Joshua Styles

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)!

A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️

Field of yellow wildflowers with green trees in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Field of wildflowers such as orchids, and buttercups prominent in the foreground, set against lush green foliage and an overcast sky.

Close-up of a Butterfly Orchid with multiple blossoms in a grassy field, set against a blurred background of grass and a partly cloudy blue sky.

Close-up of Cowslip with multiple small blossoms in a grassy field, featuring an insect on one blossom and a blurred background of scattered yellow flowers.

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Has anyone else noticed it?

After years of waiting, it looks like we’re going to have a mast year with our native oaks!!!

I’ll be collecting acorns from veteran and ancient trees around Liverpool later this year for anyone or nurseries who would like some and would like to get in touch 🌱❤️

Spotted the striking (and pungent) bog myrtle (Myrica gale) in a Cumbrian upland fen yesterday.

Once common on the Manchester Mosses before industry wiped it out over a century ago, Lancs Wildlife Trust and I have been working to reintroduce it since 2019 😍🌱

Thanks Jon 🌱❤️

Last recorded >150 years ago in 1874, I was absolutely shocked to find oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia) at Abbots Moss in Cheshire!!

Not only is this beastie both rare and red-listed, this will soon probably be the last population in the entire county! 😱🌱❤️

It can be found in U4 grasslands with a pH of around 4.5 (ish) :P

Thanks so much Carla 🌱❤️

A once-common and abundant plant of grasslands, Dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) needs help.

For #NationalMeadowsDay, I’ve put a guide together on the propagation, reintroduction and management of this functionally important & imperilled beastie: nwrpi.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/...

A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day!

Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️

AMAZING NEWS!!!!

Known from less than 10 places in England and just one site left in Cheshire, this beaut saltmarsh flat-sedge (Blysmus rufus) was found for the first time today on Hoylake beach on Wirral!!! So exciting eeee 😍🌱

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A quick reminder that gardens can make such important spaces for biodiversity. 4 years on and things have come quite a way for me…

- over 30 marsh and spotted orchids ✅
- rocketing wildflower species richness ✅
- huge abundance of pollinators and other invertebrates ✅

Not seen in this part of northwest England for over 50 years - it was amaze to find Common Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense)!

Unlike its cousin, yellow rattle, this beastie doesn’t parasitise the roots of grasses. Instead, it goes for woody plants, including oaks 😍🌱

When I first moved into my house, there was a single marsh orchid that flowered in this meadow in 2022…

After managing it, we’ve just had another record breaking year with 28 in flower now plus lots of other incredible wildlife making this place home!! Chuffed!!! 🌱❤️

It almost certainly will be that far up north

Oooooo! Will DM you…

Regionally Endangered in north-west England and last seen in Liverpool in 1926, today marks the first day that Dyer’s Greenweed (Genista tinctoria) has flowered here!

Reintroduced with permission to this @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social grassland, today, it’s thriving! 😍🌱

Not a great year for a lot of insects, but wow…can’t remember the last time I had this many bug splats on my car! 😱😍

Keen to find out more about Dandelions (Taraxacum spp.)?
Get started with the pix, resources and a fab free video from the amazing @joshual951.bsky.social - all on this page:
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Absolute shocker to find Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a rare and completely parasitic plant, at Manc Airport the other day. It hasn’t been seen here since 1965, while it now has only a single stronghold left in Cheshire 😨😍🌱

Thanks so much Sabena!

This gorgeous bank of Primroses and Violets at Hutchinson's Bank is always a safe bet to spot Dark-edged Bee-flies on a sunny Spring day. #BeeFlyWatch
Read about the fascinating life history of Bee-flies here:
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bee...

Yes.

Last seen in Liverpool >100 years ago and found at two places Merseyside - it was a shock to find this beauttt at @nationaltrust.bsky.social Speke Hall!

It’s Spring Sedge (Carex caryophyllea) - a reliable indicator of ancient grassland and heaths 😍🌱

Beaut lawn Duncan! I’ve just been celebrating Netherley’s first cowslips, plus 2000+ babies 😆😍🌱

So @wildjustice.bsky.social is too edgy for @privateeyenews.bsky.social ! We're fans because the magazine speaks truth to power . That's what WJ tries to do too . We were surprised when PE said that it wouldn't run our second and third adverts , especially as they gave no reason for this .

Nearly a year after I raised concerns about the @nationaltrust management of Speke Hall’s dry heath-the only example of its kind left in Merseyside- I met with them today as they committed to doubling its area!

An amazing step for one of Merseyside’s most endangered habitats 🌱❤️

Yeah ive visited this a couple times during dry weather without any prior exceptional rainfall and it’s constantly running

And thanks!