A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
English bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
One more for #wildflowerhour, I’ve been in Scotland, and came home to Hampshire earlier this week, the change in flowers in 10 days was vast, native bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) flowering in the local woods #bluebells
Cardamine pratensis
For #wildflowerhour#cabbagefamily a cuckoo flower, ladies smock or Cardamine pratensis which is loved by orange tip butterflies, they‘re plentiful this year round our way
Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula)
For #wildflowerhour, finally, local orchids are in flower - early purple orchids in NE Hampshire #orchids #epo
The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.
Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...
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Cowslip - primula veris
For #wildFlowerHour, a cowslip for #cowslipchallenge (and because it’s Easter there’s also a bit of Good Friday grass, if you look close enough).
Just up the road in Hook, we seeing too many threats including 2200 homes between Hook & Hartley Wintney on a30, one of developers team talked about draining into the river Whitewater - not good, we need protection for our chalk streams
Good Friday grass in the churchyard - Luzula campestris, low growing and distinctive plant found in grasslands
In the church graveyard, for Good Friday, Luzula campestris, commonly known as Good Friday grass (its rush family). Always seems to be flowering for Good Friday! #wildflowerhour #wilderchurches
bluebells - hyacinthoides non-scripta just starting to do their thing
Greater stitchwort - stellaria holistea
Wood anemone - anemonoides nemorosa
Violet - common dog Violet - viola riviniana
So many flowers this week, hard to chose a couple of highlights from a wet walk in an ancient woodland - bluebells, greater stitchwort, wood anemone and violet (prob common dog Violet) #wildflowerhour
Pussy willow salix caprea
For #Wildflowerhour #treeflowers willow (pussy willow salix caprea) aren’t they fabulous catkins
whoops #WildFlowerHour
Celandine in the church yard
For #wildfliwerhour #wilderchurches, you have to love an old churchyard, often undisturbed grasslands with so many wild flowers, a carpet of celandine
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Such an odd list of books, and for many you wonder why - the Dan Brown may not be great literature, but readable and fun puzzle solving, and made me read more about art/the places. We are living in dystopian times, Orwell & Atwood were ahead of their times & so right!
Wood anemone - Anemone nemorosa
Wood anemone, just starting to flower in NE Hampshire #wildflowerhour - they spread very slowly perhaps 6 ft in a 100years - so a marker of ancient woodland
Just think if you put that money into renewables, how we’d be more isolated from oil crises in the future, obviously it’s long term, but makes more sense to aim harder for net zero
Have the fossil-fuel-funded Tories / Refukkers, who insist we need more North Sea oil production instead of net zero, ever explained why, when it would be sold on the international market at the Brent Crude price which has risen 66% this yr?
In reality, net zero is the route to energy independence.
Bluebells - always an early patch of bluebells, by a little patch of water in Winchester
White sweet violet along a footpath in Winchester
Early dog Violet, in the local woods - no wood anemones or bluebells in the woods
Cowslips
For #wildflowerhour #spring - bluebells, sweet violet, early dog violet and cowslips
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blackthorn
Blackthorn
Blackthorn
For #wildflowerhour, the white frothy hedges that is blackthorn flowering, interestingly I don’t remember seeing sloes and flowers at the same time before 🤷♀️
Lovely, I’ve been looking in NE Hampshire, and none so far!
If you go back, in Heysham there is also a fab nature reserve (not far from the power station).
Beautiful pic
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s so lovely when we get some great urban wild flowers, we have a patch near us too
Loddon Lily Leucojum aestivum
Loddon Lily Leucojum aestivum
For #WildFlowerHour Loddon Lily (Leucojum aestivum) from NE Hampshire in a small copse which is a SINC (ancient woodland) - we’re not too far from the Loddon, so maybe native.
Definitely blackthorn is flowering our way, complete with a few left over sloes!
The joy of 🦋, you can admire flowers from around the world, some fab flowers from Death Valley (we won’t be going to the US any time soon, but so lovely to see pics)
Primula veris, the cowslip - a sign of spring
A day late for #wildflowerhour, but worth waiting for a dry day, and so nice to catch a little sunshine! Today on my walk my first cowslips of the year (well first couple), a welcome shot of yellow #wildflowerhour #signofspring
