wildflowerhour

#FlowerReport: A dewy dandelion in Gilroy, California this morning.

What a lovely find just now. A Small Copper on Yarrow. #butterfliesofIreland #ButterflyAtlas #butterflies #wildflowers #Carlow

Cyclamen flowering in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Sunday is #stunday First Light #eastCoastKin #Landscape #BigSky #BlueSky 1-william-hulbert.pixels.com/featured/fir...

Absolute beast of a female Northern Bullfinch this morning in Lerwick. #YellBirding #Shetland

Common knapweed in white. #wildflowerhour

#WildflowerHour from #Preston this week; ivy flowers seem to have had a resurgence, nipplewort, a fresh teasel, fox and cubs, hogweed, stunning herb Robert, viburnum and a common daisy. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

And some welcome yellow from the Gorse #wildflowerhour That’s it from me.

The little flowers of Lesser Stitchwort just hanging on #wildflowerhour

Some Bush Vetch still in flower and some Lesser Knapweed on the laneway #wildflowerhour

Thyme leaved Speedwell and a tired looking Red Clover for #wildflowerhour

Field pansy in the local pumpkin patch field - east central Scotland #wildflowerhour

Red Deadnettle and beautiful blue Germander Speedwell in my veg garden #wildflowerhour

Daisy in the autumn rains today for #WildflowerHour

Tiny flowers of Cleavers and Mouse Eared Chickweed #wildflowerhour

Some Fumitory and Honeysuckle and Yarrow in flower near Hacketstown #wildflowerhour

On a stony wall in Wicklow Town some Ivy Leaved Toadflax and Mexican Fleabane #wildflowerhour

Sunny yellow this week coming from Ragwort, Nipplewort and a Hypericum #wildflowerhour

Pretty in pink are the Herb Robert and Creeping Thistle in Flower up the lane #wildflowerhour

Today’s habitat management work in Walmer revealed some hidden gems, blooming sweet violets. #wildflowerhour

A late flowering Common Vetch on a road verge at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour Vicia sativa subsp segetalis

A roadside Fox and Cubs in flower at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour Pilosella aurantiacum

#Wildflowerhour from yesterday; hogweed, knot grass, thistles, ivy flowers & ivy bee, stinking iris seed pods, pink & white brambles, mallow, buttercup, herb Robert, wood avens & angelica. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #bloomscrolling #vitaminN

Saw this Strawberry Tree Arbutus unedo in flower in Waterford University campus #wildflowerhour

Red Campion is still flowering! #WildflowerHour

Golden yellow Dandelion #wildflowerhour

Hogweed and some Narrow leaved Plantain in Wicklow Town #wildflowerhour

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Fluffy and invasive Old Man’s Beard Clematis vitalba