Phoebe

Green crested pinnules of a Royal fern

Green pinnules and brown spent sporangia of Royal fern

Osmunda regalis 'Cristata' (Crested Royal Fern) still looking very green in the protected cloisters of Chester Cathedral #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

A tree clothed in the Filmy-fern Hymenophyllum tunbrigense at Ceunant Llennyrch NNR. Transported for a moment to the Macaronesian laurissilva. We can only imagine what virgin temperate rainforest looked like in the Welsh uplands now - perhaps this was a more common sight @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sounds delicious, thank you for sharing your recipe 😃

Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.

URGE YOUR MP to keep Amendment 40 in the Bill The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to return to the House of Commons this week (week commencing 10 Nov). There is an opportunity to limit the damage the Bill will have but we need everyone to...

NOTE: Lords amendment 130 is now amendment 40 in the Commons. It is vital this amendment is passed. If you have already contacted your MP, please do let them know of the change of name. If you haven't, please use our easy to use webpage to contact them today act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...

URGE YOUR MP to keep Amendment 40 in the Bill The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to return to the House of Commons this week (week commencing 10 Nov). There is an opportunity to limit the damage the Bill will have but we need everyone to...

The Housing Secretary has tabled a motion to reject @houseoflords.parliament.uk Amendment 40 (formerly Amendment 130). It is troubling that the Government continues to reject an amendment that is based on scientific evidence and would safeguard our local nature. act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...

Five students with their Plant Heritage award in fron of their University fern garden.

A student explaining the contents of a Wardian case to visitors.

A great morning at Edge Hill University yesterday; students receive their Plant Heritage National Collection status for their collection of native and naturalised ferns. (Nice to see some of my plants on display too). Nice to see a young thriving plant horticulture group. #BritishFernSociety

This is URGENT and so important. Please do email your MP this weekend 👇🙏

Fast becoming that time of the year here when our house becomes a greenhouse for the winter too 😄
Love the window 😍

Collage showing alder trees and catkins. Left: vintage illustration of the Alder Fairy from Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies of the Trees, depicting a winged child hanging from an alder branch with green and brown cones. Right: two close-up photos of alder branches with purple catkins and woody cones against a soft brown background.

“By the lake or river-side
Where the Alders dwell,
In the Autumn may be spied
Baby catkins; cones beside -
Old and new as well.
Seasons come and seasons go;
That's the tale they tell!”

Illustration & words from The Song of the Alder Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker. #FolkloreThursday #poetry #nature

Morning! It's Thursday, don't forget the MOT!😊🚘

That's great to hear, long may it continue!

For #FernFriday, here’s one of our most beautiful native ferns - Southern Polypody (Polypodium cambricum). Found this colony on the warm, south-facing limestone cliffs of Y Gogarth (Great Orme) above Llandudno, under a canopy of Whitebeam, Turkey Oak and Strawberry Tree @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Couldn't resist a later season visit to see the North East's only remaining population of Forked Spleenwort (Asplenium septentrionale). #ferns

Something to look forward to, I shall enjoy seeing your garden projects too 😁Your new trellis panels look very nice, same shade as our little summerhouse 😃

It's fantastic what you've achieved, the house is looking beautiful.

Great progress! 😃

If you have Google Assistant on your phone, you could try going to Google Assistant settings > Devices, check for any devices and remove any you don't recognise. You could maybe also try going to myactivity.google.com and search for “News” or “Kitchen Display” to see if a device requested the news.

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

With the UK losing protected natural space equivalent to 1,680 football pitches in the past 5 years, it's clear that we need nature to be front & centre of planning reforms🏡

This means doubling down on safeguards, with more places designated for nature recovery🏞️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another fresh Scarce Silver-lines from our S. Yorkshire garden last night. #TeamMoth @bcyorkshire.bsky.social

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Great news!! 😃

This is so exciting! I've been hoping for this for years! Please share share share so people know.

#Wildlife #RedSquirrel #Conservation #HabitatLoss #Michaelmas

Save this unique population of Red Squirrels from habitat loss as the Bryn Cadwgan energy park threatens their existence🐿️🌲

PLEASE SIGN BY 1 OCTOBER if you can, it only takes a minute and could really make a difference. 

action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/177721/...

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the @folger.edu opens their long-term and short-term fellowship scheme for 2026. Includes book in progress fellowships, artistic research fellowships, and public humanities fellowships www.folger.edu/research/the...

An open book with illuminations associated with the month of August and calendar of saints' days

Detail of book, showing illumination of grain being harvested with sickles and rolling green hills

Simon Bening, The Month of August, 1520-25. Manuscript, 140 x 104 mm (each), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Codices latini monacenses (Clm) 23638, fol. 10v and 11r

There are only so many fern enthusiasts willing to admit to it on here I guess 😂😁
If you want to find more ferny folk you could try searching the hashtag #FernFriday which is very popular.
I can highly recommend following @duckinwales.bsky.social & @rogerhorton.bsky.social

​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’: will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform? Campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor fears goal of requiring all new homes in England to include a hollow brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds may be dropped

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please do consider contacting your MP to support this. I emailed mine (without much hope) & they actually signed, very pleasantly surprised. #nature #wildlife #birds #swifts #UKPolitics