There was beer .... I'm better at botany than drinking = balance! (or maybe not, depending upon how many pubs Alex plans for next #NYPH)

A profusely flowering Gorse (Ulex europaeus) forming part of a local hedge for #wildflowerhour - found on my #nyph

Great to work with our friends at @metoffice.gov.uk @climatecentreuk.bsky.social & @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social to spread the word about how climate change is impacting plant flowering times.
Huge thanks to everyone who took part in #NewYearPlantHunt & collected vital data!
#CitizenScience
#NYPH

Huge thanks & congrats to everyone who braved foul weather to take part in #NewYearPlantHunt!
Commiserations to everyone for whom snow stopped play: we all felt your pain!
Reminder that if you have any #NYPH records that you haven't submitted yet, please do so (via App or email) by midnight tomorrow

First post on this dedicated to the #NewYearPlantHunt
We were blessed with blue skies while moseying around the Muckross Peninsula in KNP while searching for plants in flower for the 2026 #NYPH Six of us recorded 42 species in flower including obligatory Arbutus unedo #NYPH @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yes, sadly I don't think it's flowering at the moment so can't be counted for #NYPH .... but you're not the first person (or even 2nd/3rd/4th/5th etc) to mistake the white leaves for flowers

Stinking Helebore, Groundsel, Periwinkle, Nipplewort, White Deadnettle, Hedge Mustard, Red Deadnettle, Smooth Sowthistle, Petty Spurge, Yarrow, Primrose, Ragwort, Daisy, Green Alkanet, Annual Meadow-grass, Shepherd’s Purse, Herb Robert, Burnet Saxifrage & Common Field Speedwell.

Late for #WildflowerHour - #NYPH results. IDs in Alt text

Some lovely plants seen while out #NYPH ing this week: seasonal delights including Mibora minima Early Sandgrass & a yellow ovary form of Galanthus x grandiflorus, and the less expected two sspp of Scleranthus annuus Annual Knawel & Fumaria muralis Ramping-fumitory in full flower #WildFlowerHour

Top to bottom, left to right: Eastern Sowbread / cyclamen, Intermediate Periwinkle var. alba, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Creeping Comphrey, Musk Mallow; Common Carrot, Ragwort, Greater Periwinkle, Red Dead-nettle, Sun Spurge; Red Clover, Field forget-me-not, Black Nightshade; Hawkweed Oxtongue, Field Speedwell, False Mayweed, Shepherd's Purse, Yarrow; Dandelion, Daisy, Common Chickweed, White Clover, Herb Robert.

On New Year's Day I cycled around Cambridge and found 23 wild or naturalised flowers in bloom!
Given the snow that's forecast for later this week, I might need to 'borrow' some of these to make #TheWinter10 for next Sunday's #WildflowerHour 🙂
#NYPH #NewYearPlantHunt
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Gorse flowers

Scentless Mayweed flowers

Bush Vetch leaves and flowers

Red Clover leaves and one flowering head

Good 2026 start to #WildFlowerHour in #RoeValley 1st January, myself & scout partner (Skip): 13 found. Surprised lots of Bush Vetch & Water Forget-me-not
Official #BSBI #NYPH cancelled due to ice #BSBI
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
#NewYearPlantHunt

Two whites for #WildFlowerHour found on my #NYPH - Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) and White Campion (Silene latifolia). @bsbibotany.bsky.social

21 sp of plant in flower today - Chickerell Down woods, and surrounding area - 4.1.26 Flowers pictured: white Red Valerian, Daisy, Oxeye Daisy, Feverfew, Willow, Bristly Oxtongue, Dandelion, Common Ragwort, Gorse, Red Dead-nettle. Flowers seen, not pictured: Smooth Sow-thistle, Shepherd's Purse, Hazel catkins, Cock's Foot, Annual Meadow Grass, Yarrow, Petty Spurge, Winter Heliotrope, Wall Barley, Groundsel, Wild Carrot. Other pictures: Large spider. Friendly cat who climbed on my knee for cuddles.

The final day of #NewYearPlantHunt.

My 4th walk = 21 sp in flower (list in Alt). Willow in flower was new for me.
Nearly all flowers white or yellow today, even Red Valerian!

Bonuses en-route - some great birds incl Yellow Browed Warbler & I had lovely cat cuddles!

Looking forward to #NYPH 2027!

What a great idea - a #NYPH Norwich Pub Crawl!
I have very happy (slightly hazy) memories off an epic week-long pub crawl for Norwich City Of Ale beer festival. Still have my souvenir badges for completing all 7 routes. 😁🍻
Just clocked the year on them....2015.....seems I'm overdue a visit!!!! 😅

Gravestones in the snow

Trees, graves and snow

Snowman

Frozen ragwort

We did the Earlham cemetery New Year Plant Hunt this morning. Beautiful day for it but tricky to spot plants under the snow! 17 species spotted. #nyph @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Day 3 of #NewYearPlantHunt: >1300 surveys, >17,000 records, 597 species recorded!
In tonight's round-up:
@commonbynature.bsky.social reports from NE England, @bramblebotanist.bsky.social braves the snow & a shout-out for #NYPH co-founders Tim Rich & @sarahwhild.bsky.social!
bsbi.org/blog/2026/01...

The hardy division of #NorfolkFloraGroup shunned a ‘yellow warning’ of ice and snow in favour of the yellow flowers of Buddle.. & 99 other flowering species! The Norfolk uplands produced Fumarias, Muehlenbeckia & Rubus vestitus in unseasonably excellent condition. #NYPH @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Day 2 of #NewYearPlantHunt: >800 surveys; >12,000 records; 522 species in bloom.
In tonight's round-up: @danryannature.bsky.social reports from Cornwall; #12daysWild; wide media coverage following our joint @metoffice.gov.uk press release & 1st ever hybrid #NYPH x Pub Crawl
bsbi.org/blog/2026/01...

Nineth cider of the day on the #NYPH pub crawl in Norwich and 91 species under our belt. Some great plants - a luxurious Pseudofumaria lutea mistaken for a hanging basket a fav.. scaling the castle.. and some great pubs. Top effort #NorfolkFloraGroup #NYPH Same next January

If your plant-spotting skills are as good, then join us for the 2027 #NYPH :)

A local @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NYPH around Hook End #Essex finding 32 species and better than last year.

Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/environment/... Great article by Ajit Niranjan in @theguardian.com about the @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt #NYPH

Stachys arvensis (Field Woundwort) from above on the allotments. Not seen it here before.

Fumaria bastardii on G&A's allotments (not their plot). Not the best time of year to identify these but I have seen it there before and it looks right. F purpurea is in our front garden where it spread unassisted from.next door, where it is a frequent plant. Flowers on it very stunted and small at the moment

Viola odorata (Sweet Violet). This particular patch is reliably in flower on 1 Jan!

Traditional NYD #ParkRun (but Telford this year) with A then #NYPH locally with @janettem34.bsky.social @amanda-bug-girl.bsky.social & G. 31 spp (13 less than '25) with Stachys arvensis (found by G), Fumaria bastardii and purpurea the best. Usual patch of Viola odorata out. #wildflowerhour

Nadine recording sweet violet Viola odorata for the BSBI New Year Plant Hunt

A particularly large individidual of petty spurge Euphorbia peplus in flower

Close-up of white dead-nettle Lamium album in flower

Close-up of spurge laurel Daphne laureola in flower

A Happy New Year to all fellow #NewYearPlantHunt plant hunters! Nadine and I found 43 spp. in flower today in and around Wallingford, very similar to what we had in some previous years. We still need to upload our results, but that's a job for tomorrow. #NYPH

You could always ask @ghostofdatura.bsky.social to organise another trip to Norfolk for next years #NYPH ....

We're likely to return to Thetford for #NYPH 2027....

Don't forget - tomorrow sees the 1st ever #BSBI #NYPH - pub-crawl combo (at least that anyone can remember... (hic)). Looking forward to seeing everyone (including @norwichbirder.bsky.social on his local patch) for another great day of finding plants in flower!

Took very few photos on my #NYPH around the southern part of Bradford-on-Avon today. This Snapdragon was the showiest plant on my list of 49 species.

A bonus perk of doing a #NewYearPlantHunt is the other wildlife (fungi, bees, birds, the urban fox observing today's Leicester Hunt) you might see while looking for flowers.
One aim of #NYPH is to see how other wildlife might be impacted by changes in flowering times: more about this to follow ;-)

Bluebell leaves (green) emerging from dark green ivy and brown dry leaf litter

Single yellow dandelion flower central in long bright green blades of grass

Groundsel plant with small yellow flowers growing next to concrete pavement with moss, leaf litter

Petty Spurge bright green plant growing against a brick wall with moss

#NewYearPlantHunt #NYPH found some early bluebell foliage, a lone dandelion, some groundsel and some spurge, with #moss too of course. #UrbanPlants 🌱🌼