#GardenEscapes

I missed #wildflowerhour yesterday, and saw no flowering #gardenescapes in my local nature reserve. Instead, at a point known locally as St Patrick's Well, I came across this lovely clump of opposite-leaved saxifrage, set in a lustrous green carpet of unidentified liverwort.

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Spring blooms. Clockwise from top-left: Lesser Celandine, Pulmonaria, Coltsfoot, White Butterbur, Winter Aconite, Grape Hyacinth, Gorse, Crocus & Common Daisy (in centre)

White Butterbur flowers on the banks for the River Spey. An invasive non-native garden escape. Honeybees were loving it.

Signs of Spring in Speyside this week for #Wildflowerhour including a few #GardenEscapes. #WhiteButterbur seems to be worryingly abundant along the banks of River Spey near Aberlour. @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A fabulous #WildflowerHour, fascinating to see all your #GardenEscapes! Huge thanks to everyone that shared pics, you really brightened our evening! Keep a look out for the next challenge & see you all again next Sunday! Happy flower spotting! 🥰

A fabulous selection of wild plants in bloom + lots of #GardenEscapes (last week's challenge) for tonight's #WildFlowerHour.
Huge thanks to everyone who shared pix!
Keep an eye on @wildflowerhour.bsky.social to find out what next week's challenge will be, set by @botanybeck.bsky.social

And on the edge of the woodland some very late, large flowered and large leaved Snowdrop species (Galanthus sp.). Looks like someone has planted them here.

I’m unsure of the species/variety so any help naming this cultivar appreciated if possible.

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#WildflowerHour

Deep pink-flowered form of Eastern Sowbread Cyclamen coum

The brilliant blue flowers of Balkan Anemone Anemone blanda

A pinkish Primrose, looking very like Primula vulgaris subsp. rubra

The blue and white flowers of Glory-of-the-Snow Scilla forbesii

A quiet corner of a country churchyard, with an assemblage of #GardenEscapes hailing from eastern Europe and Asia Minor - Eastern Sowbread, Balkan Anemone, Sibthorp'e Primrose (probably) and Glory-of-the-Snow - all well established among the gravestones...

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A few for #WildflowerHour around Porter Clough, Sheffield today.

A farm’s roadside bale storage area shows evidence of some waste tipping with a few #GardenEscapes including what appears to be the variegated form of Yellow Archangel (Lamium galeobdolon subsp. argentatum).

Lungwort (pulmonaria officinalis) in flower this week on the verge of a local car park (N. Hants) for the #GardenEscapes challenge. #wildflowerhour

Cyclamen flowers that have white petals with dark purple bases and round leaves, among nettles, cleavers and mosses

Nice little cyclamen (Cyclamen coum) #GardenEscapes for #wildflowerhour in a park in West Earlham, Norwich

Blue anemone #GardenEscapes on the verge just outside the village. Not 100% sure yet if Anemone blanda or A apennina (opinions welcome!) - leaves are sparsely hairy underneath so leaning towards A apennina. #wildflowerhour

A collage of four plant photos: Top - Glory-of-the-Snow and Daffodil, Below - Greater Periwinkle and Alexanders.

On an embankment made with imported garden soil by Worts' Causway #Cambridge here are :
Glory-of-the-Snow and Daffodil,
Greater Periwinkle and Alexanders
#WildFlowerHour #GardenEscapes (although the last is allegedly an escape from the Roman Empire).

Periwinkle flowers

Sweet Purple Violet Flowers

Two #GardenEscapes spotted in Cambridgeshire for this week's #WildFlowerHour
#Periwinkle #SweetPurpleViolet
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Primroses growing in ivy. and other plants. The picture is criss-crossed with dead stalks. The flowers are in the lower part of the picture. Bottom left very bright yellow primula flowers. Diagonally above them pale yellow primroses. to the right pinkish primroses and farther right pale yellow primroses. The bottom right corner has part of the metal fence through which I took the photo.

I nearly forgot this photo from Wednesday. One plant is so bright I wondered at the time whether it might be a garden escape growing near the railway #wildFlowerHour #GardenEscapes

Another example of the problems caused by #GardenEscapes
Here, the native Barren Strawberry is just able to push through the tough rootstock of the invasive Red Valerian (but for how much longer?) Second 📷 shows it growing with a native companion, Wild Thyme.
#wildflowerhour
Warton Crag

For tonights challenge :
Mahonia, daffodils, skunk cabbage and Japanese kerria all growing in the wild
#WildflowerHour
#GardenEscapes

Check out our Definitions page to find out what terms such as naturalised, alien, native etc. really mean:
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These #GardenEscapes by @s4r4h-l.bsky.social look like they're naturalised so I think they 'count' for #WildFlowerHour!

Some pretty flowering currant in the woods east Scotland #wildflowerhour #gardenescapes

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Well, #gardenescapes - managed four on today's #Stroud walk - marigold, grape hyacinth, snowflake and, apparently, scilla forbesii - as well as some bangingly pink polyanthus in the woods #wildflowerhour

Snakehead fritillary

Snakehead fritillary

For today's #Wildflowerhour challenge, have these snakehead fritillary
originally escaped from gardens? They are in my local ancient wood and now there are two clumps so are they ‘naturalised’? #GardenEscapes @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Grape hyacinth growing in the ancient Corbet Wood, Grinshill

This Grape Hyacinth in Corbet Wood, Grinshill stubbornly refused to get in focus... despite several attempts! There were once several quarry workers cottages nearby, and traces of their gardens still remain today - which might explain its presence here:

#WildflowerHour #GardenEscapes #Shropshire 💜

A photo of the flowers of Purple Toothwort appearing from under a black boarded fence covered in green moss.

Caught in the act! Purple Toothwort escaping under a black pitch covered wooden fence on Robinson Crusoe Island, Sheep's Green #Cambridge. Host tree must be behind somewhere. #WildFlowerHour #GardenEscapes (although evidence suggests it was pushed out of the #BotanicGarden as an experiment!)

Dark blue petals without a big white patch at the base. White in middle is the filaments. Hadn't seen it at large before.

Same plant showing pair of leaves.

This was today in Uffington churchyard and might be the same but has more white at the base of the petals and just a single flower. I think of forbesii as paler blue so not sure what it is

Scilla sardensis (Lesser Glory-of-the-snow) under trees on little patch of green near our place in Shrewsbury. Last pic may be the same or perhaps not, from Uffington. #wildflowerhour #gardenescapes

Cherry Laurel and purple Primrose in Galway for #WildflowerHour #GardenEscapes

Daffodils, Snowdrops and Winter Aconites in the neighbouring paddock, with Daffodils and Bluebells on the ditch side. #GardenEscapes for #wildflowerhour

Double daffodils growing on mossy ground below a hedge beside a field

A clump of daffodils on the right, stinging nettles and a lesser celandine growing in grass on the left. The daffodils have bright yellow trumpets and pale yellow petals, which point forwards.

The daffodils from the previous picture have taller daffodils on the right with petals almost at right angles to the trumpets. Lesser celandine flowers in the foreground.

Daffodils for #WildflowerHour #GardenEscapes. Centre picture assumed native daffs with an escape nearby as seen in 3rd picture #NatureWriting in alt text

A plant with small, pale blue, 5-petalled flowers. Its leaves are long and thin and moderately hairy.

A #GardenEscapes Forgetmenot. I think Field Forgetmenot with the small flowers. At the foot of a wall by a road in Lydney yesterday. #WildflowerHour