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Wishing our lovely #WildflowerHour folks a Merry Christmas, thank you for sharing your #FestivePlants! Lovely too to see all those winter tens! I wonder if they will still be in flower next week for the start of @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt! Let’s meet again next Sunday to find out!!!
Some dark green leaves of Holly in front of orange Stinking Iris berries.
Local Holly trying to make up for its lack of berries by posing in front of Stinking Iris.
#WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants
Mistletoe, mostly 'leaves'
Mistletoe berries
#FestivePlants for #WildflowerHour - Mistletoe by torchlight!
Pink white cluster of blossom on bare twigs
#festiveplants challenge can I sneak this blossom in from the park ? I’ve got wintersweet in the garden and self sown primroses too
Sunlit Holly with bright red berries
Festive holly
#wildflowerhour #festiveplants #Yorkshire @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A blue Greater periwinkle flower surrounded by beautiful dark glossy green leaves.
These Greater periwinkles always flower around Christmas in Ely and are a nice sparkle of wintery blue. #FestivePlants #WildflowerHour
Got excited by the #wildflowerhour #festiveplants theme and may have cheated slightly!!
What's more festive than Ivy in a Santa hat sitting on a huge Advent calendar chocolate?!
With massive thanks to @mariposanature.bsky.social for the lovely advent calendar prize.
Fearnóg/Alder. Love seeing the redpolls, siskins and goldfinches feeding on the cones in Winter #KillarneyNationalPark
#FestivePlants #WildflowerHour
Clusters of reddish-orange seeds of Stinking Iris
Silvery oval flattened pods of Honesty
A real shortage of berries locally, so the orange-red seeds of Stinking Iris and a silvery seedpod of Honesty were the most festive plants I came across on yesterday's perambulation...
#wildflowerhour #festiveplants @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Two photos of pine trees at night. The one on the left in red light, the one on the right in blue.
If you've got pine trees you can make them festive with coloured lights. Here are Pinus nigra ssp. nigra in red
& Pinus nigra ssp. salzmannii in blue during #Cambridge #BotanicGarden 'Botanic Lights' event. #FestivePlants
Three pink Red dead nettle flowers that look like little people, surrounded by green leaves.
The Three Wise Red Dead Nettle Flowers. #FestivePlants #WildflowerHour
A close up of Mistletoe berries with shrivelled red berries of the Sorbus host hanging on top.
Mistletoe berries on a Sorbus tree decorating itself with fallen red berries from its host. #WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants
White Dead-nettle flowers channelling East 17's 1994 Xmas vibes.....check out the white coats and furry hoods!!
Merry Christmas!
#wildflowerhour #festiveplants
Flowering today, Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium, White - dead Nettle Lamium album, and Dandelion Taraxacum officinale #wildflowerhour
#festiveplants
Butcher's Broom was also looking quite festive in the winter sunshine. Tiny little flowers but huge red bauble-like fruits. Woodland near Plumpton Green, East Sussex #festiveplants #wildflowerhour
I think ‘snow’berries might fit the festive challenge too. I spotted these snowberries growing through a fence this week. It did amuse me 😄
#FestivePlants #WildflowerHour
A close up of a flower of Butcher's Broom.
Up close a flower of Butcher's Broom can be quite festive! #WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants
Two close up photos of red berries.
These are the haws of Hybrid Cockspur Thorn, Crataegus × lavallei almost naturalised in the local park. Alphonse Lavallée would have it the the haws would last the winter
as birds didn't like them but not much evidence of that this year. #WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants 🍒🏘️ #Cambridge
A panel of photos of twelve flowering plants. From left to right, top to bottom: red dead nettle, primrose, winter flowering heather, snowdrops, viburnum, white dead nettle, dandelion, gorse, stinking hellebore, common daisy, red valerian, feverfew.
Bright red japonica (quince) flower against a background of bare grey twigs and one yellow leaf
A stellar week for #WildflowerHour in Yorkshire (IDs in the alt text, slightly horrified to find my first snowdrops of the winter in full bloom) plus a bright red japonica for #FestivePlants 🌺
The holly and the ivy... For this week's #wildflowerhour #FestivePlants challenge
Lovely to see the ivy fruits being enjoyed by a handsome blackbird too
A close up on yellow-green male flowers of Mistltoe.
Spare a thought at Christmas for lonely male Mistletoe. Being without berries it doesn't feature much unless collected to background female sprigs. #WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants
Good evening. This is a fun challenge. Today I found some amazing trees full of mistletoe at Claremont NT. Yesterday I found a hedge of Ivy berries and some Holly berries #FestivePlants #WildflowerHour
More fruits than flowers on the Ivy at this time of year but I did find one late flower for the #festiveplants challenge. In woodland, East Sussex #wildflowerhour
PS I think it would rise to the #FestivePlants challenge if sprayed with silver or gold paint. It's rather beautiful just as it is, though.
Clockwise from top left: Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), chickweed (Stellaria media), winter speedwell (Veronica persica), shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris).
Clockwise from top left: Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens), pineappleweed (Matricaria discoidea), daisy (Bellis perennis), shaggy solider (Galinsoga quadriradiata)
Japanese anemone (Eriocapitella hupehensis)
Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium)
My last chance to properly do @wildflowerhour.bsky.social as I go back to Tasmania after pantomime. I just about scraped #thewinterten, with a couple of naturalized escapes, but oregon grape at least looks superficially enough like holly if you squint to be amongst #FestivePlants! #WildflowerHour
A photo of Butcher's Broom plant with dark green 'leaves' and red berries next to another of dead twig of the plant.
Butcher's Broom with its bright red fruit is amongst the most #FestivePlants even when dead and dried out! #WildFlowerHour
Two #FestivePlants for #WildflowerHour. A probably hybrid Cotoneaster and a self seeded Wild Rose in the garden.
