No new flowers for #wildflowerhour on my walk at Streatley (W. Berks) today but took time to watch this early bee working around a daisy flower in the sunshine.
22.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 134 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
No new flowers for #wildflowerhour on my walk at Streatley (W. Berks) today but took time to watch this early bee working around a daisy flower in the sunshine.
22.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 134 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Enough bright sunshine yesterday to bring out the flowers of common whitlow grass (pic 1) and hairy bittercress (pic 2) at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
15.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 59 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Green Hellebore flowers yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
15.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 54 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Green hellebore (helleborus viridis) in early flower on the woodland floor, from a rather wet walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
08.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 72 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Lesser celandine (ficaria verna) in some welcome sunshine, from a walk at Streatley (W. Berks), 4th Feb 2026. #wildflowerhour
08.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 59 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A promise of spring - minute crimson styles peeking out from the buds of female hazel flowers like tiny sea anemones, from walks this week at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
01.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Spurge laurel, yellow-green blooms for the winter, from a walk this week at Streatley (W. Berks). Late for #wildflowerhour
04.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My finds this week from W. Berks & N. Hants for #thewinter10 - common field-speedwell, dandelion, bramble, red clover, common gorse, daisy, ploughman's spikenard, self-heal, shepherd's purse & wild parsnip. #wildflowerhour
23.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
From my walk this week around Ashford Hill Meadows (N. Hants), pics 2-11 providing this week's #thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour - groundsel, garlic mustard, red campion, white dead-nettle, water forget-me-not, betony, tormentil, common knapweed, nipplewort & herb robert.
16.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Wildflowers from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks) for #thewinter10: bush vetch, rough hawkbit (I think), long-stalked crane's-bill, marjoram, lesser hawkbit, harebell, smooth sowthistle, black horehound, blue fleabane & common centaury. Late for #wildflowerhour
09.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My selection for #thewinter10 this week from two downland walks - common milkwort, yarrow, wood avens, clustered bellflower, common toadflax, fairy flax, small scabious, greater knapweed, hogweed and common mouse-ear. #wildflowerhour
02.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 60 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
A small copper butterfly reluctant to move far on a chilly and breezy day, journeying simply fom a dandelion-type flower to a nearby stalk, seen last week at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #WildWebsWednesday
29.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Possibly the tachinid fly ectophasia crassipennis, feeding off yarrow, seen yesterday on Stockbridge Down (Hants), for #WildWebsWednesday
29.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From my walks at Streatley (W.Berks) this week, bush vetch, musk mallow and long-stalked cranes-bill. #wildflowerhour
26.10.2025 20:53 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Long-stalked crane's-bill and harebell from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
19.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Common milkwort in both blue and pink forms now reappearing at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks), 18/10/2025. #wildflowerhour
19.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Bastard toadflax (thesium humifusum), a single tiny bloom of clustered bellflower (campanula glomerata) and devil's-bit scabious (succisa pratensis) seen today at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
05.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Variations in pale toadflax, from my walk today at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour
28.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Some tiny autumn gentians spotted on a walk this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants). #wildflowerhour
21.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Some echoes of spring this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants) - germander speedwell and (assumed) sweet violets. #wildflowerhour
21.09.2025 19:42 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Common toadflax (linaria vulgaris) from a walk this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants). #wildflowerhour
21.09.2025 19:41 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's hard to pick a #FavouritePlant from all those seen in a season but it is one with a mainly western distribution seen on our holiday in Devon that stands out in my mind. It is navelwort, here growing on a stony bank facing the sea. #wildflowerhour
14.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 36 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Chiltern gentians this week at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks) for #wildflowerhour. Pictures 2 & 3 are of the same plant 2 days apart, the 1st showing the flowers largely closed in dullish, breezy conditions and the 2nd showing (some) flowers fully open in bright sunshine.
07.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 41 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Some #SeedHeads from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks) - teasel, carline thistle and wild carrot. #wildflowerhour
07.09.2025 19:55 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Autumn gentians have been scarce at The Holies (at Streatley, W. Berks) this year with none found for last week's gentian challenge, so pleasantly surprised this week to find even one of the related chiltern gentians. #wildflowerhour
31.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hawthorn berries, elderberries and acorns from my walks (N. Hants & W. Berks) this week for the #fruits challenge for #wildflowerhour.
31.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trifid bur-marigold (bidens tripartita) seen this week around the dried out main pond at Ashford Hill Meadows. #wildflowerhour
31.08.2025 19:56 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 02025 of course!
24.08.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nettle-leaved bellflower (campanula trachelium) at Warburg nature reserve, 24/8/2024. #wildflowerhour
24.08.2025 19:49 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour
24.08.2025 19:47 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0