wildflowerhour

Winter may have felt nine months long this year, but the flowers and @wildflowerhour.bsky.social are telling us spring is winning after all.

We can't wait to see your #SignsOfSpring wildflower find this Sunday 8-9pm for the first #WildflowerHour weekly challenge of the year. Spring it on!

If you wish to record your spring finds here is the link naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org.uk/what-we-record…

Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Toothwort, Lathraea squamaria, flowering under an overstood Hazel coppice stool in an ancient wood pasture in north Dorset, yesterday. #wildflowerhour

The first day of meteorological spring & it seems the flowers have got the memo! It’s looking like spring out there! Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous photos & bringing joy to our Sunday evening. The weekly challenges are back this week - keep a lookout for the first one!!! ☺️

For Wildflower Hour —
Stepping into Spring —
a slow procession of early wildflowers,
each one answering the light.

Soundtrack: spring’s first dawn chorus.

#WildflowerHour
#SolacelnNature
#EarlySpring
#BritishWildflowers
#DawnChorus

Wood forget me not, musk stork's bill, Greater Periwinkle, red dead nettle, common Field Speedwell, red Clover

My final 6 so of flower for this week (taking me to 25) added some lovely rich colours to my collection - the deep blue of the Wood Forget-me-not was quite stunning.

Really looking forward to next week's #wildflowerhour challenge.

#thewinter10

Collage of three flower photos. Clockwise from left: Cherry Plum, Willow flower, small Danish Scurvy Grass plant with flower

Definite signs of Spring for #wildflowerhour today 🙌 😍 Cherry Plum blossom, Willow flower and Danish Scurvy Grass.

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy, grass, leaf litter - in the bank of a hedgerow, Dartmoor, Devon

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy - bank of a hedge #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Three cornered leek, danish Scurvygrass, Blackthorn, daisy, cow parsley, common chickweed and shepherds purse

I also found 7 species of white flowering plants (out of my 25 for #thewinter10).

Loving the Blackthorn blossom particularly. And two clumps of Danish Scurvygrass - a healthy patch (top middle) looking lush, and a purple coloured plant growing on a wall (presumably under stress).

#wildflowerhour

With the mild weather, more and more flowers are popping up — like my first lesser celandine, dandelion, Primrose, Cornelian cherry, Fingered speedwell, and Wall speedwell.

Thanks to #WildflowerHour for this fab #TheWinter10 — I really enjoyed it! 😄

#wildflowerhour
Sweet!

Dandelion, Common Ragwort, Spotted Meddick, Smooth Sow-thistle, Lesser Celandine, Gorse, Groundsel ,Annual Mercury, Petty Spurge, Alexanders, Annual Meadow Grass.

As it's the last #thewinter10 I set myself an extra challenge...how many flowers I could find on my local 10 minute loop.

Turned out there has been an explosion of flowering, so my 10 minute walk took 25 minutes - with 25 species found!

Here are 12 yellow and green flowers for #wildflowerhour.

Lungwort (Pulmonaria officianalis) #wildflowerhour

A collage of early spring wildflowers photographed in soft natural light: purple periwinkle, bright yellow coltsfoot, pale primrose, white snowdrops, cherry blossom, a nodding yellow daffodil with raindrops, lilac Balkan anemone, vivid blue Siberian squill, delicate white hollowroot, and glossy yellow lesser celandine, all set against blurred green backgrounds.

“No summer flowers are half so sweet
As those of early Spring” — Old English saying

Periwinkle, coltsfoot, primrose, snowdrops, cherry blossom, daffodil, Balkan anemone, Siberian squill, hollowroot and lesser celandine — found for the final #TheWinter10. #WildflowerHour

Sweet Violet illuminated by winter sunlight against a backdrop of trees, shrubs and just visible below the tree lined horizon a lake.

A sunlit swathe of Sweet Violet making its way through urban Lincolnshire lakeside woodland. #WildflowerHour

The first decent looking Greater Stitchwort flower I've seen this year that has not been made scruffy by incessant rain. Mid Cornwall today (and yes, it was raining today on and off).
#wildflowerhour

Stellaria holostea

Spurge-laurel (Daphne laureola) out in full flower in woodland near me. Spurge-laurel is an early flowering species of neutral to basic woodland. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social #Wildflowerhour

A bright blue flower in grass, against a blurred green background.

A pretty Common field speedwell, West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

White Blackthorn flowers in a hedge in a Surrey village.

A Primrose in a grassy verge.

When the hedgerows begin turning white with Blackthorn flowers and Primroses pop up in the verges of English country lanes you know that Spring is here. #WildflowerHour
#Surrey

Ooooh fabulous!!!!!!

Crocus flowering between the field and the farm track, Roslin. A burst of purple and yellow in the leaf litter. #wildflowerhour

When the sun came out this week I thought I'd check in on one of the local colonies of Green Hellebore, the way I usually start the botanical year. #wildflowerhour

Common Storksbill starting to flower on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour

Lesser Celandine putting in an appearance today in Melksham, Wiltshire. Not in abundance yet, but good to see it back with a promise of spring. #wildflowerhour

One delightful Daisy flower head

First Speedwell of the season - a pale blue, small flower

On the last #TheWinter10 I got TEN! On #Rathlin #Island Shepherd's Purse, Scurvy Grass, Valerian, 3 Cornered Leek, Greater Periwinkle, Lesser Celandine, Herb Robert, Daisy, Speedwell, Blackthorn
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The first flower of Blackthorn with, left, a thorn with a bud at the base, and, right, a twig with tight clustered flower buds.
Trumpington Meadows #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
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Winter ten for St.David's day. All from the banks of the River Dee, in the old county of East Flintshire. #wildflowerhour #Wrecsam

Exquisite capture Jo!!!

Primrose, Primula vulgaris #wildflowerhour