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You’re not urban enough Jeremy!

Sounds a good number to me!

Fabulous! How many flowering, Alex?

Twelve for #theWinter10 Spurges Sun, Petty and Balkan, Red Deadnettle, Greater Periwinkle, Primrose, Daisy & Yarrow, Wood Avens, Stinking Hellebore, Blue Fleabane (!) and Danish Scurvygrass, all from west Wiltshire for #WildflowerHour

Chapter 9 of This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson begins with Darwin striding up Wyle Cop in #Shrewsbury - his birthplace and mine. Brilliant book.

I just hope they’re building something useful!

They finally got round to developing the site - no big news story, just sad because in its overgrown state it was gorgeous. Probably an eyesore to many though!

#WednesdayWasteland this week (top) and what it was like 18 months ago 😢

Thanks Alex - that fits perfectly. The grooved leaves weren’t really apparent at the time but looking at the photo I did wonder about a plicatus element.

That Bidens! 🥰🥰🥰

No, Miss 🫢

Ahoy #galanthophiles @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @ghostofdatura.bsky.social this dumped plant has the elwesii wrap-around base but is enormous - man’s hand for scale! Any ID suggestions please?

Thank you for the website, Moira. I didn’t have the Spring book as a child. 🥲

Just gorgeous!

A mostly wet #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour Winter Heliotrope, Fumitory (probably Common), Hazel, Red Deadnettle & Sun Spurge, then Snowdrops (nice and simple , none of the yellow nonsense 😄), Sweet Violet, Lesser Celandine, Lungwort and Bilbao’s Fleabane.

What a fabulous field of sunshine!

Three of the highlights from today’s monad recording-lite in Chippenham. Naturalised Cyclamen coum, a dozen or so Bee Orchid rosettes, and Veronica agrestis. We also found a county first but it’s not very photogenic. Smells good though. 😊🤐

OK - yes, I get that! Thanks.

Looking great! Which publisher are you using, please, James?

Maidenhair Fern Adiantum capillus -veneris at its well-known site in Bath, curtaining one end of a canal tunnel, but now spreading to the outside wall at the other end and even to the wall of a nearby railway cutting. #FernFriday #FridayFerns #ahashtagwithFernsinit

Reluctantly, try relocation.

Thanks Alex.

Bluesky is where I come to avoid news 🙂

‘might be doomed’ is too vague I think - what’s the particular threat?

Another BBC story with an unsuitable headline image. This story on venomous snakes is headlines by an image of what appears to be an Oriental Rat Snake - a non-venomous snake!

It's been corrected now, but it still shows the absolutely dire state of journalism when it relates to natural history.

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The discard I rescued from the communal green bin now flowering after 2 years.

Also inclined to drop like a Lily Beetle if you touch them!

😊Thanks Rebecca!