Alison Fure

Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested

Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested

We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

#Hadrianswall walk

Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling
Will be huge this year

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery

Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour

Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic
#wildflowerhour

After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library

Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.

One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library

Bird’s foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
#Kingstoncemetery
#wildflowerhour

Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour

No indeed

Definitely not carrot and although it doesn’t show much of an the vegetative growth, the flower is very like H.W.D which is very common along the river especially the Richmond side

Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty Thames Water must pay a £104.5m penalty for sewage breaches and £18.2m relating to shareholder dividends.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hawthorn flowers.

“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.

Wild Justice starts legal proceedings against Government’s controversial Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament […]

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Smell the freshness of this Chicken of the Woods on #HamLands

Masses of Elm samaras, like snow on the ground #wildflowerhour
#Hamlands

I have spoken to them. It doesn’t matter who cuts the grass, its symptomatic of false expectations as we are duped by greenwashing. Did anyone challenge the portfolio holder for the environment when he said 93% of trees planted by the council survive?

#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay

Elm seeds or samaras completely cover the ground, on #Hamlands

I knew they were there but had never been able to find them till now! So there was great excitement (amongst myself) as I finally located some Adder's-tongue fern, Ophioglossum vulgatum, on Mitcham Common at the weekend. @mitchamcommonf.bsky.social

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#AllertonOak a Sessile Oak chosen as #treeoftheyear 2019 in Calderstones Park for #thicktrunktuesday

Flower of Lords-and-ladies backlit by the sun

The flower of Lords-and-ladies looking particularly beautiful backlit by the early morning sun. Taken just after sunrise on May Day morning in Thorpe Wood NR

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildlifebcn.org