Botany recorder for Whitby Naturalists Club with a general interest in the natural world and conservation.
Wendy English
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Goldilocks, the woodland buttercup; fragile and somewhat misshapen. One of our Ancient Woodland Indicators.
#WildFlowerHour #ButtercupChallenge
Not many orchids in flower here in N Yorks at present, Fly Orchids practically over, and Northern Marsh just starting to come out.
#WildflowerHour
A Whitby special for #WildFlowerHour: Hoary Cress, Lepidium draba grows abundantly on the coastal cliffs around Whitby. A member of the Cabbage Family.
Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum, now prolific on the coast round Whitby, with the inevitable rust fungus, Puccinia smyrnii.
#wildflowerhour
The Petty Whin in Jugger Howe Beck is hanging on, but very few flowers and spindly plants this year. Conditions are very dry.
#WildflowerHour
Our @mariposanature.bsky.social Rhodes tour ends tomorrow after a fabulous week of orchid hunting. The incredible number & variety has to be seen to be believed! Thanks to @dunnjons.bsky.social & @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social for site research & expertise. Good weather, good company, stunning scenery...
Wild daffodils @northyorkmoors.org.uk aren't confined to Farndale. Looking good this year in Scar Wood.
A lovely display of Cowslips and some unexpected Field Mousear in YWT Brockadale on a quick visit on my way back to Whitby today.
#wildflowerhour @ynuorg.bsky.social
Confusing colony of orchids growing on a @northyorkmoors.org.uk verge. Marsh orchids in this area are usually Northern - but these look different.
@thenewgalaxy.bsky.social @dunnjons.bsky.social
Ivy-leaved Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus hederaceus, a fairly #TinyPlant for #WildflowerHour. In a muddy hollow on the North York Moors.
