What can you find flowering in a hedgerow? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Have a good rummage in a hedge (get ready for the funny looks 👀) & share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #HedgerowChallenge! Happy hedge-diving!
Close-up of the blue berries of a Mahonia bush also called Oregon grape.
While most people value Oregon Grape (Mahonia Aquifolium) for its medicinal benefits, it also said to offer spiritual benefits, including the ability to strengthen boundaries and ward off negativity. 💙
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A wonderful #wildflowerhour tonight, thank you very much for sharing your lovely finds and special thanks to those of you that took part in this week’s #HedgerowChallenge! Keep a look out for the next challenge & hope you all have a good week. Happy flower spotting!
Queen of the hedgerows has to be Queen Anne’s Lace, Cow Parsley or - as my mum used to call it in Northamptonshire - Keck. Whatever you call it, it’s fabulous #HedgerowChallenge #wildflowerhour @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany
A cluster of white flowers with 5 petals each.
Common Hawthorn, aka Mayflower, aka Quickset, aka probably several other local names. In the hedge around the car park at the football this afternoon. #WildflowerHour #HedgerowChallenge
The blue flowers of alkanet, with raindrops
White deadnettles with raindrops
Jack in the hedge. Compulsory for the hedgerow challenge
Damp looking herb robert with cute striped pink flower
More sogginess for #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge
Alkanet, white dead nettle, jack in the hedge and herb robert
Pale pink ladies smock next to a puddle
Springer spaniel, puddle, bluebells, buttercups and cow parsley in this hedge
A very wet buttercup
Red campion (it’s definitely pink) with raindrops
In case anyone didn’t know, it’s been pretty wet in Gloucestershire this week. Here are some soggy offerings for the #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge
Ladies smock, a hedgerow, buttercup, red campion
A low, bushy plant with lots of greenish-yellow flowers.
Not the best phone snap I've ever taken - Alexanders from Exeter during the week for the #HedgerowChallenge. On a footpath near Digby & Sowton station, in less than ideal light. #WildflowerHour
Gorse bush near a field
Hawthorn flowers just starting to open locally
Cow parsley with very hairy purplish bracts
Gorse hedge along with Cow Parsley and Hawthorn found for
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Pink and mainly blue Bluebells
Pink and mainly blue Bluebells found unexpectedly looking for
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Two Dandelion flowers, one yellow & one a seed clock
Cutest Dandelions cuddling close, flower and seedclock.
Double trouble!
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A bundle of hawthorn flowers, white flowers with five petals, a green hue and pistil in the center and pink stamens are growing among green leaves in a bush. Some flowers are still in bud shaped like little white balls.
Overview shot of the green bush filled with clusters of white hawthorn flowers.
Hawthorn flowers for the #HedgerowChallenge and #wildflowerhour ❀
An irregular hedge of gorse with yellow flowers.
#WildFlowerHour #HedgerowChallenge Gorse forming a hedge along a ditch in the #Suffolk #Brecks.
A view of a distant row of pine trees across a green field.
#WildFlowerHour #HedgerowChallenge A pine row (Scots Pine windbrake) in #Suffolk #Brecks. A11 on right. Trees a long way off so couldn't see if they were flowering.
The gorgeousy starry Greater Stitchwort, Rabelera holostea (formerly Stellaria holostea), at the bottom of a hedgerow in Kent for the #WildflowerHour #HedgerowChallenge.
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm, it’s time for #wildflowerhour & the #HedgerowChallenge. Please share your pics of your finds & let’s have a planty party! Mystery plants? Please use #WildflowerID to summon help from friendly botanists!
Zigzag Clover, Bush Vetch and Greater Stitchwort
Hawthorn, Shining Crane's-bill, Red Campion, Bush Vetch, Dandelions and Greater Stitchwort.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Quick trip to Musley Lane late pm #HedgerowChallenge #Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Wildflowerhour #HedgerowChallenge Three- cornered Garlic, Allium triquetrum frequent in the hedgebanks around Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
What can you find flowering in a hedgerow? That’s the challenge this week from @wildflower_hour! Have a good rummage in a hedge (get ready for the funny looks 👀) & share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #HedgerowChallenge! Happy hedge-diving!
In descending order of height, Wych Elm (?), Blackthorn, Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) & Coltsfoot all looking gorgeous on a bright, fresh spring afternoon along the Cut-off Channel south of Eriswell.
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Wayfaring Tree, Viburnum lantana, at Croydon's Hutchinson's Bank reserve. #hedgerowchallenge #wildflowerhour
