New favourite sedge!

Got a rare gig this weekend!

Hot news is we've got percussion legend Pete Flood joining us for our London Launch 1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens Hope you can come. TICKETS... worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...

Proliferodiscus pulveraceus and Stictis radiata. And what they look like from afar. I love the way that a few spots on a twig can become a wildly colourful world when you look at it under a hand lens. Essentially (and stupid as it sounds) it’s my prescription for the blues, every time.

sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant

Nothing beats a glossy emerald drift of Stream Water-crowfoot- back in this stretch of the River Arle in quantity after decades of scarcity

A curl of Water Figwort in bloom - a late addition to the #NewYearPlantHunt list

Straggly tufa-encrusted Cratoneuron filicinum from the banks of the Itchen at Winchester while waiting for a mot. Common name is Fern-leaved Hook-moss but this form was more Hookless Drab-mo. Stout nerve (pic 2), big auricles on branch leaves (2), rhizoids (3) and paraphyllia (4) give the game away

Walked the perimeter of Alresford today and found 44 species for the #NewYearPlantHunt Most surprising: Water Avens Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year) Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)

Thousands of plants of Jersey Cudweed lining a road verge near Southampton Water. I guess it’s the botanical equivalent of a £100,000,000 bat tunnel: joke ecology, wasting everyone’s time and driving disaffection with conservation across the board. Hoping NE delist it asap

Out looking at Spartina meadows on the edge of Southampton Water yday. Loving all the ergotic Common Cord-grass - but the bright orange rust on the ergot sclerotia is new to me - anyone got a name for this peculiar thing?

Dingy green 1mm ‘tongues’ growing with the liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina on Willow bark in wet woodland. Grazed/old slime mould sporocarps, right? Right??? If so, which species/genera have multiple stems that coalesce halfway up? In the books I have most species have a discoid hypothallus instead

Breathing opportunity

Penultimate day. SPORTS CLUB with @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social and @floodenheim.bsky.social 🥰

At the end of busy week I’m reflecting on the highly partial coverage devoted by the media to different issues. Massive coverage this week on a farm demo, but a far larger demonstration on Nature in June got hardly anything. Both about land. Why might that be? amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LIVE STREAM TONIGHT! See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉 Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live

Yes but WHAT IS THAT FLYING SPIKY FRUIT?!?!

Have wonderful memories of you all when Bellowhead first started out. That night at Whitchurch Folk Club North Shropshire when Pete Flood was setting his windup mechanical toys loose on the small stage & you said all us clapping along should dance & thus a big conga round the small hall happened. :)

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

Sheffield station, waiting for Dionne. Initially far more drawn to the vacant lot than the water feature but - Bryum pseudotriquetrum/ old hand lens in pocket - hours of fun

An extremely lovely review: www.bristol247.com/culture/musi... To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)

Initiating proceedings here with a pic of some moss on pony dung. Not sure if it’s a comment on 2024, Twitter, or just finding gorgeousness in unexpected places, but here’s the wonderful, holly-leaved Splachnum ampullaceum