Corn marigold and speedwell amongst the stubble by the #Pembrokeshire coastal path Porthgain #Wildflowerhour

Lots of Shaggy Soldier by the river today. Also Ivy flowers and Ragwort, away from the river. #WildflowerHour

Nick Davis, Reporting from Jamaica: "I'd like to dedicate this first live page dispatch to my cousin Andrew, who works for the power company, away from his girls, to make sure the infrastructure we need is in place when we need it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Common Hogweed in flower, North Yorkshire this weekend. #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia with a view. There are still quite a few in flower on limestone grasslands up here in South #Cumbria. Newbiggin Crags. #Wildflowerhour

Saw some cracking fungi this week for #wildfungihour I'm not very good at fungi ID, but these may be wood blewit (purple one) and shaggy parasol... #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Common Toadflax still flowering in #Devon hedgerow. #WildFlowerHour

Autumn sunshine, Great Mullein, and a Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) - a little #WildflowerHour golden moment this week.

Yarrow, Daisies and Black Nightshade growing in patch of grass between a main road and a retail park. #urbanflowers #WildflowerHour

Autumn colours 🍂 Marianne North was born #OnThisDay, read about the trailblazing artist 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/marianne-north-a-trailblazing-artist#OnThisDay There's over 1,000 of her works to explore on Art UK! 'Autumn Tints in the White Mountains' by Marianne North (1830–1890) 📷 Kew Gardens

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Daisy in the autumn rains today for #WildflowerHour

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

Primroses & Centaury flowering in Mayo. #wildflowerhour

Shaggy Soldier and Ragwort. #wildflowerhour

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

"They discovered how the immune system is kept in check." Also raising the profile of research into autoimmune diseases, when the check no longer works, with devastating consequences. #nobelprize www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

For #WildflowerHour this evening, Silverweed with a bonus 7-spot Ladybird.

Tutsan, The Metals, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour

Mallow flowers; thinking common mallow and thinking musk mallow #WildFlowerHour

Scentless Mayweed and Shaggy Soldier. #WildFlowerHour

Crocus nudiflorus (Autumn Crocus) spreading in Shrewsbury in the Quarry. There are more over towards Frankwell in more natural grassland but we were passing these in the week and they were looking splendid in the autumn sunshine. @janettem34.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Lots of Michaelmas daisies and the odd bee. #WildflowerHour

Sea rocket, Monreith Beach, Dumfries and Galloway #wildflowerhour

Common Toadflax that has colonised a driveway of an empty property. #wildflowerhour

Rosehips and dried Teasel on a patch of wasteland in an industrial estate. #wildflowerhour

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

Ragwort providing for these Small coppers this week in Donegal. #wildflowerhour

Dovefoot cranesbill 🌱📷 #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReporr #UKWildflowers

Autumn crocuses in Castle Gardens, Leicester. (Posting early, because won't be able to post between 8 and 9 pm.) #wildflowerhour

So hard to chose my #FavouritePlant for this week! Here: Knapweed #BytheSea was truly wonderful #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botanybeck.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #wildflower #flower #VitaminN #Rathlin

Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour

#favouriteplant #wildflowerhour Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.

My current #FavouritePlant is the Scarlet Pimpernel that has found its way into the gravel bed at the end of our front garden path #WildflowerHour

Traveller's Joy in All Saints churchyard, Leicester, earlier this week. #wildflowerhour

It was great to be able to visit a bluebell wood this year. Last year the weather was too wet! Bluebell, Celandine, Wood Anemone and Yellow Archangel, 20 April, 2025. Hard to choose a #favouriteplant, but I think I'll go for the Wood Anemone or Windflower. #wildflowerhour

Intrigued to find that 'Redox', in the paper about 'potential biosignatures' on Mars, dates from 1928. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Michaelis, L.; Flexner, Louis B. (1928). "Oxidation-reduction systems of biological significance". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 79. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

My new book of cartoons is out soon. I am bringing it to SPX/BETHESDA TORONTO, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY in the next two weeks. Visit www.tomgauld.com for more details and preorder links!

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.

Teasel 🌱 #Wildflowerhour #Seedheads #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling

Water Forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpiodies, in the ditches of Wareham Common #wildflowerhour

Rosebay Willowherb in Castle Gardens, Leicester. #Wildflowerhour

Clinically Vulnerable people will be denied Covid vaccines this autumn despite continued risks. The UK is cutting back and is an international outlier. Please support our petition! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I attempted a 🌈 of #Fruits for this week's #WildFlowerHour challenge 🙂 I'm not 100% sure they're technically all "wild", but I needed the colours... 😅 Names in ALT text.

Crab apples and Hawthorn berries in Leicestershire today for #wildflowerhour #fruits challenge.

Dried fruits: Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus, with its funky beaded fruits on The Lizard, Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour #fruits

Sow thistle by the multi story #WildFlowerHour #pavementplants