New dahlia. Princess Nadine possibly :)

Auchentiber Moss today with the Ayrshire BSBI group. Ravens, lizard, dragons, bugs and botanists. A lovely day in the sunshine. Love sneezewort. 2.8.26

Stroll to Snib's Cave. A proliferation of pink-flowered species, ravens, several butterflies (!), the first Cinnabar caterpillars I've seen in years, and a possible mink sighting. 27.7.26

Love the first visit of the day to the greenhouse. Just for these droplets of condensation that gather on the leaf edges.

One of my favourite of Laurent Chéhère’s Flying Houses.

Incoming tides, Stoer 2020 by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary landscape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt

This is a silver washed fritillary 😍it's particularly special because it's the valezina form, a rare form of the female #butterfly! Normally it's bright orange! Photographed by Ian Pratt this week at our nature reserve, Briddlesfood Woods, on the Isle of Wight.

'Sun salutation class, Galapagos Islands' by Photographer Sue Hollis #womensart #FridayFeeling

Garden :) (I know everyone hates buddleia, but I don't)

Nice stroll on Arran today. LOTS of orange raspberries... Massive pod of Common Dolphins seen feeding off the ferry on the way home. Lovely.

Amazing!

Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 4w ago

🦇 Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though... This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex (cont)

Lovely Ivy-leaved Bellflower: most records are from Wales, SW Ireland & the West Country (where our friend @sylvatica2024.bsky.social 👇is based) but there's a record from N. Scotland! Worth hunting for it, if you're in the right habitat: damp acid grassland/bogs: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Dave@sylvatica2024.bsky.social · last mo.

Ivy-leaved Bellflowers with their tiny flowers from the Bodmin Moor today for #wildflowerhour Wahlengbergia hederacea

Zigzag Clover (Trifolium medium). Never really noticed this before! Stunningly vibrant in the drizzle today.

I stepped in to help with editing this one. I loved it, but I can't really commit to doing it next year. Does anyone else fancy a shot as editor?! bsbi.org/about/people...

Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking to hear all the latest botanical news from Scotland? Check out the latest FREE issue of the BSBI's Scottish Newsletter, for articles on clubmosses, ferns, protecting Scotland's local plants, tufted saxifrage, under-recorded taxa, brambles and even the odd butterfly! bsbi.org/learn/period...

More exciting news! Our 2nd #IrishGrasslandsProject event on 18 July is a walk exploring coastal and wet grassland habitats at the amazing Sheskinmore Nature Reserve in #Donegal, on the #GreatIrishGrasslands trail🌸 Booking (essential!) opens 11 July. More info: www.eventbrite.ie/e/wildflower...

BSBI Ireland@bsbiireland.bsky.social · last mo.

Our fantastic #IrishGrasslandsProject kicks off on July 16 with a walk in Tymon Park, Dublin. And more events are to follow, all across Ireland, thanks to funding from @npwsireland.bsky.social! Watch our events page bsbi.org/take-part/ev... for info & (ESSENTIAL) booking. #GreatIrishGrasslands

Cheerful

HLK@hlkfotos.com · last mo.

Our neighbor drew faces on all the poppy heads in her front garden. #pdx

The flowers of Wood Sage look quite attractive close up. Whitsand Bay area, Cornwall today, for #wildflowerhour Teucrium scorodonia

Dunure Castle, with Oysterplant and Hare's-foot Clover 28.6.26

Portencross Castle, and coastal path 27.6.26

That's a pretty perfect garden strawberry. Satisfying.

Support band for Sierra: The Brudi Brothers. Also great. And those two dudes :)

Sierra Ferrell in Glasgow tonight. Hot, but great.

He's a beaut.

Beautiful!

BSBI Scotland@bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This ridiculously colourful boulder is plastered in two of my favourite mountain plants - Moss Campion (pink) and Cyphel (green). Ben Lawers range. Wonderful!

Last few spaces available on this Field Identification Skills Certificate (FISC) running near Aberfoyle, Scotland on Friday 26th June! Book now or miss out til next year... www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-...

The highlight of yesterday’s visit to Morgan’s Hill, Wilts, with @jeremyjem.bsky.social was undoubtedly this Common Spotted x Frog Orchid hybrid (Dactylorhiza x mixtum). A truly lovely confection! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Now all I need is the final one in the series, Close To Your Garden But Not Technically In It (Due To The Restraining Order).

Bees! Mainly on native Hedge Woundwort. It's one of my favourite plants, so I've left a somewhat large patch in the garden. Lovely to see this. *Sound on!

Opportunities to sharpen your #WildflowerID skills with top botanical trainer @ambroisebaker.bsky.social! Only 1 space left on the Poaceae (grasses) Walk he is leading for us. Snap it up quickly, you won't regret it!

Ambroise Baker@ambroisebaker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Few places left in June: • 13th Poaceae Walk @bsbibotany.bsky.social • 20-21st Botany for ecologists @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social • 24-26th Plant and habitat @teessideuni.bsky.social • July 4-5th Grass, rush and sedge (FSC) Booking links: plantsbiodiversityecosystems.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b...

If you are a 100 Plants Challenger, or a new botanist looking for some friendly, beginner-focused events to help boost your confidence and skills - and see some lovely plants - look no further! bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Contin 8th June Cupar 13th June Edinburgh 28th June Inverness 16th July