Joni Cook

Kicking yourself that you didn't make it to #BIBConf25 yesterday?
Don't worry!
We recorded the talks for you & they'll be up on our YouTube channel very soon.
We also have some great online winter talks & webinars lined up for you in the coming months!
Check them out:
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Close-up of a pale yellow flower of Field Pansy (Viola arvensis).

Field Pansy in flower in an arable field margin, Leicestershire.

Field Pansy (Viola arvensis) in an arable field margin, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

Checked out our shiny new website yet?
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New to @bsbibotany.bsky.social or #WildFlowerID?
We think you'll find it easier than ever to access resources, hear about events & learn more about wild plants in your area.
Seasoned botanist?
All your fave pages are still there + lots of new stuff!

Grassland fungi are my favourite! Searching for them is like looking for treasure. The waxcaps come in an array of differing shapes and colours and every one is fascinating 🤩

A lovely day yesterday seeing some of my favourite waxcaps 🥰 It was wonderful to see them again even though some weren’t looking quite their best because of the recent dry weather. Also saw Earthy, Snowy, Slimy, Blackening, Golden & Pale. 17 waxcaps in a day is not bad!! #FungiFriday #MushroomMonday

I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.

Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??

See them all here:
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6 flowering native plants

Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week.
#WildflowerHour

Montage of photographs of yellow Catsear and Buttercup flowers, a Daisy and red Hawthorn berries.

Autumnal shades of Catsear, Buttercup, Daisy and Hawthorn berries. #WildflowerHour

Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Papery Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) always looks spectacular, even when it's gone over (hmm, it always looks a bit like it's gone over!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)

Red Campion (Silene dioica)

Wood Avens (Geum urbanum)

Lovely to spot Red Campion and Wood Avens flowering in the woods, providing an autumnal food source for pollinators. #wildflowerhour

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📢Speaker Announcement: CARGO Movement
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist

CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.

Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei

What wonderful news, and what a wonderful plant! Holly Fern is the best fern 😍

Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow, Sun 28th! Please share widely. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Castle Acre Castle ramparts. Ragwort & Common Calamint flowering in foreground. Rosebay Willowherb on castle mound.

On the castle walls.

Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.

Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.

#WildFlowerHour

Well done @ka7enj.bsky.social on finding Slender Tare, new for Leicestershire!
#WildFlowerHour

Close up of the flowers of Yarrow.

Purple flowerheads of Common Knapweed.

Hogweed in flower.

Yarrow, Common Knapweed and Hogweed still flowering this week along rural verges, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

It’s Sunday and it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild and naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland in the last week!

Great opportunity. Please share/repost with anyone with a botany, ecology or environmental science qualification!

#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name We use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service.

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?

✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
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It's widely distributed across Europe, Asia, & North America, where it grows in a variety of dry, open habitats including grasslands, heaths, and sand dunes 🌱

Beautiful!

Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in a local woodland #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant

The gorgeous blue bell-shaped flowers of Oysterplant are tinged pink in bud like the other members of the Borage family in which this most beautiful plant belongs.

I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour

Close up of a Harebell flower, with raindrops on the petals.

A cluster of Harebell in acid grassland, North West Leicestershire.

A highlight this year was these beautiful Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia L.) in acid grassland, a species in strong decline due to drivers such as habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour

Common Blue butterfly resting on heather against a dark pink background. Text overlay reads 'the results are in' with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo. Photo credit Matt Berry

The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...

2025 was an average year for butterflies.

See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

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The utterly ridiculous seed pods of Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, at Rye Harbour. One plant still had a flower tenaciously hanging on in there. #Wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube