As ever late for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour . Favourite plant finds this year were the tiny lesser twayblade in Yorkshire, thyme broomrape in the Burren and creeping lady's-tresses in Norfolk. #favouritefinds #favouriteplants #ukorchids #broomrape
Photo shows half of a Dandelion flowerhead on the left, with a hoverfly perched on the right hand side of it. Behind this is mainly green leaves.
#WildflowerHour One of my #FavouritePlants, photographed this week, is the Dandelion. It's a wonderful Spring flower, but it will flower again and again where it's mowed. It's bright and cheerful, and a great #pollinatorpal, too. This one is providing food for a nice little Hoverfly.
Two #FavouritePlants from #WiltsBotSoc weekend in Suffolk/Norfolk Fiddleneck from Knettishall Heath and Tephroseris palustris (can’t remember common name and running out of charge on train 😬) from Dickleburgh #WildflowerHour
Two #ByTheSea #FavouritePlants Early Spider orchid at Worth Matravers (ish) and Thrift at Slade in Co. Wexford #WildflowerHour
Sticky groundsel (Senecio viscosus) with some Vervain (Verbena officinalis), Hackney pavement, for #wildflowerhour
(pavement plants are #favouriteplants)
#wildflowerhour. Some of our #favouriteplants of the year. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social Wild onion on the river Carron. Squill on Iona. A first for us. Birds Eye primrose. Part of the Teesdale Assemblage. And Glenshee Globeflower with a view. A first for us in Glenshee.
Yellow Bird's Nest, Monotropa hypopitys, in another nearby woodland #FavouritePlants #Wildflowerhour
Starved Wood Sedge, Carex depauperata, in a nearby woodland this summer #FavouritePlants #Wildflowerhour
#favouriteplants of the year for @wildflowerhour. Gosh. We had a few. It was a great botany year. So many lovely plants and some firsts for us. And for some locations. This post is the lovely mountain avens. Seen both on Glenshee and in the Teesdale exclosures.. #wildflowerhour
Tall light pink speckled orchid flower sprays against background of grass, foliage and buttercups
Dark pink orchid (?pyramidal) against grassland background.
More #FavouritePlants #orchids from this year - Dactylorhiza and Anacamptis? #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Bright yellow king cups (large buttercups) with green foliage against dark soil
For this year’s #FavouritePlants #WildFlowerHour I’m struggling to choose but these local kingcups were so cheerful! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Bramble -- a tip that had must have started rooting? I am imagining my head growing roots, my feet fusing & leafing, as the sap reverses, but of course these are just tales of what it wd be like for me to be a bramble, not real bramble news. #FavouritePlants #WildflowerHour
Snowed in, but with Daphne bholua scenting the whole garden I'm happy to stay put and breathe deeply #favouriteplants http://t.co/yjr6TbCc
