@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.