...while insects included Eupeodes corollae and Nomada zonata, as hundreds of 7-spot Ladybirds and Velvet Mites clambered on the bursting Alexanders.
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Blog of yesterday's #WildEssex walk to Cockaynes Reserve. Spring in abundance!
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A mix of lichen species on a sea wall
A mosaic of #lichens species on the Seawall at #Maldon Promenade today! 🌱🍄🟫
The fiery Rusavskia elegans is in the centre
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#WildEssex at its best and most tranquil!
#WildEssex at its best! Nowhere does brownfield like we do brownfield, and the recombinant plant communities are so exciting, multicultural mixes from around the world!
First blog of the year, and as always a write up of our #WildEssex New Year Plant Hunt...
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Blog of our #WildEssex walk yesterday in Wivenhoe Park: fungi, fruits and foliage, with added insects!
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Blog of our latest short break, this one to the wilds of the Lee Valley...
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A bit late but for #WildFlowerHour, Trailing St. John's-wort (Hypericum humifusum) and Tormentil (Potentilla erecta) at Chigwell Row Wood LNR Heath, #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
New blog of our #wildessex walk at Harwich and Landguard yesterday
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Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) at Roughtalley's Wood #WildEssex for #WildFlowerHour
Two scramblers for #WildFlowerHour Sweet-briar (Rosa rubiginosa) and White Bryony (Bryonia dioica) near Morton #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Flowering Curled Pondweed (Potamogeton crispa) for #WildFlowerHour at Blackmore village pond #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Yellow Pimpernel (Lysimachia nemorum) for #WildFlowerHour at Roughtalley's Wood #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildFlowerHour - Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus minor) and Common Vetch (Vicia sativa subsp sativa) for #WildFlowerShow #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
For #WildFlowerHour Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Germander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) and Mouse-ear-hawkweed (Pilosella officinarum) #WildFlowerShow #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) for #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social at Mill Green Common #WildEssex
Rather boring this week for #WildFlowerHour, #speedwell -pale form of Germander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) in Writtle, All Saints churchyard, #WildEssex
#HighUpPlants for #WildFlowerHour in Essex wasn't easy! So, here's Heath Dogs-violet, scarce in #WildEssex instead, taken this week in vc18. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Pink Bluebell (Hyacinthoides x massartiana), Ramsons (Allium ursinum) and Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) for #WildFlowerHour at #WoodlandTrust The Mores #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Yellow archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon) and Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) for #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social Weald Country Park #WildEssex
Broom (Cytisus scoparius) for #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social taken while listening to nightingales on Danbury Common #WildEssex
New blog just posted of our #WildEssex walk today in Wivenhoe
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Thyme-leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) at Norton Heath Common, #WildEssex for #TinyPlants at #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Cowslip (Primula veris), False Oxlip (P. x polyantha) and Primrose (P. vulgaris) - just visible, in the same shot for #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social Churchyard near Writtle #WildEssex
Drifts of Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) at #WoodlandTrust The Mores, #WildEssex #WildFlowerHour
A roadside Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis), Doddinghurst #WildEssex #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Probably Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) samarae for #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #TreeFlowers (or rather #TreeSeeds), Doddinghurst #WildEssex
A mature Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) in full bloom, Weald Country Park, Brentwood and Sweet Violet (Viola odorata var. odorata) roadside verge for #WildFlowerHour #WildEssex @bsbibotany.bsky.social
New blog of our latest jaunt to Maldon. Not far from home but seen with fresh eyes on foot and with two nights' stay...
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