TBH most of the tender things are going to have to take their chance but we’ve earthed up the potatoes and brought the bean seedlings in

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Hike.

Hike who?

solitary cow
standing atop a mountain
longs for home – Dundee

Indeed you appear to me with a red banner labelled “Forbidden!”

Do you know UA Fanthorpe’s poem “May the 8th and how to recognise it” which begins “The tulips have finished their showy conversation” ? Like everything else, it’s early this year

I’m going to assume this is a good faith mistake in tagging me as an editor. I’m not an archaeologist. Please delete and repost correctly

Tiny low growing pink stars of erodium/storksbill growing on sand dunes

Yellow gorse above White Sea campion above purple violets

Pink thrift on its cushion of fine leaves in front of a beachscape of grey shingle, a large driftwood trunk , blue sea and blue sky

Pink veined white flowers of wood sorrel with its bright green trefoil leaves. Closed as it was raining

Four from the North Devon coast path this week. Erodium from the dunes, a combination of gorse, sea campion and sweet violet from the cliffs, thrift from the shingle and wood sorrel as my contribution to #WoodlandPlants. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Did you test the cafe?

Plain stone font square with rounded corners. Wooden lid, mossy montage on the plinth with empty tomb and simple cross

The Saxon font from All Saints Clovelly for #FontsOnFriday; its simplicity an ideal backdrop for their Easter garden.

Triangular porch with round arch with zigzag carving and stone cross above

Relocated Norman door for All Saints Clovelly #AdoorableThursday. Font tomorrow!

A couple near Chagford and one at Exminster

As someone of mixed heritage I like this a lot

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️

Strong winds across northern England, southern Scotland and northwest Wales

Saturday 19:00 – Sunday 03:00

Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

#StormDave set to bring 90mph wind gusts and 20cm snow N UK this #Easter #weekend

Warnings ⚠️ issued

More details..

#weatheraware
www.metoffice.gov.uk

#StormDave has been named and is forecast to bring damaging winds across northern parts of the UK, with some disruptive snow possible in northwest Scotland later on Saturday and into Easter Day #WeatherAware

Everyone else has been finding it!

Climbing corydalis : white pea like flowers

Danish scurvy grass against the sea wall at Teignmouth. White flowers, fleshy leaves and not like a grass at all

Three heath violets with pale spurs

Pink striped flowers and paired leaves of pink purslane

I should have been looking up for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #TreeFlowers but I was hunting Moschatel. Didn’t find it but these were some compensation. Just one Devon lane was coated in climbing corydalis, the scurvy grass was by the sea rather than on a salty verge, heath violets & pink purslane

We are still feeling the effects of some of the carbon dioxide from the Titanic, from the first Model-T, from the first steam engine. This chart is the most important chart in climate policy and yet most folks don’t know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.

A gate into green fields with hedgerows with gorse either side. Bare trees, blue sky with cumulus and in the distance the hills which include Hay Tor

Gorgeous clouds and Hay Tor in the distance. #Dartmoor #LoveUKWeather

Oops! Should have looked at your profile before volunteering advice!

They will relocate easily at this stage

British electricity mix at 2pm on 25th Mar 2026

🔥Gas 2.9% Biomass 6.0%
🍃Wind 48.9% Solar 22.4% Hydro 0.5%
⚛️Nuclear 12.1%
➡️Imports 7.3% Other 0.0%
🪫Storage 0.0%

🔌Generation 37GW
🌍Carbon intensity 64 gCO2e/kWh
vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030

Cowslips

Five wood anemone flowers and some wild garlic leaves

Mostly the golden saxifrage with a celandine and seed leaves of Himalayan balsam

A poor photo of cow parsley flowers with leaves from anything but

Spring well advanced for #WildflowerHour. This week’s newcomers are cowslip, wood anemone, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage and the first cow parsley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I need to teach them how to 🧪!

Probably needs genetics to answer the question. If you do do a student project I’d love to see it

I’ve been wondering about this for years. Can anyone point me at a scientific paper/ botanical journal on this? I know some vulgaris purists get all hot under the collar about the pink ones but I observe them apparently spontaneously in many wild populations

With the weather for the next few days maybe one swallow will make a summer

Also, March is about to exhibit some lamb-like behaviour

Met Office in the Cloud was a great event and this blog gives a glimpse into the long term strategy we have been and will be pursuing

Well I’ll flag it in case we have created an unusually data hungry app but it is so personal to individual usage. I’m sure I’d use more if there was enough data on Dartmoor for the rainfall radar to work. It’s good to have the report anyway because we’d need to hear from many users

It’s hugely dependent on what app you’ve used where. Mine’s used 9MB. Perhaps ours is the one you rely on when you’re out in the wilds?