#butterflyweek we saw lots of lovely butterflies on the Isle of Iona last week. Including male and female common blue. #iona #commonblue #isleofiona

Two new to us plants this weekend that fit with @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge. #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour the delicate pink of bog pimpernel on Iona and brookweed, a bit of rarity on Staffa. Also beautiful water lilies and bog asphodel on Mull.

@ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social my other half found a conjoined common spotted orchid today at Bamff Rewilding Estate in Alyth. Fasciation I think. I guess it’s not very common. #orchids #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerID. We saw this flower on the coastal path in the East Neuk of Fife today. Dandelion family of some sort. Rosette leaves with serration. And very thick, hard stems. Not sure what it is. #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour. No invasive species for us this week. But trips to Ardnamurchan on the far west of Scotland and the East Neuk of Fife. We did see lots of amazing plants. Frog orchid. Early marsh orchid, lesser butterfly and more @bsbibotany.bsky.social @orchids

Wildflower wanders at Ruddon Point in Fife today. With BSBI Fife group. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour highlights were the frog orchids but a really interesting site. Field madder, knotted clover, meadow rue, thyme leaved sandwort and more.

#wildflowerhour #pollinatorpals Found a lovely common blue on an oxeye daisy. And some lovely other plants out and about near Dundee this week. Scarlet pimpernel, sun spurge and corn spurry @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

We found out first ever lesser twayblade this weekend on the Cairnwell. Amazing we found it. It was 3cm tall. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

We went to visit a SSSI today to look for orchids. I found something I can’t identify. It was a fen/bog area and this wee ‘head’ was growing out of sphagnum moss next to sundew. About 3cm tall. Top looks like a horsetail but with tiny wee flowers. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #plantid #wildflowerhour

Off to Little Ballo for a spot of #livingthe5to9 and some orchid hunting. One place we can see early marsh orchids, Heath spotted and hybrids. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #ukorchids #orchids

The meadows of Teesdale are the biggest #lawnflowers and just glorious. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #lawnflowers we don’t have much of a garden so count the countryside round about as our garden. Today it was the dune slacks at Tentsmuir. Orchids (late for last week?), centaury, buttercups and more.

A little late with these orchids for #orchidchallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social but heading home from Teesdale we visited some sites in Northumbria. At one in particular the orchids were stunning. #orchids

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social first orchids of the year on a botanical visit to Teeadale. Early purple, northern marsh, common spotted and twayblades. #orchidchallenge #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour #wildflowershow it’s been a glorious couple of days. Pink and yellow and white everywhere. But my absolute favourite today was capturing a #hummingbirdhawkmoth on the east coast of Fife. With a red campion.

#wildflowerhour #WildflowerShow a walk along the Fife coastal path near Crail today. It never disappoints. Highlights included marsh arrow grass and sea milkwort.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #wildflowershow lots of colour. But today. Mostly pink. Ragged Robin. Sea Thrift and a little birds foot trefoil.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social this week’s #tinyplants and #tinyflowers from the beach at Tentsmuir (early forget-me-not) to the top of the Cairngorm plateau at 3000 feet. Diminutive marsh marigolds and creeping azalea.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social up in Corrie Fee in the Angus Glens today. The only #carrotsandpeas that we saw in flower was broom. But lots of other lovely flowers. Including carpets of wood anemone high on the hill. #wildflowerhour

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #woodlandplants volunteering at Killiecrankie, removing non native species allowed me to see a few woodland flowers. Followed by a walk at Tentsmuir Woods today. First violets, primroses and cowslips of the year.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Found my first wood anemone of the year today in Anagach woods. A small remnant of the Caledonian Pine Forest. The anemones are indicators of ancient woodland. They only spread about 6ft in 100 years. #storyplants #wildflowerhour

First @wildflowerhour.bsky.social of the year for me. It’s been all about the daisies, dandelions and gorse until now. Blossom starting. Celandines. And pussy willow in south west Scotland this weekend. #wildflowerhour

Atmospheric view from the Garry Bridge near Pitlochry today. #scotland #killiecrankie

Fungi fantastic this weekend. The colours of autumn. #fungi #autumn

#wildflowerhour. Some of our #favouriteplants of the year. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social Wild onion on the river Carron. Squill on Iona. A first for us. Birds Eye primrose. Part of the Teesdale Assemblage. And Glenshee Globeflower with a view. A first for us in Glenshee.

#favouriteplant of the year for @wildflowerhour. Gosh. We had a few. It was a great botany year. So many lovely plants and some firsts for us. And for some locations. We found narrow leaved helleborine near Oban. A first for the location. #wildflowerhour

#favouriteplants of the year for @wildflowerhour. Gosh. We had a few. It was a great botany year. So many lovely plants and some firsts for us. And for some locations. This post is the lovely mountain avens. Seen both on Glenshee and in the Teesdale exclosures.. #wildflowerhour

#favouriteplant of the year for @wildflowerhour. Gosh. We had a few. It was a great botany year. So many lovely plants and some firsts for us. And for some locations. First post coralroot orchids. Tiny wee green things hard to see. #wildflowerhour

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social I have gone with the fruit and otherwise of the oak tree this week. Galls galore. Not exactly fruits but definitely autumnal. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #fruits Knopper gall, oak apple, Artichoke gall and of course an acorn.

Beautiful butterflies around Dundee and Fife this weekend. Including wall browns. Never seen before and now twice in one weekend. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social #butterfly #butterflies #scottishwildlife

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social the first time I saw broad leaves helleborines was just a couple of years ago. They are amazing. So many different colours to be found. #wildflowerhour #HelleborineChallenge

Went to Teesdale this week and found some amazing plants. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour The Teesdale Assemblage didn’t disappoint despite missing the spring gentians. Hoary whitlow grass, hoary rock rose, mountain avens and shrubby cinquefoil.

Yesterday’s botanical treasure hunt saw us finding our first coralroot orchids. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social the little blighters are hard to photograph. 😀😀

#wildflowerhour #peafamily. I love the pea family. Peas are my favourite vegetable. But the flowers are also stunning. Bitter vetch (I think) with its colour shifting is a favourite.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social for this week’s #orchidchallenge for #wildflowerhour we found our first fragrant orchids of the year and lots of Heath spotted and an northern marsh. But the stars of the show were narrow leaved helleborine in a never before recorded site. Oban and Mull.

Puffins on the magical Lunga. #puffins #treshnish #nts

Random botanising near Oban and we came across our first ever narrow leaved helleborine. And then the next day we saw more in Mull. Nationally rare. Beautiful. #wildflowerhour #orchidsofbritain @ukorchids.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social no pinks apart from campion this week so a few alpines from Glenshee today. Our first time getting dryas octopetela in flower. Azalea. Drawf cornel. An other first. And favourite Scottish asphodel #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour a non speedwell post for @wildflowerhour. First orchid of the year and a clustered bellflower at the northern edge of their reach. St Cyrus National Nature Reserve

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social we saw so many Germander speedwell at St Cyrus today. And thyme leaved speedwell. But a rarity from a couple of June’s back. Rock speedwell. On the cliffs of Ben Lawers. A rarity for Scotland. #speedwell #wildflowerhour

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social a wee run in the woods today and I came across my first violet and wood anemone of the season. #woodlandplants and yesterday’s walk along the canal at #thekelpies found lady’s smock and cowslip.