Massive display of Primroses at Fairhead, Co.Antrim coast today.#wildflowerhour

Photo of Common Cornsalad flowers

Photo of Common Cornsalad

Photo of Common Cornsalad seeds

Common Cornsalad, growing by the Temenos sculpture in Middlehaven, Middlesbrough.
#wildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Just missed the slot for #wildflowerhour with my #brassica Wintercress! Can't resist throwing in newly opened hawthorn, a scary-looking russian comfrey and the irresistible wood sorrell.

Wow, what a fabulous #WildFlowerHour, so many different species coming into bloom right now: huge thanks to all of you who shared your lovely photos!
Have a great week plant-spotting & look out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge set by the amazing @botanybeck.bsky.social

A wonderful #wildflowerhour this evening, huge thanks for sharing your gorgeous photos & for taking part in this week’s #cabbagefamily challenge! Keep a lookout for the next one and happy flower hunting! ☺️

Pale mauvish blue and bright blue Germander speedwell flowers in grass.

Germander speedwell in flower at the back of @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Lovely day visiting my daughter in Leeds & was interesting to see what’s flowering in her local area. From top left Bogbean, Apple blossom, Greater Stitchwort, Hawthorn & Cowslips. Swathes of Honesty, Garlic Mustard & Cuckooflower for this week’s #CabbageChallenge #wildflowerhour

Greater Stichwort, Rabelera (Stellaria) holostea, at the edge of a traditional hay meadow in Dorset #wildflowerhour

There are swathes of Garlic Mustard that have bloomed recently in our local country park, and a few of them have various six-legged visitors...
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#WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily

This is it!
The most Northerly native Pasqueflower in UK, for many years it’s hung on for dear life,
Ledsham, Yorks
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@panspecieslisting.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour

Pow!

Took a bit of a gamble today with a jaunt up to Upper Teesdale, not expecting too much if truth be told. But even a handful of these was enough to make the journey worthwhile.

📸 Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna)

#botany #wildflowerhour

Spotted Medick, Ground Ivy, Dogs Mercury, Wood Anemone, Wood Spurge, Field Madder, Borage, Greater Celandine, Common cornsalad AND BLUEBELLS all around Canterbury 💙💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve spotted flowering this week from across Britain & Ireland especially if they are members of the #cabbagefamily the theme of this week’s challenge! ☺️

Hawthorn, Cow Parsley, Bluebell, Green Alkanet, 3 Cornered Leek, PettySpurge, Garlic Mustard, Lsr Celandine, Crab Apple, Ramsons, Alexanders, Cowslip, Birdseye Speedwell, Marsh Marigold - My Scotland to London trip !#CamleyNatureReserve is @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Collage of April woodland plants: cherry blossom on a branch, snake’s-head fritillary with chequered purple petals, pale pink wood anemone, green wych elm samaras, nodding bluebells, yellow cowslips, white wild garlic flowers, and primroses in soft yellow, all set against fresh spring greenery.

April wildflowers and woodland plants for this week’s #WildflowerHour: cherry blossom and wych elm above, snake’s-head fritillary, wood anemone, cowslip, bluebell, wild garlic and primrose below, weaving colour through the woodland. #WoodlandPlants

One of my favourite woodland plants, Yellow Archangel, Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp montanum. 💛 #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

Another amazing #wildflowerhour tonight! Thank you all so much for sharing your gorgeous pics, it was wonderful to see all those beautiful #woodlandplants! Keep a lookout for the next challenge and happy flower hunting! ☺️

A fabulous #WildFlowerHour with so many #WoodlandPlants, huge thanks to everyone who shared pix.
We agree with @petergibbs.bsky.social, this is our favourite time of the year too, in local ancient woodlands!
Have a great week & keep a look out for next week's @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge!

Scurvygrass - perhaps Common and Danish ? #PlantID found at Bay of Ireland near Stromness and clinging to the cliff tops at #MarwickHead - which provided some sporting Botanising situations 🫣😅 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @orkneycom.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social

Custodians of the Countryside. After being given a lifetime ban on keeping animals, Skipton farmer Hayden Fortune turned his farm into a massive illegal waste site. Hayden had earlier blamed "a spree of rural crime" for threatening electricity inspectors.

The crime spree was true - it was his own.

It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour.
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland, including any #treeflowers for tonight's challenge.
Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social botanists.

Just found my photos from FIVE years ago for the same tree - ‘Clare’ red ! @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Willow catkins showing their downy start before pollen

For #Wildflowerhour's #treeflowers challenge, willow catkins in a row at different stages of maturity growing locally in #Preston, taken yesterday. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN

A fabulous selection of plants in bloom for tonight's #WildFlowerHour, especially all those gorgeous #TreeFlowers!
Huge thanks to all of you who shared photos & observations.
Have a great week, keep an eye out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge & see you at 8pm next Sunday!

Trees flowering in Northumberland this week for #WildflowerHour There are catkins on the black popla trees, with the red male catkins and the female green catkins on separate trees. Bunches of green flowers on the Norway maples and white blossom on the blackthorns #treeflowers

White Blackthorn blossoms on lichen encrusted branches, against a blurred grey background.

Blackthorn and lichen. #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

A collage of tree flowers. Most still on the tree, one on the ground. One with a bee.

#WildflowerHour #treeflowers
I missed the announcement, but managed to grab a few from the week’s photos.

Hornbeam catkins today

For #Wildflowerhour's #treeflowers challenge, I think this is hornbeam growing locally in #Preston, taken today when it was very blowy! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN

Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) and Primrose (Primula vulgaris) on a Strandhill roadside, Co Sligo

This week's hedgerow offerings for #wildflowerhour: neon Alexanders (introduced by the Romans, & not at all common in NW #Ireland) with its stripy purple bloomers, plus some choirboy primroses.
We all got a soaking later! 🌈🌧 #WildAtlanticWay #Sligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildireland.bsky.social

Thank you so much for this quote! I was already wondering about the very pale Larch flowers which I found - is it that they’ve just ‘gone over’ ? 🤔 @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social