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The natural world. Wiltshire, Kent and sometimes SW France.
Pleased to come across Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum, in flower, transitional and in fruit. The Walk, Lower Woods, Gloucestershire. For @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @gloswildlife.bsky.social
03.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No bells for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social but lovely blue of Sea Holly at Sandwich Bay with attendant Broomrape now crispy brown Orobanche minor var. psuedoamethystea @bsbibotany.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
20.07.2025 18:36 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic. Well done! I remember similar in Picos de Europa years ago.
20.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seaside Specials from Seasalter Kent. Hogs Fennel, Salsify, Dittander and Frosted Orache.
20.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Snap, in Purbeck recently.
08.07.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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All from Purbeck recently. Yellow form of Stinking Iris, Wild Parsnip with attendant Red Soldier Beetles and Ivy Broomrape, all looking good and a pleasure to see. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Viburnum opulus, Guelder-rose, what a beauty! In hedgerows now. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
19.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
A good stand of pink-flowered Bugle, Ajuga replans, along with the normal blue for comparison, in open woodland N.Wilts. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
17.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A selection of Green-winged Orchids, Orchis morio, showing colour variation from two sites in North Wiltshire recently. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social
15.05.2025 07:35 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The ethereal seed heads of Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara a couple of weeks ago. #firstseedheads
14.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not at all high up I fear for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social but lovely nonetheless at Clattinger Meadows this morning. Snake’s Head Fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris most specimens come and gone though. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
04.05.2025 18:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0perennis!!
30.04.2025 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Got off to a good start here in Swanage for a few days. This is in Townsend Reserve, Chalk Milkwort, Polygala calcarea, Early Spider Orchid, Ophrys sphegodes, with Daisy, Bellis perennial. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
30.04.2025 18:55 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Not exactly a tree for #treeflowers growing over a wayside wall for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social but totally irresistible.
13.04.2025 18:52 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Quercus and Fraxinus out together for #treeflowers @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social but the Ash has the edge, and we need a soak, after all this fine weather! @jeremyjem.bsky.social
13.04.2025 18:42 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Glad you found them.
13.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Went to see the small colony of Moschatel, Adoxa moschatellina, near home this week. Often known as Townhall Clock, now is the time to look for this charming flower and it helps to look for the distinctive leaves first. Scarce in N.Wilts. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
05.04.2025 18:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wow! The first bluebell for 2025! March 26th is just a tad early for our local woods in North Wiltshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
26.03.2025 19:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social this week a beautifully deep red edged flower of Stinking Hellebore, Helleborus foetidus in local woodland, North Wilts,
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Green Hellebore Helleborus viridis, the scarcer of the two British species, in North Wilts woodland today. Thanks to @thejemster.bsky.social for showing me.
15.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Very nice!
11.03.2025 18:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Moira.
11.03.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just emerging here in Charente Maritime, the delightful wild Grape Hyacinth, Muscari neglecting. Quite tiny and dark, soon they will be everywhere in grassy places, roadsides, unmown lawns, vineyards etc. @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social
11.03.2025 10:54 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0We've been the best of friends for almost a decade now, and he deservedly had a large following over on the bird site as a red-hot orchid hunter and all-round top botanist, but it seems not many folk here on here are aware of and following @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social. Shame that, as he's a top bloke!
07.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
Probably a garden escape in Marignac, Charente Maritime. Flowers like Wild Pansy V. Tricolour, leaves like Mountain Pansy, V. Lutea. So pretty whatever the case.
07.03.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nature Notes from Charente Maritime, SW France. European Tree Frog, Hyla arborea in the garden. A first for me. @arc-trust.bsky.social
06.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back in Southwest France for a visit. Great to see Pulmonaria longifolia Narrow-leaved Lungwort coming in to flower. Likes shady banks and woodland edges. Rare in UK in a few places in the south.
26.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Signs of spring on my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks) - dog's mercury in flower and green hellebores emerging.
08.01.2025 18:24 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Welcome!
09.01.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Clearing out a garden shed today I disturbed this beautiful Herald moth. Was able to put it back to complete its hibernation safely. North Wilts. @britishnatureguide.bsky.social
04.01.2025 18:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
