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Lathraea squamaria in a sea of Allium ursinum.

#wildflowers #botany

The finely pinnatifid leaves and spotted stems of Conium maculatum, Hemlock.

Spotted in a #Cambridge verge! 😉

A Purple toothwort flower in grass.

Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, by a fence around an electricity sub-station in #Cambridge. May have been introduced with grape vines in an adjacent allotment.
#WildFlowerHour

Hornbeam catkins in a hedge by a #Cambridge P&R #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

What did the Romans do for us? They forgot to take Alexanders with them when they left in 410AD. Early flowers from where it is invading a #Cambridge hedge. #WildFlowerHour

Interesting. There’s a patch near home in Cambridge with no signs yet but the extent of the plant in Bury is so wide there’s always a chance of a few early flowers.

Common Alder male catkins and female cones below a dull red leaf bud. Lackford Lakes #Suffolk. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Spring Beauty under a planted Beech hedge in #Cambridge
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

First few flowers of Few-flowered Garlic, Allium paradoxum, amongst Cleavers in The Great Churchyard #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Hybrid Poplar with Mistletoe above and Purple Toothwort below by Hobson's Conduit upstream from the latter's main population on Sheep's Green #Cambridge
#WildflowerHour

Male Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, now joined by female in flower in a swale in the Accordia housing development #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Not what you want to see on a protected verge: Glory-of-the-Snow, Scilla forbesii, and Garden Grape-hyacinth, Muscari armeniacum. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring #Cambridge
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Photos of what Prof Henslow and Babington would have called it Hyacinthus/Muscari racemosus between Cherry Hinton and the Gog-magog Hills.

Under Blackthorn & Alexanders (hence illumination with phone torch) here's Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, in the spot described by Prof Henslow in 1828 as 'under a hedge on the side of the hill between Hinton & the Gogs' (see ALT).
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring #Cambridge 🍒🏘️

Inside a well lit conservatory with white walls and red tiled floor. Trailing plants grow up and down the back wall behind two small round tables holding large pot plants. Another, lower, rectangular table stands along the side wall with smaller pot plants on top. Between the three small tables stand two large, sculptures on white plinths.

Inside the conservatory at the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors #photography #dailyphoto #out&about #sculpture #Cornwall

Last years capsule and seed coats, this years seedlings. Agrostemma githago.

#wildflowers #botany

Suffolk landscape. Veteran Hornbeams and Anglo-Saxon South Elmham Minster.
#trees

In March there will be three Sunday afternoon quarter peal attempts by the Norman Tower Bellringers, on 8 and 15 March and for the Justices Service on 22 March.

There will also be a full peal attempt by a local band and friends on Saturday 14 March starting at around 10.00 am.

A close up photo of a stone plaque inscribed thus: NEAR THIS SPOT ON THE 20TH NOVEMBER A.D. 1214. CARDINAL LANGTON & THE BARONS SWORE AT ST EDMUND'S ALTAR THAT THEY WOULD OBTAIN FROM KING JOHN THE RATIFICATION OF MAGNA CHARTA. WHERE THE RUDE BUTTRESS TOTTERS TO ITS FALL, AND IVY MANTLES O'ER THE CRUMBLING WALL; WHERE E'EN THE SKILFUL EYE CAN SCARCELY TRACE THE ONCE HIGH ALTAR'S LOWLY RESTING PLACE- LET PATRIOTIC FANCY MUSE AWHILE AMID THE RUINS OF THIS ANCIENT PILE. SIX WEARY CENTURIES HAVE PAST AWAY: PALACE AND ABBEY MOULDER IN DECAY- COLD DEATH ENSHROUDS THE LEARNED & THE BRAVE LANGTON-FITZ WALTER-SLUMBER IN THE GRAVE, BUT STILL WE READ IN DEATHLESS RECORDS HOW THE HIGH-SOUL'D PRIEST CONFIRMD THE BARONS VOW; AND FREEDOM, UNFORGETFUL STILL RECITES, THIS SECOND BIRTH PLACE OF OUR NATIVE RIGHTS.

Inspired by this plaque on the ruins of the Abbey #BuryStEdmunds I am reading 'Magna Carta' by Dan Jones and wondering how much of the legend is true.

Discovered that the rachis of young Asplenium trichomanes is green at the tip 😱 nice to look at but a bit disconcerting...

#fern #botany

The delicate shades of Ficaria verna 'Single Cream' in the 'Mountains' glasshouse at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today! 💛
#Cambridge #Botany #Gardening

St Bene't's Church #Cambnridge described as the oldest in Cambridgeshire and the oldest building in the city has a surprisingly simple font. 🤔
#FontsOnFriday

Rustyback, Asplenium ceterach, a rare plant in #Suffolk. 10 year old record in @bsbibotany.bsky.social database, with OS grid ref as though it was on #BuryStEdmunds Cathedral wall but a case of 'it's behind you' in sunken area round Norman Belltower, plus Heart's-tongue. #FernFriday

Why is it always Worcestershire? I have close family connections. 😬

Two attempts to photo fast flying Brimstones today plus a posing Peacock in the #Suffolk #Brecks today.
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Secret letters on Suffolk councils consultation 'disappointing' County council letters show it did not want a public consultation on a three-council option for LGR.

Transparency matters when it comes to local government reorganisation.

Residents deserve an open and honest conversation about what structure will best serve communities across Suffolk.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hairy-footed flower bee approaching hairy flowers of Abraham-Isaac-Jacob in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday.
#WildWebsWednesday

On a WhatsApp group I’ve just seen great image of Blackthorn/Cherry-plum comparison. Traces back to @bsbibotany.bsky.social resources and Kevin Widdowson who was active in the ‘other place’ & deserves acknowledgment! Find it and more here:

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I would have had to pull it up to see if it screamed. On the other hand if I had to guess which one of the today’s spring flowers would scream when manhandled this with its eerie shades of blue would be the one.