Far right protest today: 29 - police officers injured 9 - protestors arrested Proscribed group protests: 0 - police officers injured 1,600 - protestors arrested We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

#Hadrianswall walk

Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling Will be huge this year

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery

Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour

Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic #wildflowerhour

After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library

Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.

One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus #Kingstoncemetery #wildflowerhour

Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery Found an #orchidchallenge for #wildflowerhour

“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.

Smell the freshness of this Chicken of the Woods on #HamLands

Masses of Elm samaras, like snow on the ground #wildflowerhour #Hamlands

#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay

Elm seeds or samaras completely cover the ground, on #Hamlands

I knew they were there but had never been able to find them till now! So there was great excitement (amongst myself) as I finally located some Adder's-tongue fern, Ophioglossum vulgatum, on Mitcham Common at the weekend. @mitchamcommonf.bsky.social

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#AllertonOak a Sessile Oak chosen as #treeoftheyear 2019 in Calderstones Park for #thicktrunktuesday

The flower of Lords-and-ladies looking particularly beautiful backlit by the early morning sun. Taken just after sunrise on May Day morning in Thorpe Wood NR #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildlifebcn.org

On the wall at Kingston’s new bus station #JillViner

Same Oak tree from different angles, showing extensive buttress roots for #thicktrunktuesday

May before May

Brimming with broom on Dartford Heath

Daisyface

#Elmtree #Cambridgeroad #Kingston

mellow yellow #Broom #Dartfordheath

A game of cricket from an apple tree’s perspective

Elm tree coming into leaf #Kingstoncemetery

#Earthwatch #waterblitz #Hogsmillriver

Curtains for light pollution. Exhaustion, increased predation, and a disrupted ability to navigate are just some of the reasons why up to a third of insects attracted to lights die.... www.buglife.org.uk/campaigns/li...

Last push 150 signatures needed

Yesterday it was a Little Tern, today a Quail, which could well revive. I put in a place of safety & will go back later to see #summermigrants #Turkiye

That time of year

Tortoise time in Turkiye

Everywhere is bone dry except for the leaf surfaces of the Balsam Poplars suckering along the banks of the #Hogsmill

#Willowwarbler singing outside the dump along the #Hogsmill this am

Up to 88,748 signatures. We need to get to 100,000 by 22nd May to be able to push for a debate in parliament...

Wood anemone Anemonoides nemorosa #Mottinghamwoods #woodlandplants #wildflowerhour

The Bears of Mottingham Woods

#fingerpostfriday A fast developing part of London where any of these PROW’s could change in the furure

question: why did the Greens vote for the Planning and Infrastructure bill?