Speedwell in a hedge #Devon #WildflowerHour

My first entry for #Wildflowershow is this stunning swathe of Thrift, looking dazzling on Chesil Beach this week. Despite the appalling weather that day (a biting wind and heavy downpours of rain) these gorgeous flowers provided some much needed floral sunshine to a bleak day. 🌸 #wildflowerhour

#WildFlowerShow right now in the evening sun as we currently walk/plod along an ancient drovers' road to Elsdon in Redesdale - cuckooflower, silverweed, crosswort #wildflowerhour

Hawkbit, Ox-eye Daisies (first photo) and Speedwell and Cow Parsley (second photo) in the churchyard of St Mary de Castro in Leicester city centre. #WildFlowerShow #Wildflowerhour

Cats at the Kitty Café in Nottingham two days ago. All are rescue cats. Humans aren't allowed to feed the cats - and food is kept covered. The cats' food is in a separate room. You are not allowed to move a cat to sit down...a rule cats made a long time ago! 😺 #caturday

A tiny bright blue Germander speedwell flowering under trees in Ely today. #WildflowerHour

Lots of Daisies. The second photo is of (Lesser?) Hop Trefoil, with a Daisy for scale. #wildflowerhour #tinyflowers #wildlflowerid

#Wildflowerhour For me one of the most overlooked usually only green leafed plant is great when flowering - a little colony of Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata). @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Road verges full of Cow Parsley look so beautiful at the moment 😁 #carrotsandpeas #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Daisies, White Dead Nettle, Speedwell, Jack-by-the Hedge, Goose Grass, Red Campion, Cow Parsley, Wood Avens, (Green Alkanet in the background). #WildflowerHour #CarrotsAndPeas

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

Was looking through some of my video game screenshots and came across this from #abzu by @giantsquidstudios.com. It's from the credits, some of the people in "Special Thanks". #DavidAttenborough

Bogbean today in a small moorland pool on the Sheep’s Head. #wildflowerhour

Pyramidal Orchid 🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️ Fowey -Polkerris, Cornwall #WildflowerHour

In Castle Gardens, Leicester: Red Valerian, Green Alkanet, and Parsley growing beneath a very much taller Horse Chestnut. #WildFlowerHour

Buttercups at Leicester Castle, by the Great Hall. In the background a Mistle Thrush was looking for food on the lawn. #ButtercupChallenge #WildFlowerHour

Greater Stitchwort and Bluebells in Burroughs Wood near Ratby, Leicestershire. #WildFlowerHour

Yellow Archangel and bluebells Blow Down, #Bedfordshire 💛💙💛 #SundayYellow #WildFlowerHour

Bluebells in Stanmer Park, Brighton #wildflowerhour

City centre flowers growing in cracks in the pavement. Mustard? (has four petals), Common Whitlowgrass, Saxifrage (I think...), Groundsel, Dandelion, Meadow Grass. #WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID #CabbageChallenge

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder was born #OnThisDay in 1868. Though her work changed our understanding of the Sun, she had to battle to overcome prejudice against women, including losing her astronomy job due to rules against married women working. #WomenInSTEM

One of my favourite woodland plants, Yellow Archangel, Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp montanum. 💛 #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

Churchyard of Leicester Cathedral earlier this week. Red Valerian, extreme left, Green Alkanet, Dandelion, extreme right, much the same as my post last Sunday. Joined by Wood Avens, a small yellow dot where the long thin shadow crosses the Green Alkanet. #WildflowerHour

Cowslip starting to bloom in cattle pasture on the #KentDowns, on Good Friday. #wildflowerhour #CowslipChallenge #KentNature

Cowslips on the North Downs in Kent #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#WildflowerHour Dandelions appearing more now providing valuable nectar and pollen for early pollinators...

#WildflowerHour #CowslipChallenge More coastal cowslips these ones growing near some gorse which is flowering now too...

It was a #CowslipChallenge. Only one place I can remember seeing Cowslips locally, not been there for a while. Longer walk than usual, but they were there! Different place: Green Alkanet, Red Valerian & Dandelions by Leicester Cathedral. (2 photos, because none had all 3 in focus.) #Wildflowerhour

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

I found some Green Alkanet this week #WildflowerHour

A whole frame full of wildflowers for #wildflowerhour: dandelions, red dead-nettle, speedwell, shepherd’s purse, common chickweed and hairy bittercress. Yesterday in a Gloucestershire field.

Feral Daffodils just about hanging on in Norfolk #Wildflowerhour names on pics. Seasonal wildlife for scale.

For #Wildflowerhour #treeflowers willow (pussy willow salix caprea) aren’t they fabulous catkins

Blackthorn trees next to the River Soar, Castle Gardens, Leicester. #WildflowerHour #treeflowers

Looked up Groundsel in some old books. Found Gerard's Herbal, 1633, which lists medicinal uses (link in alt text). The Goldfinch, which eats it, is in Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds, 1797. #storyplants #wildflowerhour

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment The Fumitory here trying to outpink the Dead-Nettle.

Green Alkanet, Chickweed, Blackthorn, Forsythia, ???, Daisy, Laurel, Speedwell, Dandelion, Flowering Currant, Red Dead Nettle, ???, ???, Mahonia, Groundsel, Anemone. Don't know the names of 3 small white flowers. Would like #WildflowerID #WildflowerHour

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Colt’s-foot (Tussilago farfara) flowers near Neville’s Cross, Durham last Tuesday. #SignsOfSpring #wildflowerhour

"Look at me, I've got 14 petals!" There is always one show-off ...... 🙄 Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Many primroses this week lining the banks of the Monarch’s Way in Gloucestershire. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour

A mighty dandelion in a Gloucestershire field this week. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour

Catkins, Wood Avens, White Dead Nettle, Chickweed, Red Dead Nettle, Groundsel. #WildflowerHour

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent

Moonrise and sunset from the top of the Motte (what's left of it!) at Leicester Castle this evening.

This week in Gloucestershire: the snowdrops are fading, but the celandines steal the show. #wildflowerhour

Euphorbia with raindrops. #WildFlowerHour

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