Lady #orchid today, east Kent

A bit too late for the #cruciferchallenge on #wildflowerhour tonight - Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) - I knew I had taken a pic TODAY for it!
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#wildflowerhour When I stopped to photograph this wonderful flower, I assumed it to be a Cuckooflower, but very white petals - washed out in the sun? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour This little Wood Sedge (Carex sylvatica) is much less common than the bigger pendulous sedge, which is a frequent sight in the High Weald... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour There was plenty to see on today's quite short walk through local woodland and heath, with Bluebells, Bugle and more in other posts... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Not just woodland... We have local hillside fields that are happily managed (very late season grass cut) with a good population of Bluebells.

Presumably waiting for more nuclear waste canisters to take away to Sellafield...

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I think these are Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca) from the leaf, since flowers didn't give me much of a clue - growing on a railway bridge parapet wall.
[Also see the lichen spots?!]
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Ramsons (Alium ursinum) are widspread in flower now... in the local area - possibly the most dominant flower now that Celadines and Wood Anenomies are dying back a bit.
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Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) - flowering well locally this year on the sunny edges of #Woodland
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Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) - first sighting locally this year... seen today, in a damp quite dark #woodland location.
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Common Dog Violet - notice the small central red/orange dot - not sure if that is an important id issue?

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Common Dog Violet (Viola riviniana) growing on a railway bridge parapet wall
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Thanks for the comments - I agree too: wrong id by me.😢 At the time I was "brain fogged* due to some medication and simply didn't give enough energy to thinking about it.
How great to get help from members of the #wildflowerhour community. ☺️

#wildflowerhour At this time of year on a sunny day Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) -sepals esrect - is irresistabley beautiful.
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#wildflowerhour These fertile shoots of Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia) have colonised quite a large area of urban uncared for copse (also home to Japanese Knotweed), so in a much unloved site! Among the nettle leaves are two infertile shoots appearing, too.
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#wildflowerhour This looks like a white flowering Russian Comfrey (hybrid?) hiding a footpath stubstone direction marker. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour The leaves of Ramsons (Alium ursinum) have been out and about for a couple or three weeks around here, but this morning was my first sighting of flowering.
Ramsons is from the Old English word 'hramsa', meaning garlic, it is often called "wild gralic".
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The world is full of unintended consequences - but glad this one is seen as comedic! 🤣

Spring Equinox in our garden, first butterfly that loitered long enough to grap a pic.
Sex indeterminate, also this specimen has peculiar long forewings. Apparently males with 3 rings on hindwing, are patrollers...This one has two?

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve images for Spring Equinox:
* Winter die-back but with cloudless clear blue Spring sky
* Avocets happily feeding... #SussexWildlifeTrust

Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting!
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It had to be Wood Anemone, 'cos the sun was out this morning in TN33 and so where they!

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Mercury (Mercurialis) - you can count the leaf edge teeth number to decide if it is Dog's or Annual...
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Whenever i see Periwinkle (Vinca) in the countryside, I think it shouldn't really be there but neatly in a garden, though its been found in the wild as long ago as 1650
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Primroses are everywhere here abouts (TN33) now and an occasional pinkish one, too.
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Seven words in this post need explaining for average readers. Come on - who are you addressing?
To (lightly) educate me would be welcome...

I've got to say this made me chuckle. 👍

Waiting for the first show here in TN33...
Usually they are so flighty that I seldom manage a photograph!

Foggy morning needs a wake-up call from Camellia japonica pic taken in slightly less fog 😜 yesterday... (UK - TN33)

Thick fog here - 2026-03-09T08:00 - about ~50m visibility. Thicker than the previously several days of foggy starting mornings... Anemometer was static, but started very slowly moving at 08:10 / static again at 08:20...

Little and Large: a Speedwell flowering at Rye Harbour today in full sun - small colony, maybe 20 odd plants with some 15 flowers, just off the Environment Agency road, which had huge yellow trucks passing by every half hour or so.

Any takers for id of the Speedwell?