White flowers on delicate shrub stems. Green leaves

Hawthorn from Dublin this week for @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildfloerhour #treeflowers

Almost spooky!

Horsetail stems with sea and mountains in the background

Love these two. Snap! Look what I saw today too

The #Sepals of Cherry-plum are reflexed, those of Blackthorn adpressed! #WildflowerHour. Hedges around #Cambridge.

Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Mafia state politics: “This week Reuters reported that several federal judges in the Washington DC area had pizzas sent anonymously to their homes, a gesture that police interpreted as ‘a form of intimidation meant to convey that a target’s address is known’.”

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Golden catkins and one tiny red flower of Hazel

One yellow bloom in green foliage (celandine)

Just two wild flowers(Celandine and Hazel) spotted in Dublin this week and shared for #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects

High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thank you! It was a great night and I enjoyed the poems a lot.