A bank of gorse bushes extending across the photo from left (closest) to right. Its spiny branches, which spray out, are in full bloom and covered with bright yellow flowers. The sky above is clear and bright blue.

“When the gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of season.”

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Although this isn't a recent photo, the gorse around here is looking just as glorious at the moment.

#SundayYellow #WildflowerHour #BSBI #BloomScrolling #FlowersOfBluesky #ECK #EastCoastKin

Greater Stitchwort with 10 white petals and yellow stamens and sepals. In amongst grass and nettles

Ground-ivy with little purple flowers and hairy jagged edges leaves

A pink Fumitories species which I haven't identified. It has a series of long thin flowers which are pink with a deeper colour at the top

White tree blossoms

Lots to enjoy while running errands (or rather walking!) including Greater Stitchwort and Ground-ivy. Walked the long way round to the library for change of scene which had added bonus of 2 unexpected Cetti's Warblers 🙂 #WildflowerHour #ActiveTravel

Toothwort fest! Exploring a new woodland today with @nenature.bsky.social and delighted to find four healthy clumps of Lathraea squamaria beneath Hazel and various Prunus. Always a treat. #wildflowerhour

What a year for Red Deathnettle! It’s carpeting lawns all over my neighbourhood and absolutely buzzing with bumblebees. It looks gorgeous alongside bulbs like Grape-hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum) and Glory-of-the-snow (Chionodoxa luciliae) #WildflowerHour

Unfurling leaves of Large-leaved Lime at Bedford Purlieus NNR, clothed with silvery hairs, with distinctive raised veins on the underside of the leaf. Often planted, this huge coppice stool is probably native here and grows with abundant Small-leaved Lime.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

The delicate pink colours of a flowering head of Lady’s smock. An early spring wild flower.

#WildFlowerHour
(A bit early)
Q. Is there a finer pink colour than that of Lady’s Smock?
A. No. It’s a rhetorical question.
Photographed on Good Friday 2026

Geranium!
#wildflowerhour
#flowers
#bloomscroll

Inside-out Flower (Vancouveria hexandra)
#wildflowers #wildflowerhour

One of my favourite flowers #Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara) the flower, colour and Latin name 💚. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#wildflowerhour

Good Friday grass in the churchyard - Luzula campestris, low growing and distinctive plant found in grasslands

In the church graveyard, for Good Friday, Luzula campestris, commonly known as Good Friday grass (its rush family). Always seems to be flowering for Good Friday! #wildflowerhour #wilderchurches

"Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose,
A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring!"
William Allingham
#wildflowerhour #nature #goodfriday #Easter

Noticing #JohnClare #poem from 1822 for this Sundays #wildflowerhour #CowslipChallenge

Purple flower in fallen oak leaves, Hepatica nobilis (liverwort)

Liverwort under the oaks (Hepatica nobilis) #Dalsland #wildflowerhour

Lovely to see so many orchids at Dancing Ledge area today #orchids #dorset #wildflowerhour

Dogwood flowers in bloom. Mountain dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)

Native Dogwood Flowers in bloom for #TreeFlowers
#Wildflowerhour

Blackthorn flowers

Damson flowers

The upside to Blackthorn taking over the garden. Plus Damson, Amelanchier lamarckii and Magnolia. A happy time of year #WildflowerHour (late as usual 😂)

small bright yellow flowers, somewhat start shaped.

Celandines. March 2026

#celandines #flowers #wildflowers #wildflowerhour #BloomScrolling #nature #sonyalpha #photography

Have you seen a Cowslip in bloom this year? This week’s challenge is to find one and share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday using the hashtag #CowslipChallenge. Happy flower hunting! 💛

A tiny plant with lobed leaves and small white flowers with five petals on a muddy pavement.

The first Rue-leaved Saxifrage is in flower. My favourite pavement plant. Today, at least.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #pavementplants

Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale) in full, fragrant, flame-coloured bloom today. These are the male catkins, the females are smaller & (usually) on separate bushes.
#TreeFlowers? 🌳Well, that depends on how tall you are!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social #Wildflowerhour @peatlandslife.bsky.social @manxpeat.bsky.social

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) by a roadside ditch.

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) by a roadside ditch.

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) by a roadside ditch.

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) by a roadside ditch.

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) and Primroses (Primula vulgaris) by a roadside ditch near Wymondham, Norfolk.

Seen on today's bike ride with @vannabartlett.bsky.social.

#WildFlowerHour

Cowslips, Primula veris.

Cowslip, Primula veris.

Cowslips, Primula veris.

Morley St. Botolph churchyard, Norfolk, on today's bike ride with @vannabartlett.bsky.social.

#WildFlowerHour

Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis.

Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis.

Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis.

Rust fungus Phragmidium fragariae on a leaf of Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis). View of underside.

Plenty of Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis, in flower in the Norfolk churchyards @vannabartlett.bsky.social and I visited today, including some infected with the rust fungus Phragmidium fragariae.

#WildFlowerHour #Fungi #FungiFriends

The greenish flower of Moschatel or Torn-hall-clock, the five flowers arranged neatly to look like a town-hall clock with a roof.

The chocolate brown telia of the rust Puccinia adoxae on the leaves of Moschatel

Moschatel flowering at Morkery Wood (VC53) yesterday morning, with telia of Puccinia adoxae on it leaves.
Part of a formerly large population, I was sad to see that much of its woodland habitat had been recently felled in a very heavy-handed way...

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Starry white blossoms of Wild Plum/Bullace shine against dark ivy-clad Ash tree trunk. Blue sky beyond the still-bare twigs of Field Maple trees

Blue sky above sunny old lane with steep bank to the left side. Shadows of mature Field Maple & Ash trees fall across the lane. Starry white blossom of Wild Plum/Bullace in a tall ivy-clad hedgerow

Blue sky and white blossom of Wild Plum/Bullace in a tall ivy-clad hedgerow. Mature large Field Maple tree to the right

In a round white bowl full of little dusky blue spherical plum-like fruits likely - Wild plum/Bullace? Picked in the lane, photo taken September 2025

Avoiding news to focus on beloved #treeflowers 🙏🕊️
Wild plum/Bullace? In the lane on a blue sky day last week 🤍🩵💙💜
Fruit pic from last September 😋
#wildflowerhour #peace #bloomscrolling 🌱

The hanging clusters of yellow-y green flowers of the sycamore tree, with some leaves opening in the background

Lastly and lately, #TreeFlowers for #WildflowerHour : Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus or an Seiceamóir - there was a buff-tailed bumblebee queen visiting the flowers but she wasn't waiting around for a photo!

A flower of the Barren Strawberry plant, with five very widely spaced petals, visible sepals and dull-ish green trefoil toothed leaves

Another bloom for yesterday's #WildflowerHour, Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis or Sú talún bréige) is in flower in the ditches now in Co. Limerick

Delicate white flowers of Wild Garlic, six narrow petals,looks like a star!

Ramsons (Allium ursinum, or its Irish name: Creamh) in bloom ( and in scent!) under the shade of a tree in Co. Limerick yesterday for #WildflowerHour

Well the spur doesn't look pale enough to be Common Dog Violet, and although I can't see the sepals, I would hazard a guess as it to being Early Dog Violet, since your other finds are all woodland plants. Here is a little #WildflowerHour infographic.
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picture of purple wildflowers surrounded by plant life.

picture of purple wildflowers surrounded by plant life.

We know we're late for #wildflowerhour but can we say we're obsessed with beginnings? Especially in our gorgeous PNW backyard 🌿

If you want to learn how to start an LLC, there's no better time to get started. #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #wildflowers