Yes, screenshot was just for location 🗺️📍Road is straight & 50mph. So shocked to see it had been mown - didn’t stop to photograph.
Usually in April this whole verge/ditch section is filled with Ladysmock 🌸🌱
Aaargh! ✨🌼💛🐝
The application requires a species survey, so will try - but the main species is Ladysmock 🌸
👍 Email update:
“I have checked with East Sussex Highways and they have confirmed it is a verge that we maintain, but we haven’t cut in that area yet so can only assume it has been cut by someone else.”
Included in the email is a link to apply for verge to be considered as a Wildflower Verge 🙏🌱
A narrow path in woodland with a haze of Bluebells
Woodland glade with fresh green tree canopy & carpet of indigo Bluebells
Haze of Bluebells in woodland, a little path to the left
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#Bluebells in local woodland, East Sussex #WildflowerHour 🌱
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I never saw a bee wee! 👍😊
Cuckoo Flower with its top butterfly partner, a female Orange Tip, eggs laid here ... #WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily
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I’ve messaged just now to ask council how we get this verge listed. East Sussex CC website says “Areas of verge listed & marked as being of wildlife interest, will be specially maintained according to the needs of the individual verge.”
But also says a full cut of county verges every 4yrs?
I just don’t get their logic? 🚜 Glad you’ve one good patch this year 👍
🙏 Emailed as soon as I got home 👍 Disbelief. Felt like a whole beautiful season was lost? It looked so wasted.
One step at a time … hope to hear back from council this week.
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🙏 I’ve emailed Rother Council to see if they mowed it? Literally 4 - 5 days ago it was so luxuriant. Astonished/dismayed to see 💔
Clusters of pretty white four-petalled Garlic Mustard flowers, above their fresh green nettle-y looking leaves
Coronet of Garlic Mustard flowers and bright green foliage, which looks as though it was cut with pinking shears
More flowers of Garlic Mustard with their long seedheads sticking out in all directions
#CabbageFamily for #WildflowerHour 🥬
Lovely Garlic Mustard/Jack by the Hedge - Alliaria petiolata
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Screenshot of Google Street View dated March 2025 - a roadside verge, ditch and hedgerow - usually in April there’s masses of beautiful Ladysmock along its length. Recently the ditch was mown, all flowers cut off.
Ladysmock flowering on a grass verge by a lane. Lilac pink flowers. White Deadnettle flowers beside it
Ladysmock flowers and its feathery leaf
Ladysmock flowering in a damp lane-side ditch. Could be foliage of Hemlock Water Dropwort alongside? Not sure #WildflowerID
🥬🌸🌾 #CabbageFamily for #WildflowerHour
Sad to see - local hedge ditch, which on Tues was a lilac/pink cloud of Ladysmock - now mown bald (pic GoogleMaps) not sure by whom?
Sad for Orange Tip Butterflies 🦋
Found small Ladysmock colony near home 🙏🌱
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Row of sunlit hybrid Bluebells in garden setting, long grass in foreground
Green jug of garden Bluebells, cut & brought indoors, in an effort to avoid hybridisation with wild Bluebell hyacinthoides non-scripta
Larger flowers of hybrid Bluebell
Wild Bluebells flowering in bank under old Ash tree: hyacinthoides non-scripta
🌱 Lawn here was mown vigorously by previous resident. We are *mowsaic* - some paths mown for practicality + an area of ‘lawn’ that blackbirds like. Everything else is uncut. Next to sheep fields & woodland nearby with Bluebells. I’m reading views on their hybridisation (see ALT text) ⬇️🤔💙🔔
You share a clear sense of the wildflowers’ essence - thank you ✨🙏🌸🌱
Beautiful photos Ria 🌸
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Sunshine on Bluebells in a hedge bank. A couple of Cowslips and starry yellow Celandine too
Bluebells & Cowslip in hedge bank. A few starry Celandine ✨
Hedge Garlic, tall and fresh green-leaved with clusters of white flowers. A couple of Violet flowers beside
Perfect and bright pink flowers of Herb Robert with their filigree foliage. Behind is a rosette of Foxglove leaves and some feathery Feverfew foliage. Sunny
Sky blue Forget me Not, a clump of Primrose, shiny foliage of Lords & Ladies and Herb Robert leaves
Little purple flowers of Ground Ivy scramble along the bank among other foliage
Edge of #WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour Jack by the Hedge/Hedge Garlic/Garlic Mustard, Herb Robert, Forget me Not, Primrose, Lords & Ladies, Ground Ivy
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Patch of starry white Wood Anemone, with a sprinkling of Bluebells on woodland floor
Massed white stars of Wood Anemone with their fresh green foliage
Woodland floor studded with white flowers of Wood Anemone
Carpet of Wood Anenome all throughout a woodland floor of mossy tree trunks
#WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour Bluebells were just emerging ten days ago, when we visited this local woodland. Wood anemone abundant. Hope to get back for another look 💙🔔
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Katherine Johnson working hard at NASA
Dorothy Vaughn NASA photo
Mary Jackson NASA PHOTO
Artemis II are home safe 🥹
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson would be so proud 💜🌙
Breaking: Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania for trying to absolve herself of involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
“Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power.”
Strappy green leaves of Amaryllis in a terracotta pot on windowsill with smaller potted plants around it. Behind are bamboo screens hung at sunlit window.
Morning sunlight dapples through the hedge onto the window. Instead of net curtains, there’s a frosted film printed with white daisies. These all mix with the sunlight to make dancing patterns for a short time
Quality of today’s sunlight is astonishing & welcome 🌞 Amaryllis didn’t flower, but is briefly making a handsome foliage plant 🪴
#bloomscrolling #houseplants 🌱
Can we please get back to finding out what’s in the Epstein Files?
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