Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) 😍
Fabulous to spend some time with this beautiful plant on my way down to #DandiFest'26 #wildflowerhour

Noticing Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima) tonight, looking south from the #Northumberland border to St Mary’s Lighthouse at #WhitleyBay, UK #Botany #WildflowerHour

Specimen of Bog myrtle collected by James Petiver from a bog just north of Frant in Sussex on 16 August 1714, and now in the Natural History Museum, London, within Petiver's Hortus siccus Anglicanus, HS152, f. 258

In 1714 James Sherard and James Petiver went on a plant-collecting tour of Sussex and Kent. This is a specimen of Myrica gale (Bog-myrtle) collected "About Tundridge Wells", which Petiver's diary shows was gathered 16 August 1714 (OS) 1/2

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Rewilding farmland, soon after the trees spring up unplanted, a host of wildflowers and other ground flora move in, like this wood sorrel. Then come the insects, followed by birds and other animals.

It's all just so beautiful, and so *hopeful*.

Cardamine pratensis, Cuckoo flower, Lady’s Smock.
#WildFlowerHour, #Brassicaceae #Cruciferae

Slender speedwell, Veronica filiformis at Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire yesterday @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Are you wanting to get your copy of the awesome "The Biological Recording Handbook - Making Wildlife Count" signed, in person, by the wonderful author - @sarahwhild.bsky.social? Then join us at #NFBRConference2026 Book here: bit.ly/4sZO4iz (p.s. you can buy copy there too!) #BiologicalRecording

Bugle Ajuga reptans can spread by long rooting runners to form large semi-evergreen patches of leaves. It has square stems with hairs on only two sides, and produces spikes of blue flowers with white markings. Photo: Plantlife

If you have nice photos of orchids, please consider helping our colleague @milneorchid.bsky.social!

🎶 If you go down to the woods today… it’s gorgeous 🐾 👣

It’s carpeted with wonderful white wildflowers … the very pretty wood anemones 🤍

#wildflowers #WoodAnemones #botany #Scotland
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A trio of lovely sedges from Martin Down NNR today. Dwarf Sedge Carex humilis, Spring-sedge C. caryophyllea, Glaucous Sedge C. flacca. Very few humilis seen: all a bit delayed it seems. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Upright Chickweed

Annual Knawel

Pink Shepherds Purse

Adders Tongue and Green Winged Orchids

More fab plants seen whilst down South for a wonderful weekend of Dandelions. I've never seen so many Ophioglossum in one place 😍
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Cerastium semidecandrum, Little Mouse-Ear; an arable "weed" of disturbed worked land; in a field in a small farm near Wiston, West Sussex. It is experiencing declines in its range and abundance due to changing agricultural practices and climate change. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Painting of cuckoo flowers.

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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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Around *1/5* of all the species that live in a natural forest need dead wood.

So no, it's not 'wasted' or 'untidy'. Even in your garden, spare a thought and leave it for them.

Healthy #peatlands are one of the planet’s most efficient carbon sinks. They also reduce flood and wildfire risk by regulating water movement, filter and clean water, and support a unique range of plants and #wildlife like dragonflies.

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Red-tailed bumblebee feasting on the dandelions in our wild garden.
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#NoToPesticides #YesToDandelions

@bsbibotany.bsky.social have two great new FREE webinars coming up, as part of the Botanical Skills NI Project 🌼🌿🌸
Build up your skills at organising & leading botanical events and sharing your knowledge on Mon 27 April at 7pm. Book a place here www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

For those who have seen my latest post of the picture I took of the Cuckoo flower meadow for #WildflowerHour & #CabbageFamily. This video shows how beautiful this place is, even with drizzle.
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thank you so much @bsbibotany.bsky.social!! It is going to be such a fun event! I am looking forward to your awesome social calendar over the year too!

White and pink hairy flowers of the bogbean plant

The bogbean is flowering in the pond, one of the most beautiful wildflowers!
#pondplants #wildflowers #ponds
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Herb-Paris (Paris quadrifolia) in a rather manky chalk scarp wood nr Alvediston, Wiltshire today. Unhelpfully likes hiding amongst dense Dog's Mercury Mercurialis perennis, which can make things difficult. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hard to beat Apple blossom growing as wild over a dry stone wall in a N Wilts hedgerow. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Do you lead recording or field events?
Would you like to hear practical tips and guidance from BSBI event leaders on how to organise and manage botanical field meetings?
We're running a FREE webinar next Monday, 27 April, 7-8.30pm.
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An Early (puppy-)Dog Violet (Viola reichenbachiana) looking very cute for #Wildflowerhour! 🐶
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A close up of a Scottish primrose. It has purple petals and a yellow centre.

Shadowy mountains rising over a pond-filled peatland. The sky is blue and an orange light is cast over the landscape.

Various grasses growing from a lowland bog which is surrounded by broadleaved trees. Several electrical pylons are visible in the distance.

An adder coiled up amidst grass and wildflowers on a clifftop. The sea is visible meeting a rocky coast in the background.

We’re looking for two new Reserve Managers to join our conservation team. Our West area stretches from important urban greenspaces in Glasgow to the rugged Argyll coast, while in the North you’ll oversee the Trust’s stunning Orkney reserves, Ben Mor Coigach and others.

More info 👇

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Did u know? "Weeds" - wildflowers deserve a break.Rather than persecute them, we should celebrate them for the life they bring into our outside spaces. Like this Spotted Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum) It arrived in my garden for free (whoop!) & my Hairy-Footed Flower Bees totally adore them. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝🪲

Landscape of globally rare habitat restored near Loch Ness in one of first and largest projects of its kind in Scotland In one of the first and biggest projects of its kind in Scotland, a landscape of more than 1,000 hectares of a globally rare and threatened habitat is being restored near Loch Ness, as part of Britain...

Restoring #peatland at Dundreggan and beyond 💦 A partnership of charities, landowners and businesses has joined together to save and repair a connected area of blanket #bog - among the world’s rarest habitats - across three neighbouring and diverse landholdings 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/globall...

Our trustee Nicola @wildplantwanderer.bsky.social took a break from #Identiplant to enjoy a day of #hanami, the Japanese custom of enjoying picnicking under the cherry blossom!
Find out more & check out our handy links to help you with #WildFlowerID on cherries (Prunus spp):
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