It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve found blooming in the last week from across Britain & Ireland, especially if they are #ChurchyardFlowers, the theme for this week’s challenge!
Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle in our Yorkshire village. Wouldn't look out of place in the Amazon...
#Beetles #Bugs @naturelark.bsky.social
Lovely Foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea, at Old Lodge NR in the Ashdown Forest. 🦊🧤
Things I like about this 24-spot Ladybird, Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata, that I met today:
a. It is tiny
b. It is hairy
c. It has a long, unpronounceable name
Our new book is out at the end of July!
Taking a wry & often unexpected angle on 72 British customs & rituals, it rejects 'Olde Worlde' nostalgia, telling instead a tale of evolution & cultural integration, and offering an inclusive & outward-looking story of who we are, & can be, as a nation.
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Pretty in pink - Cross-leaved Heath, Erica tetralix, and Bell Heather, Erica cinerea, at Old Lodge NR in the Ashdown Forest. 🩷
Surely one of the most apt flowers to find in a churchyard - Forget-me-not, Myosotis sylvatica. Growing in the churchyard of St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield. #WildflowerHour #ChurchyardFlowers
I paid a quick visit to Ellison's Pond in the Ashdown Forest the other day. I was happy to see an ovipositing Emperor dragonfly, but not so happy to see that the pond was full of the non-native and invasive Parrot's Feather.
Moira O'Donnell
I had been meaning to go and check on the Wall Bedstraw, Galium parisiense, at St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield, for some time. This week's #WildflowerHour #ChurchyardFlowers challenge therefore gave me the perfect excuse for a visit.
Dr Rebecca Warren
Moira O'Donnell
Moira O'Donnell
Moira O'Donnell
Moira O'Donnell
#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
