Some recent butterflies for #WildWebsWednesday Holly Blue on Bramble, Painted Lady on Hemlock Water-dropwort and Brimstone on Rough Hawkbit
Cley Hill botanical visit, so checked cattle trough over the hedge for Duckweeds. No plants but 4 plume moths (2 pictured) and a wasp? Ichneumon? casualties, and other lives and deaths once I studied the photo.
The first of today’s #ChurchyardFlowers at Christchurch in Bradford-on-Avon; Rough Hawkbit mostly, but quite a few carefully marked and protected Pyramidal Orchids #WildflowerHour
Four-leaved Allseed Polycarpon tetraphyllum feeling so confident this year that it’s not only popping up in new locations but also taking grass in its stride in Bradford-on-Avon
Not a very exciting morning botanically but good to see my first Scarlet Tiger moth of the year in Monkton Farleigh #teammoth
Late entry for #LawnFlowers presumably self-sown from containers/baskets outside almshouses in Trowbridge #WildflowerHour - brightened my shopping trip 🙂
#ChurchyardFlowers at Monkton Farleigh on a damp and windy day: Ox-eye Daisies, buds of Sweet Chestnut, Red Valerian and Nipplewort with a Sowthistle or two in the overflow cemetery #WildflowerHour
Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k... #otd
Not many #ChurchyardFlowers at these two! St Mary’s chapel, Tory (apolitical!), Bradford-on-Avon, where you may be able to spot Herb Robert at the top of the drainpipe 🙂, and the over-tidy Saxon church where someone neglected to weed out one Ivy-leaved Toadflax and a Petty Spurge. #WildflowerHour
The best #ChurchyardFlowers locally for biodiversity at Holy Trinity, with Hedge Woundwort, Green Alkanet, the ubiquitous Balkan Spurge, the paler version of Stinking Iris, and an explosion of Catsear with Ox-eye Daisy, plus walls (not shown) with waterfalls of Yellow Corydalis #WildflowerHour
